DevOps Engineer

In this role, you will not only support our development teams with dev testing queues but also play a crucial part in maintaining and supporting all live systems. Your expertise will ensure the seamless operation of our services, contributing to the overall efficiency and reliability of our solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage with process improvement activity, focussing on reducing excess cost and improving efficiency.
• Provide accurate estimates for projected work.
• Adhere to DevOps processes and standards, proposing new working methods, initiatives and technologies to improve the level of service provided by the team.
• Work with contemporary development practices (e.g. Scrum, BDD) and tools (e.g. ADO, Terraform, GIT).
• Collaborate with Architects and Developers to build and deploy new versions of applications to managed environments.
• Create and maintain technical documentation relating to DevOps frameworks.
• Complete impact assessments for any application change requests submitted.
• Provide input to the Release Manager for Release Scheduling.
• Provide support during go-live events as required.
• Liaise with Live Services, business areas and third parties in the investigation, resolution and escalation of problems and incidents

Experience Required:

• It is essential that you are eligible for SC clearance
• Proven experience in DevOps, with a background in Windows Engineering, Service Engineering, Unix, or Database Administration (DBA).

Tech Skills Required:

• Provisioning of environments through infrastructure as code.
• User access control (e.g. Azure AD).
• Azure Technologies (e.g. Scale Sets, AVD)
• Scripting (e.g. Powershell/BASH) backups and scheduled jobs.
• Network setup and configuration.
• Good understanding of Citrix Cloud
• Good understanding of Network provisioning.
• Good understanding of Linux
• Proficient in creating automation runbooks
• Good understanding Database Infrastructure
• Certification in AZ-104 or AZ-900 would be highly desirable

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity to learn new skills and develop further
• 23 days annual leave (rising to 27 days with time) with opportunity to buy more leave
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• Company matched pension, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave and plenty more

You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You’ll be joining a network of experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that.

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

We’re an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, which means we recruit and develop people based on their merit and passion. We’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format (such as large print or audio), or if you’d like to discuss other changes or support you might need going forward, please email Iqbal at reasonableadjustments@capita.com and we’ll get back to you. For more information about equal opportunities and process adjustments, please visit the Capita Careers website.