Azure Platform Manager

Salary:  Up to £62,000 dependent on experience

Contract Type:  Permanent – Full time

Security Level:  SC - Vetting explained - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 

Location:  Gatwick – Hybrid – UK wide candidates considered

We are the UK's aviation and aerospace regulator and recognised as a world leader in its field. Our activities are diverse, enabling the aviation industry to meet the highest safety standards, and we pride ourselves on our ability to adapt to the constantly evolving aviation environment.

Do you have a background in DevOps engineering or a similar field? Are you looking for a new role where you can develop your knowledge of the MS Azure suite to create great DevOps solutions?

The Role

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our team to develop enhancements and new solutions across our suite of applications, primarily hosted on Azure and using the Microsoft suite of products. You will work across the IT department and multiple teams to maximize the benefits of Agile, DevOps, and Lean methodologies.

This role focuses on the full life cycle development and support of new and existing solutions in our hybrid cloud environment, delivering projects and supporting development teams with DevOps technologies and processes.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Lead the implementation of consistent and reliable deployment processes across multiple products and platforms
• Own Azure DevOps architectures and designs
• Collaborate with project and delivery managers to plan work at scale and ensure smooth deployments through the CI/CD pipelines
• Serve as a subject matter expert to advise on optimal technologies
• Advocate for DevOps within the organization, working alongside the Head of Software Engineering and the Principal Developer to incorporate the best DevOps methodologies into development teams
• Stay updated with the latest technology, services, and methodologies in DevOps and beyond, bringing them into our organisation
• Support the rollout of DevSecOps within existing DevOps teams
• Manage and maintain resources deployed to Microsoft Azure

About You

You will have a background in DevOps Engineering or a similar role, cloud experience in Azure, and the ability to work with a variety of applications using different technologies.

Essential Skills

• Working knowledge of CI/CD using Azure DevOps pipelines, including YAML pipelines and automated deployments
• Experience with Azure PaaS and IaaS
• Experience working with Docker, containers, and managing/troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters
• Experience with Helm, Helm charts, releases, and repositories
• Knowledge of Azure Networking, Network Security Groups, Private Endpoints, and Application Gateway/WAF
• Proficiency with Azure operational and monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics
• Understanding of Azure AD and access management

Desirable Skills

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, or ARM templates
• Experience in secure application development
• Experience in integrating code security scanning into Azure Pipelines
• Bash/PowerShell scripting

What Can We Offer You?

This is an exciting time for our Software Engineering department as we migrate and improve our legacy systems and leverage the capabilities available in Azure. This generates opportunities to work directly with business users on new components and solutions to develop new features and product capabilities.

We’re a dedicated team that enjoys technical challenges and supports each other in developing our knowledge and skills to deliver great solutions. Our team works nationally with offices in Cardiff and Gatwick, primarily using Microsoft Teams to collaborate.

Inclusivity

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and celebrate our diversity ensuring all are backgrounds included here at the CAA. As a member of the Disability Confident scheme, applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a role with us will be guaranteed an interview.

Our Benefits

We offer a range of excellent benefits such as:

• Flexible & hybrid working arrangements available
• 28 days annual leave + public holidays (additional 5 days leave purchase scheme)
• Generous pension scheme (Up to 12% employer contribution)
• Wellbeing Room at Gatwick
• Mental Health and Suicide First Aiders
• Employee Assistance Programme, talking therapies and neurodiversity support via Occupational Health & access to Headspace for colleagues and 5 dependents
• Free onsite gym at Gatwick or discounted gym membership for London
• EV charging points
• Employee Development courses internally and via Skillsoft

Our Values
 

Do The Right Thing, Never Stop Learning, Build Collaborative Relationships, Respect Everyone – For more information please Click Here

Closing Date: Friday 27th September

Interview Date: TBC

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

No recruitment agencies please.