Junior DevOps Automation Engineer

£35,000 - £44,000 per annum

Permanent

Are you looking to progress your career as a DevOps Engineer? Are you looking for a role where you can improve processes that will lead to team success? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Junior DevOps Automation Engineer.

What you'll do

At Wessex Water, customer experience is at the forefront of everything we do. To help us build functional systems that improve the customer experience, we're looking for a Junior DevOps Automation Engineer to join our expanding team.

As a Junior DevOps Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for deploying product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations that meet our customers' needs. You will work with Developers and Engineers to ensure that software development follows established processes and works as intended. The Junior DevOps Automation Engineer will also work alongside our Senior Engineers. 

Duties will include:

• supporting resources for developing and managing builds, deployments, and configurations for non-production and production environments
• undertaking deployments using tools such as Azure DevOps pipelines and Octopus
• maintenance and configuration of source control environment, locally and in the cloud, predominantly Azure DevOps, although some legacy source control remains via TFS
• taking control of CI/CD Pipelines to automate and continually enhance our SSDLC, both on premise and in the Cloud
• maintaining and implementing industry best-practise for automated configuration, management and security
• participating in problem solving and troubleshooting for the assigned applications, functional areas, or projects
• integrating security scanning and testing into build and deployment pipelines, for example, Selenium, SonarQube, and conforming to OWASP standards
• collaborating with Project, Platform, Developers and Test teams to identify and resolve infrastructure, application, and testing issues
• administration of tools such as Azure DevOps, Octopus and SonarQube within the software development lifecycle
• proactively monitoring and optimising system performance and scalability for reliability.

What you'll need

You must: (or equivalent technology): 

• be familiar with Agile and SCRUM methodologies, and waterfall to a small degree
• have experience in building and deploying C# .Net applications (both Core and .Net)
• have MS SQL experience
• have knowledge of CI/CD tooling such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Octopus, TeamCity or Jenkins.

It would be desirable if you have (or equivalent technology):

• experience working in DevOps or a similar role
• experience using cloud providers, preferably Azure
• experience with branching strategies such as GitFlow and GitVersioning
• knowledge of scripting languages (particularly Bash, PowerShell and Azure CLI)
• understanding of manual and automated testing and quality practices
• understanding of managing and configuring Windows Servers, including IIS
• the ability to multi-task to support engineering on multiple projects
• experience with infrastructure as code, BICEP / ARM / Terraform
• some knowledge of containerisation (Kubernetes, Docker)
• knowledge of distributed systems architecture such as Micro Services
• knowledge of load balancing and orchestration tools such as API management
• knowledge of active Directory, Certificate services, DNS, DHCP
• Microsoft certification or similar.

What you'll receive

• Total pension contributions up to 20%.
• Career progression and professional development opportunities.
• 25 days' holiday rising to 28 with length of service.
• The opportunity to buy up to ten days' holiday and sell up to five every year.
• A healthcare package that allows you to claim back healthcare costs.
• Life assurance of up to eight times your salary.
• A new electric car in exchange for part of your gross salary, subject to conditions.
• Cashback and discounts from more than 3,000 retailers.
• One paid volunteering day each year.
• Enhanced family leave and pay arrangements.
• An interactive health and wellbeing platform.
• Support from mental health first aiders.
• A £1,000 referral fee if you recommend someone to work for us.

Who we are

We are one of the top-performing water and sewerage companies in England and Wales, serving 2.9 million people across the South West.

The work we do goes beyond providing an essential public service. We also aim to have a positive impact on the communities we serve and the natural environment.

Our people tell us Wessex Water is a great place to work, which is why so many of them stay with us! You will have the opportunity to develop and progress your career, while also receiving health and wellbeing support.

We also continue to promote diversity and inclusion – with that in mind, all applicants are welcome. We are delighted to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and are a Disability Confident Employer.

This is an exciting opportunity to join us and if you would like to be part of our journey, we would love to hear from you. Please do not hesitate to let us know about any additional support you may need.