Zachary Daniels Recruitment is delighted to be working with this global leader in delivering animal health solutions with the appointment of a Principal Dev Ops Engineer to join their ever expanding business.

Job Details

Provide strategic direction for Azure DevOps practices across multiple engineering squads.
Have proven experience designing and implementing cloud architectures
Coach and mentor engineers, providing technical guidance to the Engineering teams, nurturing a collaborative and innovative environment.
Act as a design authority, ensuring that all new DevOps initiatives align with the overall strategic vision to best serve the goals of the business.
Collaborate with engineering squads to design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
Ensure design/change (DevOps) and execution is aligned and working to best practices around scalability, security, and reliability of the DevOps infrastructure.
Enable engineering teams with standardisation and knowledge sharing od DevOps resources.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement and automation.
Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in DevOps practices and Azure services.
Lead technical discussions and review sessions to ensure alignment and adherence to DevOps standards.
Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to enhance the DevOps workflow. .
We're looking for people with the following skills:

Minimum of 8 years of experience in DevOps, with at least 5 years focusing on Azure DevOps as an engineer, technical lead, architect or other related technical cloud-focused role.
Experience working with Microsoft Azure with knowledge of cloud-native services (Azure DNS, Application Gateway, Azure SQL Server, App Services, Blob Storage, Load Balancer, WAF) and best-practices for working with technology.
An understanding of technologies that underpin a DevOps approach to cloud transformation and management, including but not exclusive to, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Containerisation and Orchestration, CI/CD.
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or ARM templates.
Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
Deep knowledge of containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
Excellent understanding of networking principles (IP addressing, virtual networks, network security and networking models).
Understanding of observability and site-reliability principles (SLO's, SLI's) and working with engineering teams to improve the applications and platform.
Good understanding of SQL and working with relational databases.
Experience working in a production environment to support, operate and maintain applications.
Experience working with logging tools (e.g. Log Analytics, Datadog) and monitoring (e.g. Azure Monitor) and application performance management tools (we use New Relic).
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and guide engineering teams.
Proven track record of leading and delivering complex DevOps projects.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Relevant certifications such as Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect, or similar are a plus.
Ideally you will also have:

Some knowledge of common programming languages (Java, Javascript, Go).
An understanding of data engineering infrastructure, data processing and presentation.
Experience of Cyber Security Essentials or similar certification.
Experience in vulnerability management (e.g. Phishing, social engineering, malware etc.).
Experience of single sign-on products (e.g. Auth Zero, SAP Gigya).
Please note that this role is fully remote and we can only consider candidates currently operating within the United Kingdom.

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