Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

Job title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Department: Onyx

Location: Homebased within the U.K.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: Competitive

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to be part of our success story.

Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain's fastest-growing private companies. Great career development opportunities - grow with us.

About the role

Onyx BMS is an end-to-end, next-generation Bodyshop Management System, meticulously designed by repair professionals for automotive repair experts. As part of Activate Group, Onyx BMS leverages the resources and reach of one of the UK's leading accident management providers, serving tens of thousands of motor claims every year for top insurers, brokers, and fleet operators. Onyx BMS empowers repair businesses of every size to deliver seamless operations through centralised, cloud-based multi-site management, advanced automations, and real-time data insights, offering next-generation solutions for bodyshops and vehicle repair networks.

You, your role and your impact

• You are accountable and lead by example
• You will be a trusted partner of all Onyx teams and in time a Product SME
• You invest in those around you and foster technical excellence
• You champion best practices in usability, accessibility, performance, security
• You are curious and continuously learn because it's a passion not just an expectation of your role
• You know when documentation communicates concepts more succinctly and effectively than the code
• You see opportunities and proactively lead discussions with the wider team aimed at sharing knowledge, experience and insights.
• Full ownership of infrastructure and pipelines across Oracle Cloud and Azure
• Plan and execute infrastructure roadmaps with CTO and teams
• Automate operational workflows ensuring scalability and security
• Produce architecture and environment documentation
• Collaborate with leadership on technical updates and cost control and reporting
• Drive infrastructure innovation and operational excellence
• You'll mature, own and be accountable for establishing a low noise low pain infrastructure upon which the business can depend

Key responsibilities

• Kubernetes config, security, reliability, scaling and automated deployments
• Oracle Cloud and Azure and security best practise in those environments
• Terraform
• Azure DevOps pipelines and deployment automation
• Container build and hardening
• Automation for certificate renewals, cost reporting, BC/DR planning
• Observability tooling and alerting (Grafana, Elastic Prometheus)
• Linux system administration
• Networking, routing, load balancing, IPv4/IPv6, VPC, VPNs, fwd/rev proxies

Skills and experience

• 3+ years in senior DevOps role owning business-critical SaaS infrastructure
• 6+ years total DevOps/infrastructure automation experience
• End-to-end infrastructure ownership and automation
• Familiarity C4 architecture diagrams and environment documentation
• Integration, documentation and compliance in security-focused environments
• Hands-on with OCI and Azure (1+ years each)
• Proven ADO pipeline ownership and enhancement
• Container orchestration expertise (Kubernetes)
• Security and compliance
• Strong BC/DR planning, documentation and testing experience
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Production of roadmaps for platform enhancements including estimating
• Practical AI workload deployment knowledge in SaaS
• RabbitMQ and MySQL
• Data storage management, cloud backup/restore, GDPR

Desirable Skills

• Familiar with C#/.NET ecosystems with web and/or Blazor front-ends
• AI/ML deployment experience with AI infrastructure orchestration
• Third-party SaaS integration support experience
• PCI DSS
• Mentoring junior DevOps staff

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan - claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we'll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK's 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen - Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better - Be bold. Challenge the norm - make small improvements often.
• Win together - Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.