Azure Devops Engineer

Introduction
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:
• Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here
• A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, 1 month paid paternity leave, 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday, a gym discount scheme, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Azure DevOps Engineer, you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements
into the design and development of customised systems in an agile environment. You will
work with various projects and clients, working towards client specifications. You will have a
real passion for the philosophy of DevOps which they'll be able to use to their advantage and
deliver value for our clients.

Your primary responsibilities include:
Your role will involve designing and deploying solutions to the cloud which will
allow automatic provisioning and management of environments, the capability to
continuously integrate and containerisation functionality and the automation of
testing.

As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Azure DevOps Expertise: Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps tools.

• GitHub Integration: Configure GitHub Actions and workflows for source control, automated builds, testing, and deployments.

• Application Lifecycle Management (ALM): Manage and optimize ALM processes, including version control, branching strategies, and release management.

• Monitoring and Logging: Implement monitoring solutions using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics.

• Security Practices: Enforce DevSecOps principles, including integrating security testing into CI/CD pipelines and managing secrets with tools like Azure Key Vault.

• Collaborative Tools: Work with teams to establish best practices in Git workflows, Agile methodologies, and project tracking using Azure Boards or GitHub Projects.

• Cloud Integration: Manage and optimize Azure services, including App Services, Functions, and Storage, as part of deployment pipelines.

• Performance Optimization: Troubleshoot and optimize CI/CD processes for faster and more reliable deployments.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with multi-cloud environments

• Familiarity with Azure Policy and governance for compliance

• Knowledge of YAML pipelines and custom extensions in Azure DevOps

• Hands-on experience with deployments for zero-downtime releases

• Expertise in incident management and root cause analysis for pipeline failures