Manager DevOps and Cloud Engineering - Azure

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a recognised partner that can get things done – from strategy to build and scale – in the service of digital business transformation.  We offer our clients the strength of strategy, experience, and engineering to bring a deep expertise to our client’s business.  And YOU can be a part of this amazing journey!

Our work and experience are in high skilled, forward thinking, and consultative digital engagements vis-à-vis long-term Support and Maintenance engagements will be done by other vendors.

Are you a Senior Engineer looking for your next career move in DevOps/Cloud Engineering?

Or are you already a Manager performing boring, mundane BAU work and looking to up your game within DevOps and Cloud?  A role where you will be challenged, where you can help global organisations realise significant improvements through engineering transformation.

At Publicis Sapient, you will have access to the best-in-industry tools and processes when it comes to engineering and delivery, moreover, our Agile, end-to-end, and outcome-based models are industry pioneers and adapted by others.

You will use your problem-solving and creative skills to design and develop infrastructure interfaces for complex business applications, contribute ideas for improvements in DevOps practices, delivering innovation through automation. We are on a mission to transform the world, and you will be instrumental in shaping how we do it with your ideas, thoughts, and solutions.

Job Description

What you will do….

Our environment and culture foster growth and present exciting opportunities to hone your skills in the industries that we support, and in business problem-solving. As part of your role as a Manager DevOps Engineering you will make the following impact:

• Deliver software products from ideas to code and from tests to operations
• Transform our clients and their businesses directly and see your ideas become reality
• Expand your collaborative methods and develop a flair for leadership
• Foster teamwork by collaborating with technical and business teams to ensure seamless coordination

Sharpen your technical skills by:

• Implementing application build and deployment infrastructure for highly available and fault tolerant applications
• Implementing and maintain DevSecOps tool chains to help mitigate security vulnerabilities early enough and automate quality gates
• Building and implementing Infrastructure as code for cloud infrastructure solutions for distributed systems and applications
• Working very closely with application development teams to understand product feature pipelines

Qualifications

What are we looking for in you?

• A background in cloud Infrastructure Engineering/DevOps, deploying and maintaining multi-tiered application architectures.
• Public cloud platforms ideally in Azure.
• Experience with the core foundational services of cloud providers (e.g. AWS) such IAM, S3, VPC, Compute, Storage, DNS and VPN, etc.
• Hands on experience in Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE) or OpenShift, Terraform, configuration management, Harness or Spinnaker or argoCD, Cloud Security, Jenkins or Azure DevOps or CircleCI.
• CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, CircleCI, CodeBuild including integration of other commonly used DevOps tooling such as SonarQube, Nexus etc.

Additionally, experience with the following will be an added advantage:

• Experience in leading a team of engineering.
• Hands on experience of at least one of programming languages such as Python, Go - follow best practice principles around clean code, and understand the impact of security and scale
• Experience in observability platforms such Elastic, New Relic and AppDynamics, etc
• Experience in integrating security testing tools such as Zaproxy, CheckMarx, Veracode, etc. as part of the DevSecOps pipelines.
• Understanding of common workflows such as Git Workflow, etc.
• Experience with integrating infrastructure test and compliance tools in the automation pipelines.
• Experience in adapting or contributing to open-source projects such as Istio, Envoy
• Understanding of cloud migration approaches (6 R framework) and experience in migrating the workloads to public cloud

Additional Information

What’s in it for you?

We have got you and your family covered with 25 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), life assurance, dental insurance, income protection, critical illness cover, private healthcare for you AND your family (pre-existing conditions included), and a pension.

We know the importance of health and wellbeing so offer you extensive retail discount offers and further reimbursement towards activities that contribute to a healthier lifestyle.

Our beautiful Turnmill offices are open to meet over complimentary barista-made coffee, and our teams are also replicating face-to-face social activities through learning languages virtually, yoga sessions, having a laugh at our online summer / winter fairs and so much more.

We are proud to actively invest in your learning through various learning platforms.