We are seeking a highly skilled Dev Enablement Engineer to join our IT department in Milton Keynes. This 3-month contract role will focus on enhancing developer productivity, managing inner-sourcing processes, and implementing process improvements.
Key responsibilities:
* Maintains up-to-date knowledge of latest automation and enablement techniques and patterns.
* Introduces process automation and software tooling across the organization, providing technical expertise and shaping the solution.
* Drives automation best practices from within the Centre of Excellence, across the business.
* Key driver in the test-first development mentality and responsible for re-enforcing its role in the software development process.
* Articulates and conveys the importance of approaches like TDD, code test coverage, and utilises advanced software testing techniques and frameworks to improve visibility of these areas.
* Owns and manages end-to-end development and deployment plans to ensure the team delivers on time and to budget.
* Builds scalable and informative documentation in the form of references, guides, and code examples.
* Has a solid understanding of cloud-based solutions and how they can best be utilised.
* Establishes a common library of known components to allow developers to utilise a standard toolset when completing tasks.
Experience & skills:
* Minimum 5 years experience building, owning and maintaining automation and workflow orchestration systems.
* Experience with designing and building system integrations using APIs and middleware.
* Experience working with connected systems and deployments.
* Strong experience with Azure infrastructure, including Application Gateway, Express Routes, and API Management Service.
* Ability to interpret, discuss and contribute to architecture approaches and solution designs.
* Experience working in an Agile development team (Scrum or Kanban).
* Team-oriented, with a willingness to work as part of a collaborative environment.
* Skilled in software testing methodologies and a keen advocate of unit, integration and UI tests.
* Familiarity with pipeline integrated SAST tooling.
* Familiar with build pipeline management and extensions using YAML, Cake, and PowerShell.
* Experience with IAC using Terraform or Bicep.
* Experience with Azure as a cloud platform along with its connected supporting services.
Desirable:
* SonarQube, Snyk, Octopus Deploy, Playwright.
* Familiarity with pipeline integrated DAST tooling.
* GitHub as source code management or experience with git using Azure DevOps.
* GitHub Actions for CI/CD or experience with similar.
* Solid understanding of C# Programming.
* Experience with network routing and VNET and network security group.
Connells Group is one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK, with a network of over 1,250 branches nationwide.
**Job Summary:** Dev Enablement Engineer to enhance developer productivity, manage inner-sourcing processes, and implement process improvements in a 3-month contract role.