DevOps engineer

The Senior DevOps Engineer delivers and integrates software to form a complete DevOps tool chain and is responsible for planning and designing large groups of stories, developing an effective DevOps tool chain to enable product delivery, provides coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues and ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available, have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems, own and be responsible for the overall delivery of work at any scale, a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for and leading the onboarding of specific systems.

• Develops effective DevOps toolchains to enable product delivery, assure and implement deployment strategies and resolve issues to ensure services are repeatable, scalable, resilient and highly available.
• Lead the sharing of knowledge, documentation and good practice within the team and with related/interested teams and groups to foster innovation, promote continuous learning and growth
• Identify and resolve complex issues preventing delivery or continuation of system support activities to achieve service level agreements (SLAs).
• Design and lead the tactics for building reusable templates and shared services and own the development of medium-long term strategies for product lines within your Functional and Professional Communities.
• Lead one or more system's support providing technical leadership and guidance, creating a DevOps culture and implementing automation best practices.
• Participate in meetings / delivery events and follow processes defined for their team to ensure quality of work and efficiency of the team.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior developers or peers to foster their professional growth, enhance their technical skills, and instil best practices in software development.
• Provide development expertise and insight to support the effective evaluation of new technologies.
• Contribute to the development plans, forecasts and development estimates on software applications, to ensure projects can be planned in a consistent and timely fashion.
• Perform detailed reviews on code developed by peers to improve code quality, knowledge sharing and consistency.

• Detailed knowledge of Azure cloud-based systems and resources.
• Detailed knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation tools.
• Detailed knowledge with configuration management tools.
• Detailed knowledge with CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
• Detailed knowledge with Agile frameworks including Scrum and Kanban.
• Detailed knowledge with Git version control and branching strategies, e.g. trunk-based development, gitflow.
• Detailed knowledge of scripting languages such as PowerShell.
• Broad knowledge of cloud networking including VPC, subnets, security groups, peering, CIDR.
• Detailed knowledge of SQL Server RDBMS.
• Some C#/SQL Development experience is essential.
• Detailed experience with automation and creating system & process efficiencies.
• Detailed experience in driving issue resolution and root cause identification.
• Broad experience with docker or similar containerization tool.
• Broad experience with appropriate CI/CD and deployment tools such as Azure DevOps
• Detailed experience with static code analysis & security scanning pipelines and associated tooling.
• Expert experience designing and implementing centralised monitoring solutions including logging, monitoring, alerting.
• Experience with automated testing.
• Experience of solution trade-offs such as cost, scope, timescale, and balance between long-term strategic and short-term pragmatic considerations.
• Broad experience of a major programming language such as C#
• Detailed Experience of maintaining and monitoring performance
• Будет плюсом: Experience of working with large scale/high-performance, on-premise, back-office systems is highly desirable

• Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.
• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel