DevOps Automation Engineer

Ruby / Powershell / Unix and BASH / Jira / Bamboo / Bitbucket / Confluence / Sonar / Eggplant

DevOps Automation Engineer- Manchester

A successful global law firm is looking for a DevOps Automation Engineer for its central Manchester office. Enjoying recent and ongoing transformation and growth in its IT Function, involving the formation of multiple Scrum Teams and a platform for their support, this role will be focused on the development, maintenance and improvement of this support platform.

Main Role Requirements

• Standardising coding practises and developing environment supporting scripts
• Monitoring and minimising outages of the support platform to ensure availability 24/7 and optimum performance.
• Maintaining consistently high standards of development and driving improvements to quality and flow of product development
• The creation of standards and best practice to ensure consistent use of the support platform.
• Reviewing new projects to understand their requirements and ensure integration into the support platform.
• Working closely with the team on developing Infrastructure as code and ensuring Configuration Management practices are followed.
• Contribution to documentation production and configuration, content and layout testing and assisting in software implementation.
• Determining and running test cycles/scripts etc for web apps
• Maintaining a current Toolchain, ensuring seamless, high quality upgrades.

SUMMARY

• Job title: DevOps Automation Engineer
• Location: Manchester
• Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 - Guide only
• Other Benefits: Private Medical / Income Protection / Critical illness Pension. 26 days holiday plus other benefits eg discounted gym
• Previous Experience: Previous experience working in an Agile and DevOps process environment is regarded as a key requirement with understanding of waterfall and agile methodologies.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE - KEY REQUIREMENTS

Due to the infrastructure in place this role will require an individual with significant experience of:

• RedHat/Linux admin
• Programming in Ruby / Powershell / Unix and BASH scripting.
• Solid Release Management using Puppet (or similar) and server side and distributed software management.
• Using toolchains, supporting and developing with the following applications: Jira, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence,Sonar, Eggplant.
• Test cycles/unit tests/test scripts for web applications.
• Puppet \ Chef \ Ansible or VSTS

THE FIRM

This is a phenomenally successful Law firm on an international scale which has adopted a forward-thinking approach to IT and the role it will serve the legal industry. As such it is seen very much as a pace-setter in Legal tech and presents an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and hard-working individual who wants to be part of a Firm that is at the forefront of its industry.