DevOps Engineer

/ Position: DevOps Engineer

/ Location: Farnborough HQ

/ Working Hours: Full-Time, 40 Hours per week

Are you a DevOps Engineer with Azure Experience who wants to become an AKS guru?

myairops offers a unique and exciting opportunity to an individual that has a good understanding of cloud infrastructure as well as a general understanding of virtualisation, containerisation and scripting. If you are keen to learn and want to become an expert in Azure Cloud technologies and Kubernetes, then this opportunity is for you!

Within the first year, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to upskill through company sponsorship to become a certified Azure Cloud DevOps professional and Kubernetes expert. We adopt an approach to use a combination of on-the-job training and experience mixed with professionally provided training delivered via residential training providers offering a blend of classroom and virtual learning to ensure you are equipped to be able to succeed in your role. Providing access to some of the best and newest technologies, myairops can be the next step to turbo charge your DevOps career!

myairops is a fast-growing technology business that provides specialist SaaS software to the aviation industry. As a scale up business we are on-boarding customers every month as part of our global infrastructure solution. As an organisation that takes cyber security and data privacy very seriously the DevOps team is also exposed to some of the latest technologies available within the Azure cloud technology stack supporting networking, event driven microservices, serverless computing, containerisation, SQL structured database management, unstructured no-sql data stores, business analytics and deployment by code.

We are looking for an individual who has experience with scripting and software deployment in cloud infrastructure; you do not need to be an expert in AKS, Helm, Docker and others, but this would be helpful. If you can demonstrate a sound understanding of the concepts of containerisation and a desire to learn with a positive attitude, then we want to hear from you!

/ About us:

We’re a friendly team of experts, optimists, big-thinkers and problem-solvers. myairops is a leader of SaaS products to the aviation industry with customers across the globe with diverse challenges including corporate flight departments, brokers, medical providers, military and business aviation operators. Solutions are provided through innovative web delivered software and connected mobile applications.

/ About the role:

The DevOps Engineer will work across the myairops Azure infrastructure, including scheduling and running maintenance, troubleshooting production issues, and evolving the platform with deployments, monitoring and optimisation.

This role will best suit individuals who enjoy collaborative working in an office environment. You will work closely with our team, who are friendly, helpful and passionate about what we do, as well as our experienced DevOps Team Lead, who will continuously support your development and growth. We are looking for someone who shares the same values and will support the building of our DevOps culture and capabilities.

/ Responsibilities:

• Automate manual processes using Azure DevOps pipelines and Power Automate to enable self-service for engineering and customer success.
• Schedule & monitor cloud infrastructure and customer environment upgrades and deployments.
• Work as part of cross functional, engineering project team to ensure quality from requirements definition through to delivery.
• Represent the DevOps team and be a point of contact to answer questions relating to DevOps, Azure and cloud infrastructure.
• Create and maintain build and deployment automation scripts.
• Create and maintain Kubernetes based applications, using Helm, Docker and similar cloud native tools
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, using configuration as code
• Reduce software delivery friction.
• Contributing to a team culture committed to effective communication, respect, values and supporting each other to meet individual and common goals.
• Engaging with stakeholders across the team, using a pragmatic approach to achieve sign off, without compromising on stability and/or defined requirements.

/ Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

Essential

• Automate manual processes using Azure DevOps pipelines and Power Automate to enable self-service for engineering and customer success.
• Schedule & monitor cloud infrastructure and customer environment upgrades and deployments.
• Work as part of cross functional, engineering project team to ensure quality from requirements definition through to delivery.
• Represent the DevOps team and be a point of contact to answer questions relating to DevOps, Azure and cloud infrastructure.
• Create and maintain build and deployment automation scripts.
• Create and maintain Kubernetes based applications, using Helm, Docker and similar cloud native tools
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, using configuration as code
• Reduce software delivery friction.
• Contributing to a team culture committed to effective communication, respect, values and supporting each other to meet individual and common goals.
• Engaging with stakeholders across the team, using a pragmatic approach to achieve sign off, without compromising on stability and/or defined requirements.

Advantageous

• Automate manual processes using Azure DevOps pipelines and Power Automate to enable self-service for engineering and customer success.
• Schedule & monitor cloud infrastructure and customer environment upgrades and deployments.
• Work as part of cross functional, engineering project team to ensure quality from requirements definition through to delivery.
• Represent the DevOps team and be a point of contact to answer questions relating to DevOps, Azure and cloud infrastructure.
• Create and maintain build and deployment automation scripts.
• Create and maintain Kubernetes based applications, using Helm, Docker and similar cloud native tools
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, using configuration as code
• Reduce software delivery friction.
• Contributing to a team culture committed to effective communication, respect, values and supporting each other to meet individual and common goals.
• Engaging with stakeholders across the team, using a pragmatic approach to achieve sign off, without compromising on stability and/or defined requirements.

/ In addition to a Competitive Salary, we will offer you:

• Investment in Training, Qualifications and Professional Development
• Competitive Group Pension Scheme
• Comprehensive Life Assurance *
• Comprehensive Income Protection *
• Comprehensive Travel Insurance *
• Comprehensive Private Healthcare (after successful passing of probation) *
• Electric Car Scheme
• Free Car Parking
• Discounts at popular Retailers
• 2 Paid Volunteering Days each calendar year (subject to line manager approval)

*(Subject to insurance underwriting)

Due to the volume of applications received, only candidates selected for interview will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 20 working days then your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.