Are you looking for your next DevOps role? Do you have ambition to be a catalyst for change in a business which puts our customers and the social housing sector in the heart of all that we do?

Location : Work from Anywhere, a flexible blend of homeworking and work from the Housemark Hub (Coventry).

Salary  - 55000 - 60000

About us 

Housemark is the largest and UK wide member network for social housing organisations with the strategy to be the unrivalled source of housing data and insight for the UK housing sector and the leading provider of business intelligence services.

About the role

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer who will proactively contribute to the delivery of an excellent customer experience by contributing to the safety, availability and scalability of our systems and infrastructure, championing new technologies and ideas to allow us to continuously improve.  By doing this you will support the strategic direction, future growth, and competitive advantage of Housemark.

Working collaboratively with colleagues in the Customer Operations team, you will understand customer requirements and priorities alongside the art of the possible from our developers, to maintain the stability, scalability, availability, and functionality of the cloud-based infrastructure.

As the DevOps specialist, you will support the team to implement and maintain DevOps practices including continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) into Azure Cloud.

As the Azure subject matter expert, you will support and improve the existing cloud environment. Implementing a detailed understanding of the broader azure platform and networking and security features to deploy product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations that meet customer needs.

About you – your qualifications and experience

• You will be educated to degree level of have equivalent experience
• You will ideally hold a professional certification (CISSP/CISM/ISO 27001 Lead implementer or similar)
• Strong Azure Cloud Support experience
• Strong understanding and experience of supporting different Azure IaaS and PaaS services in Windows/Linux environment
• Familiar with Azure CLI, PowerShell and ARM templates
• Experience working with Azure Virtual Desktop
• Applied experience with Load Balancer, DR, backup, networking, Azure Monitor, IAM, RBAC, ABAC, Alert Management, Azure Log Analytics and Azure SQL family
• Experience with Azure Policy to standards e.g. ISO27001, NIST, CIS
• Experience of Azure Active Directory and Azure B2C
• Experience configuring and managing Azure Pipelines and with Azure DevOps as a CI/CD tool
• Awareness of ITSM frameworks (support, delivery and implementation)
• Excellent communication and organisation skills
• Demonstrable problem-solving and analytical skills
• Demonstrable willingness to keep up to date with, and apply best practices in development

The rewards

In return for your commitment and enthusiasm, you will receive a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave, excellent working conditions including the flexibility to work from anywhere, in a progressive and growing company.

How to apply

Please submit your applications as a CV and a supporting statement to jobs@housemark.co.uk

More detail about the role

Service improvement and business development

1. Implementation and configuration of Azure services for both IaaS/PaaS like Virtual machines, API Management, Storage (Blob, File, Data Lake), Databases (Azure SQL Managed Instances\databases), Containers (AKS, Azure Functions), Networking (NSG's, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway).
2. Generation of scripts and templates using Terraform for the provisioning of cloud resources.
3. Configuration of the network, connectivity and security
4. Building CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Git.
5. Monitoring and patching, security reviews and policy adherence.
6. Working collaboratively with the Information Security Manager, understand the issues identified in the vulnerability scans and/or penetration tests, taking responsibility to resolve areas of vulnerability or concern.

1. Working with third parties for operational management of services.
2. Work collaboratively with colleagues in the Customer Operations team to develop and maintain a clear understanding of customer priorities and pain points.  Leverage that understanding in each stage of product's development to promotes efficiency and contribute to our commercial success.