DevOps Engineer

This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-skilled agile team in the Customer value stream within IT Delivery. You will be part of the platform team supporting applications which help customers to service their Admiral products. 

The Customer Mid-Level Engineer will be responsible for maintaining our cloud-based infrastructure along with the CI/CD Pipelines. You will also provide support to other engineering teams across Admiral’s value streams.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, inquisitive and experienced individual, who adopts a collaborative mindset and can think creatively to solve problems and meet technical requirements. You must have a keen interest and awareness of cloud engineering and related concepts and be ready to research, evaluate and learn new tools, technologies and patterns as required.

Main Duties

You will be working in our Customer Spoke platform engineering team, which is responsible for provisioning and maintaining the platform supporting the Agile Release Trains in the Value Stream under the guidance of Senior Engineers, supporting the software engineers by automating aspects of the SDLC through CI/CD and contributing to the delivery of the DevOps and Cloud capability’s strategy.

As part of this your main duties will comprise of:

• Delivering Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to meet the Value Streams requirements.
• Applying specific quality standards to all tasks undertaken to ensure that deliverables are accurate and complete.
• Documenting all work using required standards, methods, and tools.
• Taking an automation first approach to CI/CD.
• Having a passion for learning and demonstrating best practices for Cloud Engineering.
• Applying agreed standards and tools as required, to achieve a well-engineered result.
• Applying agreed standards and tools as required.
• Supporting and maintaining existing solutions and identifying/remediating technical debt.
• Contributing to improvements of our technical excellence and ways of working within Squad, Chapter and Guild forums.
• Reviews own and other engineers’ code/work, ensuring adherence to standards.
• Provide advice and support on Cloud Engineering when required.
• Ensuring deliverables adhere to our alerting, monitoring, and logging strategy.

This is not a full definition of the role but covers the main aspects and drivers for success.

While this is a largely remote role, the successful candidate will need to be based in the UK.

Experience Required

Essential:

• Experience of managing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform/Terragrunt.
• Experience working with GCP.
• Experience in automation scripting and programming languages.
• Experience of CI/CD concepts and usage of tools such as Jenkins/Azure DevOps.
• Experience or understanding of GKE.
• Experience of version control systems such as Git.
• Understanding of Agile Scrum methodology and practices.

Desirable:

• Experience using Azure DevOps for CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience or understanding of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) tools and technologies, including Cloud Storage, Cloud.
• Experience working with MemoryStore, Networking, Secret Manager, IAM.
• Experience with one or more programming languages (for example, Python, Bash, Ruby, Java or Go).
• Experience or understanding of tooling such as JFrog Xray.
• Understanding of Agile Scrum methodology and practices.
• Understanding of Cloud and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
• Understanding of networking concepts.
• Understanding or experience of security best practices in the cloud and cloud security tooling such as Checkov or Nexus IQ.

Location

For Hybrid workers (within a 50-mile radius of our Cardiff HQ) there is an expectation to work from the office twice a month.  For remote workers (outside of a 50-mile radius of our Cardiff HQ) there is an expectation to attend the office a handful of times a year when required (i.e big meetings, workshops etc).

Interview Process

There will be an online test and a MS Teams interview.

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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