Location

Flexible (UK)

Overview

System C developers impact millions of people every day through our range of healthcare software systems. Used extensively throughout the NHS, you might be wondering why you have never heard of us – we pay far more attention to our software delivering value than shouting about our latest contracts.

We are looking for a talented and experienced DevOps architect to join our Architecture team.

The person we are looking for will need to have 2+ years of commercial experience with Azure, who can demonstrate a real passion for cloud architecture, with a flexible and creative attitude, good communication skills and a strong work ethic.

Working within an existing team that is focused on creating a scalable and resilient cloud hosting model, the individual will have a workload covering (but not limited to):

• Developing and maintaining Azure DevOps pipelines
• Automation of infrastructure and software rollout
• Performance analysis and tuning
• Security reviews and risk mitigation
• Maintaining high availability of services
• Keeping up to date with emerging technologies and advising how they can be used to improve the existing architecture

Personal attributes

• Able to work well as an individual and as part of a team
• Take part in architectural discussions with technical / non-technical team members
• Able to self-manage and self-motivate
• An eye for detail and a desire to adhere to best practices
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills
• Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Have a desire to keep up with the latest tools and techniques

Experience and skills required:

• Understanding of cloud architecture concepts and best practises
• Experience with building resilient and fault tolerant solutions
• Building secure networked solutions
• Proven experience with Azure DevOps
• A thorough understanding of Azure components. Key areas:
  
  • AKS (scaling, resilience, management, security, monitoring and telemetry)
  • Service Endpoints and Private Links
  • Networking (Azure CNI)
  • Containerisation

Advantageous:

• Nginx
• Solid understanding of HELM & Powershell
• Blue/Green deployments via AKS
• Infrastructure as Code/ARM templates
• Bash/Powershell/Azure CLI
• Threat modelling
• Azure SQL
  
  • Strategies for high availability and disaster recovery
  • Monitoring/scaling/automation
  • Data factory

Applications

Please apply in writing, sending a covering letter & CV to hrrecruitment@systemc.com