About the role
In your role as DevOps & Security Engineer you will make a meaningful and valued contribution from the outset. This role will provide a great opportunity to assist in the development, build automation and security processes for the in‑house developed solutions. The role involves maintaining and building CI/CD pipelines, enhancing automation test frameworks, and monitoring & improving release processes.
The role is essential in ensuring our development functions continue to be able to deliver high quality solutions in a repeatable, error‑free manner.
What you will be doing
As a trusted part of the Operations team you will be responsible for:
- Collect, analyse and document technical/operational requirements from key IMS stakeholders
- Implement automation for IMS processes
- Maintain and improve software release and deployment processes
- Knowledge share across the team with some mentoring from more senior members
- Participate in team workshops
About you
We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don’t tick every box, if you’re excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we’re looking for, then please apply, regardless of whether you meet all the requirements outlined in this profile.
To be successful in the role you will have:
Experience expected
- Azure DevOps Pipelines and CI / CD
- Atlassian Confluence, Jira and other associated products
- Languages: PowerShell / Python / C# / SQL
Desirable experience
- Cloud deployments to Microsoft products (Fabric, Synapse, Azure) or other
- Cloud deployments to Snowflake
- Testing frameworks & Testing tools (Xray, Zephyr etc.)
- Power BI Reporting and deployments
- Application security tools (SonarQube, GitHub Security etc.)
- Scheduling Systems (preferably JAMS)
- Expected to produce clear, concise, maintainable code.
- Ability to share knowledge and relevant technical experience.
Why join us?
How we will reward you
- Great starting salary
- Generous annual leave package
- Access to a high quality pension scheme provided through Universities Superannuation Scheme
- Supportive people policies (including enhanced occupational sickness pay and family friendly pay)
- Financial contributions towards your personal development to help you maintain your physical and mental wellbeing
- Access to a range of health and wellbeing services i.e., private healthcare, discounted gym membership
- Learning and development opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and talent
- Employee Volunteer Days to support the communities where you work and live
- Cycle to Work Scheme
Our culture
Our people are what makes us different. We work together to create a diverse and inclusive culture that embraces individuality, where people are welcomed and feel comfortable in the knowledge that they can be themselves. We are active members of:
- Social Mobility Pledge
- Menopause Workplace Pledge
- Actively support Women in Tech
- Annual Intern programme supporting individuals to gain work experience.
About us
Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) was established in 1974 as the principal pension scheme for universities and higher education institutions in the UK. We work with around 330 employers to help build a secure financial future for more than 500,000 members and their families. We are one of the largest pension schemes in the UK, with total assets of around £90.8bn (at 31 March 2022). To find out more, please visit https://www.uss.co.uk
USSIM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We strive to ensure our recruitment process is as flexible and inclusive as possible so we can attract diverse candidates and recruit the best talent. We want all candidates to perform at their best during the recruitment process, so if you need any reasonable adjustments or if there is anything we can do to help support you through your recruitment journey please let us know by contacting resourcing@uss.co.uk.
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