Base Location: Reading, Havant, Cardiff, Dublin, Glasgow, and Perth
Salary: £61,620 - £72,592 + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.
Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible working options available
The Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll be part of ECS, providing data and application solutions to support the Enterprise and BEMS teams. You’ll work in an Agile team to develop Azure and Power Platform solutions, build, and use machine learning models, and help shape systems that respond to data in real time. You’ll also contribute to delivering AI and automation initiatives as part of the team.
You will
- Demonstrate the ability to analyse complex problems and design effective solutions, showcasing strong analytical and design skills.
- Have a proven track record of delivering scaled end-to-end complex solutions, including designing, building, testing, automating, and monitoring using a modern tech stack in a production environment.
- Gain hands-on experience with business-critical systems in medium to large organisations, ensuring reliability and performance in high-stakes environments.
- Possess extensive experience in environments that follow DevOps principles, with a strong working knowledge of DevOps tools to streamline development and operations processes.
- Work closely with the Product Owner, Delivery Manager, and stakeholders to analyse requirements and deliver comprehensive business solutions.
You have
- Proven expertise in developing robust and scalable applications using C#.net, Core.net, RESTful or GraphQL, Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI . A degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience) is preferred.
- Extensive .NET development background with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure cloud services, specifically building serverless solutions with Azure Functions, orchestrating integrations with Azure Service Bus and Logic Apps.
- Experience in Build & Release Management, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), ideally using Azure DevOps (pipelines, repos, releases) to release software to production and using monitoring tools to support the releases.
- Strong proficiency in building serverless applications and integrating various services using Azure Function Apps, Cosmos DB, and SQL Server Relational Database.
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration using Docker, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), ensuring efficient and scalable deployment of applications.
About SSE
SSE has a bold ambition – to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're building the world's largest offshore wind farm. Transforming the grid to provide greener electricity for millions of people and investing over £20 billion in homegrown energy, with £20 billion more in the pipeline.
Our IT division powers growth across all SSE business areas by making sure we have the systems, software and security needed to take the lead in a low carbon world. They provide expertise, advice and day-to-day support in emerging technologies, data and analytics, cyber security and more.
Flexible benefits to fit your life
Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.
Work with an equal opportunity employer
SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact David.brickell@sse.com / 01738 275 846 to discuss how we can support you.
We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.
Ready to apply?
Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with SSE, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.
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