DevOps Engineer

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Job description

f you're looking to join an organisation that will give you the right opportunities and experience to develop your career, join Tilney Smith and Williamson.

Job Purpose:

We are looking for a DevOps engineer to drive a step-change improvement in the quality, reliability and performance of our software products. As an ambitious wealth management organisation undergoing digital transformation, we are looking for a seasoned engineer to champion and embed the latest development practices and foster operational excellence in our application development. With support from our senior leadership team, we are committed to modernising our ways of working and looking for someone who bring the latest thinking to life amongst new and established technical teams.

Key Responsibilities:

In your role, you'll use your experience in software development and operations to:

• Promote the latest engineering thinking, especially in the areas of test automation, observability, continuous delivery, chaos engineering and DevOps
• Foster operational excellence and transparency by supporting teams in the adoption and monitoring of service level indicators and objectives (SLI/SLOs)
• Drive a significant increase in automation and reduction in manual toil in the engineering process
• Implement modern operational practices, implementing on-call, incident response and post-mortem processes that make the best use of empowered engineering teams
• Embed and nurture a culture of continuous improvement in all our engineering

You'll be able to demonstrate having done many of the following things in your previous work:

• Developed and operated modern customer-facing web and/or mobile applications in the cloud
• Implemented continuous delivery practices e.g. building and improving CI/CD pipelines and automated testing infrastructure
• Introduced tools to increase the observability, monitoring or performance of existing systems
• Been involved in on-call support for production systems, as well as post-mortems, root cause analysis and troubleshooting activity
• Persuaded other engineers to introduce new practices, acting as a positive force for change

Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform)
• Strong working knowledge of the Azure ecosystem (Azure storage account, APIM, Azure functions, VNet, CDN, monitor etc)
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines as code (Preferably GitHub Actions, TeamCity and Octopus Deploy)
• Strong focus on testability of all code deployed
• Knowledge of Azure serverless offerings
• Nice to have : experience in JavaScript/TypeScript is desireable

About Tilney Smith and Williamson

Tilney Smith & Williamson is the UK's leading integrated wealth management and professional services group, created by the merger of Tilney and Smith & Williamson on 1 September 2020.

With £54.8 billion of assets under management (as of 30 June 2021), it ranks as the third largest UK wealth manager measured by revenues and the eighth largest professional services firm ranked by fee income. The Group currently operates through three principal brands: Tilney, Smith & Williamson, and online investment service Bestinvest. It has a network of 28 offices across the UK, as well as the Republic of Ireland and the Channel Islands. Through its operating companies, the Group offers an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities, and businesses.

Value statement

Tilney Smith & Williamson's chosen purpose to "place the power of good advice into more hands" succinctly encapsulates the group's central mission of supporting both individuals and businesses to achieve their goals.

In delivering its purpose, Tilney Smith & Williamson have set out three core values that it is committed to embedding in the culture of the business:

• Personal - we treat you as an individual: We are a people business at heart and strive to deliver a friendly, inclusive, and personalised service to all of our clients, large and small.
• Partnership - we go further together: We develop relationships that stand the test of time, spanning multiple generations. We partner across the full breadth of our expertise to create value for our clients, our company and society at large.
• Performance - we strive for more: We are ambitious for our clients and for ourselves, so we aim to be a forward-thinking and innovative business that leads the way in the industry.

Diversity statement

The Tilney Smith & Williamson Group recognises the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all colleagues with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief. At Tilney Smith & Williamson we are committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of our work.