Principal DevOps Engineer

About Solidsoft Reply:

Solidsoft Reply is the Reply Group company specialised in developing digital healthcare solutions for patient safety and closed-loop medicine management. We partner with Healthcare and Industry, helping our customers succeed through our expertise in designing and implementing innovative solutions, and through our continued commitment and investment in Microsoft technologies and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. We are a published thought leader and deliver software and services via our team of highly skilled and competent people. www.solidsoft.reply.com

Role Overview:

As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will join a successful Microsoft Gold Partner and accredited Microsoft Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) within a multidisciplinary development team. You will lead the DevOps team, taking responsibility for defining and implementing the most suitable tools, infrastructure, and build and release processes to support development activities. Working closely with developers, project managers, and Operations, you will drive best practice techniques in Azure to ensure successful delivery of new functionality into production while maintaining effective cost control. You will also identify process improvements, ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements, manage certificate lifecycles, resolve infrastructure-related issues, and mentor junior DevOps team members.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and take full ownership of ADO administration, including repository creation, management, and ongoing maintenance
• Own and manage build and release processes across both test and live environments
• Create and maintain ARM templates and YAML scripts to support deployment activities
• Define and manage lifecycle processes, including release and branching strategies
• Maintain full ownership of build and release definitions, runbooks, risk analysis, and supporting documentation for integration and production environments
• Administer Azure services, including VMs, App Services, networking, storage, monitoring, and security components
• Perform PowerShell scripting for Azure resource administration and automation
• Manage SQL and Active Directory environments, including users, roles, permissions, policies, and certificate security

About the Candidate:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in a related field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a DevOps role
• Strong expertise in Azure services and infrastructure configuration
• Expert-level experience in ADO administration, including repositories, build and release processes, and lifecycle management
• Proficiency in PowerShell scripting for Azure resource administration
• Excellent communication skills

Reply is an Equal Opportunities Employer and committed to embracing diversity in the workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, identity, pregnancy, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, medical history, skin colour, marital status or parental status or any other characteristic protected by the Law.

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