Senior DevOps Engineer
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SSE has big ambitions to be a leading energy company in a low carbon world. Following our commitment to invest £20.5 billion in low carbon projects to 2027, we have significant growth plans and are well on our way to achieving our ambition to build a world that's more sustainable and inclusive for you, your family, the community you live in and for generations to come.
Join us on our journey to net zero and help us power change.
About the Role
Base Location: Reading, Havant or Perth
Salary: £58,630 - £68,098 + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.
Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available
As a DevOps Engineer, you'll join a team of developers working in Agile practices to digitise SSE Energy Markets. Your knowledge and influence will facilitate the ongoing maintenance and development of our core applications. You will support and advise the Advanced Analytics delivery team in best practice solutions to deliver Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines and activities.
Key responsibilities for this role will include:
- Fully conversant with Agile and DevOps development methodology and concepts as applied to data driven analytics projects. Including CI/CD Coding, security testing best practice and standards.
- Designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring andsupportingsignificantcomponents withinamoderndigital service platform pipeline across production and near production environments.
- Managing the release and change management processes required to implement technical changes to our core applications via modernContinuous Deliveryprocessesfor releasing software to production.
- Managing major IT incidents to resolution within defined SLAs and utilising problem management to avoid repeat occurrences.
- Join a standbysupport rota (1 in 4).
What do I need?
To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:
- Multiple Agile environment full SDLC under your belt from a DevOps Engineering perspective with a preference for building applications with Azure experience or other DevOps tools such as Github.
- Experience in deployments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Terraform and ARM templates.
- Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages (C#, Java, Python, C++, Ruby, Shell).
- Experience of troubleshooting cloud integrations (Azure Web Apps, Azure Function Apps, Azure Service Bus, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Front Door, Azure Key Vault, Databricks, SQL DB, Tableau) andMonitoring tools to support the releases (Azure monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics).
About our Business
SSE IT underpins the technology needs of all the different businesses that make up the SSE group. From emerging technologies to data and analytics to cyber security - we power SSE's growth and enable it to generate value, while keeping it secure. As a trusted business partner that helps SSE lead in a low carbon world, we are proud of our service. Working for SSE IT is all about equipping SSE for now and the future.
What's in it for you?
We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.
As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments you need during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE. Search for ' Inclusion & Diversity at SSE ' to find out more.
Further actions
All applications should be made online, and I'll be back in touch after the vacancy closing date to let you know the outcome.
If you would like to discuss any working flexibly requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact David on David.Brickell@sse.com / 01738 275846.
Before commencing your role with SSE, you'll need to complete our pre-employment screening process. This will consist of a criminality and credit check.
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