At Simmons & Simmons LLP, our staff and our clients are at the forefront of everything we do. To continue to build on this foundation and to promote our successful data strategy, we are recruiting a talented and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Platforms team working with our DevOps Engineers.
You’ll be responsible for deploying solutions, identifying production issues and implementing cloud integrations to meet our legal needs, while automating wherever possible through code to continuously improve efficiency.
As a member of such a dynamic team, you should be an effective communicator and a resilient, resourceful person. Ideally conversant with the ideas contained in appropriate best practice processes and documentation frameworks, such as ITIL. You should also be able to work independently and be self-motivated.
What will you do:
1. Demonstrate leadership qualities towards delivering our cloud strategy, with a strong understanding of DevOps principles and experience of working in either DevOps or iterative development culture.
2. Build, design, deploy, maintain and lead the implementation of Cloud solutions across the public cloud offering using infrastructure as code (pipeline and Bicep deployment).
3. Participate in technology evaluation and reengineering teams to support strategy-definition and continuous process improvement activities.
4. Contribute to increasing operational efficiency with FinOps, helping to bring overall cloud cost under control.
5. Implement and contribute to best practices for cloud security, compliance, and disaster recovery.
6. Implement and refine cloud future state architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices.
7. Act as a technical project lead around further software-defined services and offerings.
8. Develop, enhance, and maintain automation of cloud enablement tools.
9. Recognize and resolve all business issues and impact.
10. Assess urgency of issues and facilitate follow-up and resolution accordingly including service quality initiatives to support a “five nines” product availability environment.
11. Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required; maintain cloud environmental and monitoring resources.
12. Participate in the design, implementation, and management of workload automation initiatives.
13. Adhere to firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and familiarity with ITIL or other formalized IT operations foundations.
14. Maintain all operational documentation, manuals, policies and procedures kept in the Wiki.
15. Identify, suggest and action any continual improvements, enhancements and benefits towards our cloud technologies, specifically: cost management (TCO), optimization and security hardening.
16. Collaborate with internal network team, security team and CISO to ensure security posture is well maintained and remains compliant.
What we are looking for:
1. Excellent knowledge and proven experience implementing continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) tools, including pipeline design and administration.
2. Experience of working with infrastructure as code, Bicep, ARM or Terraform. Knowledge of Azure DevOps, specifically Pipelines and Version control (Git).
3. Good understanding of Azure networking, good knowledge of VNETs, VWAN, Express Route and Virtual Network Gateways, (P2S and S2S), Hub & Spoke Network Topology, VPN Failover.
4. Good knowledge of Application Gateways, Load Balancer, Azure Firewall and Front Door.
5. Good Understanding of Azure Security Principles, including Managed Identities, Key Vault, Conditional Access and Azure Security Centre.
6. Good Knowledge of Azure Compute, Storage, Webapps, Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery.
7. Good Knowledge of Databases and, ideally, SQL.
8. Problem-solving attitude.
9. Collaborative team spirit.
10. Motivational technical leadership.
Here at Simmons & Simmons:
Simmons & Simmons is a place where dynamic minds thrive. Our culture is built on work that matters, you will work on inspirational and thought-provoking projects, using your influence to create positive impact for our clients, society and the planet.
Some key information:
We offer a competitive package including bonuses dependent on role/level, private medical insurance and pension contribution.
Our global skills academy provides our people, regardless of their role and location, with excellent learning opportunities (including live workshops, podcasts, short videos and practical learning experiences).
We have adopted a hybrid working approach with a requirement for a minimum of three days in the office with flexibility dependent on role/team/client demands.
Equal opportunities:
We are committed to fostering equality, diversity and inclusion within our firm and to ensuring equal employment opportunities. We believe that this commitment creates a vibrant and rewarding work environment.
If you’re interested in finding out more about this position, please contact the Recruitment Team.
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