DevOps Lead Developer: We have an exciting opportunity for a DevOps Lead Developer to join our IT Development Team.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Developer to provide practical expertise and technical guidance to support our CI/CD processes. You will have 2+ years' experience with MS Azure and Azure DevOps, Kubernetes and Kubeless, Docker, HELM and associated Azure CI/CD pipeline technology.

Whilst the focus of this role is firmly on cloud technologies, the remit extends to include on premise servers and deployments, collaborating with colleagues in the technical team. You will be part of our Delivery Team (which includes business stakeholders, Project and Product Scrum Teams), adding value to the continuous delivery and agile practices at Ageas through collaboration and effective communication.

The role can be based from our Bournemouth or Eastleigh offices with an element of remote working.

Main Responsibilities as DevOps Lead Developer:

• Build, upgrade and improve our development, test and production environments
• Manage and develop efficient continuous build and delivery pipelines
• Monitor hardware and application environments and troubleshoot issues to ensure application performance, security and resilience
• Mentor our Application Developers so they can also support our CI/CD and DevOps processes
• Build effective relationships with the wider business to help shape a culture of continuous improvement and continuous delivery
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills; diplomatic, able to explain complex IT concepts in simple terms and recognise the importance of providing regular updates to stakeholders
• Maintain an awareness of industry developments and highlight those which may be of benefit to Ageas
• Recognise the standards and controls required in a financial services organisation or other regulated environment

Skills and experience you need as DevOps Lead Developer

As DevOps Lead Developer, you will enjoy:

• Working with others, co-operating, having open discussions and achieving a common goal
• Sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm for continuous improvement and delivery to help spread the DevOps culture, skills, tools and practices through Ageas
• Using your initiative to research, suggest and apply new ideas, practices and tools to improve our cloud set up, release strategy and ways of working
• Being well-organised; controlling and scheduling the workload to successfully meet deadlines for multiple concurrent projects and SLAs for production activities
• Delivering solutions at pace and to a high standard, showing a willingness to put in extra effort to meet business critical deadlines
• Finding and solving the root cause of issues, in production and non-production systems

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the DevOps Lead Developer role based in Bournemouth:

• A competitive pension for which Ageas will pay twice the amount.
• Generous amount of holidays with the option to buy up to 5 additional days.
• Annual Salary review.
• Discretionary annual bonus based on personal and company performance.
• Life assurance of 4 x salary with the option to flex up.
• Return to work programme scheme.
• Flexible benefits package (private medical insurance, health and dental plans, free life assurance policy, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme as well as discounts with a wide range of retailers through our partner Perkz.com).