Azure DevOps Engineer

Amber Labs
At Amber Labs, we are a cutting-edge UK and European technology consultancy that prioritises empowering autonomy, promoting experimentation, and facilitating rapid learning to provide exceptional value to our clients. Our company culture is centred around collaboration, where all colleagues, regardless of their role, work together to minimise risk and shorten delivery times. Our team consists of highly-skilled cross-functional consultants, analysts, and support staff. Our clients have the opportunity to earn R&D credits that can be used towards our areas of expertise: Data, Governance, and Cloud Engineering, allowing us to drive customer-focused innovation. Our work extends across both the public and private sectors, providing our colleagues with a diverse and interesting landscape of experience. Amber Labs was founded on three key principles: 1. A people-first internal culture, with diverse investments and exciting opportunities for our team, and a partnership structure that ensures everyone has a chance to share in the success of the company. 2. Constant iteration to identify opportunities to develop artifacts, accelerators, and automation solutions that allow for rapid deployment of highly technical cloud or on-premises solutions for our clients. 3. Consistent investment in our ADM (Amber Labs Delivery Methodology, underpinned by Agile Methodology) to ensure maximum velocity, quality, and value. With demand for our services at an all-time high and continuous growth in our market sectors, we are embarking on a major recruitment drive. We are eager to recruit a talented Azure DevOps Engineer to join our Digital Practice and one of our project delivery teams. We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Azure DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic and innovative team. As an Azure DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Microsoft Azure DevOps. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to automate and streamline our software delivery processes, ensuring efficiency, reliability, and scalability. This role at Amber Labs is a permanent position, and all employees are required to meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Please be advised that, at this time, we are unable to consider candidates who require sponsorship or hold a visa of any type. Key Responsibilities: Strong working experience with Azure DevOps, demonstrating proficiency in utilizing its features and functionalities. Ability to create and modify CI-CD pipelines, ensuring efficient and automated software deployment processes. Proficiency in creating automated code scanning using pipelines, ensuring code quality and security standards are met. In-depth knowledge of Azure technologies such as Cosmos DB, Blob Storages, Web Apps, and Azure Synapse. Strong automation skills using ARM templates and Bicep, enabling streamlined infrastructure provisioning and management. Deep understanding of Azure computing, storage, logging and monitoring, auditing, and security services. Experience with running deployments, updating Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), investigating errors, and collaborating with central support teams. Provide technical guidance and support to development teams for Azure DevOps-related tasks and best practices. Key Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field / equivalent. Microsoft Azure certifications, such as Azure DevOps Engineer Expert or Azure Solutions Architect. Understanding of blue-green implementation, facilitating smooth and efficient deployment strategies. Experience in Agile project delivery, working within iterative and collaborative development environments. Proficiency in Azure DevOps, including experience in building and maintaining Azure YAML pipelines and Bicep templates. Familiarity with deploying Web Apps, Cosmos DB, Storage Accounts, Synapse, and other supporting infrastructure. PowerShell experience would be an asset, facilitating automation and scripting tasks. Azure Data Engineer experience, including building and maintaining Azure Synapse Pipelines and Data Flows.Proficiency in C# and Spark would be beneficial for data engineering tasks. Diversity & Inclusion: Here at Amber Labs, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace for all. Our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion includes: Valuing the unique experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds of all employees and creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed, respected, and valued. Prohibiting all forms of harassment, bullying, discrimination, and victimisation and promoting a culture of dignity and respect for all. Educating all new hires on our Diversity and Inclusion policies and ensuring they are aware of their rights and responsibilities to create a safe and inclusive workplace. By taking these steps, we are dedicated to building a workplace that reflects and celebrates the diversity of our employees and communities. What Happens Next? Our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch to advise you on the next steps. We have a two-stage interview process for most of our consultants. In certain cases, we may include a third and final stage, which is a conversation with the company Partners. This will only be considered if deemed necessary