DevOps Engineer Manager

IsoMetrix, is a leading integrated risk management software company with offices in the USA, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and South Africa. We provide state-of-the-art solutions for ESG, EHS and GRC management.

Backed by the leading private equity firm Carlyle, an investment firm with $293bn of assets under management, SaaS-oriented business model. Crucial to the future success of the business.

We are looking for a candidate with suitable qualifications and experience to join our dynamic and passionate team in an IT development environment.

Main Purpose:

Build, test and maintain the infrastructure and tools to allow for quick development and release of software.

Primary Responsibilities:

DevOps

• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and 'fixes'
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions
• Strong focus on automation and platform engineering

IT Support

• Manage, design, plan and support physical and virtual environments including Azure tenants for best performance and security through DevOps practices
• DevOps architectural practices including Infrastructure as a code management and deployment
• Brainstorm new ideas and ways to improve automated infrastructure implementations
• IT procurement and sustainable asset management
• Customer engagements and RFP document population
• Follow all best practices and procedures as established by company

IT Strategy

• ISO accreditation support, including ongoing compliance.
• Adequate disaster recovery strategy, including backup strategy and successful execution.
• Stay current with Microsoft Partner requirements and liaise with Microsoft Account Manager maintaining sustainable relationships.
• Partner certification requirements are met and communicated to management.
• Information Systems adoption strategy.

Minimum Experience and Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, engineering, software engineering, or related field.
• Microsoft Azure Certification – AZ-400.
• Five years previous experience in development and operations, or related IT, computer, or operations field.
• Three years previous experience with the following Microsoft Azure infrastructure services:

• Azure SQL

• Cosmos DB

• Azure Application Services
• Monitoring, Application Insights, and reporting
• Kubernetes, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) and container orchestration platforms and applications
• Azure PowerShell

• Azure Front Door and load balancers

• Identity and Authentication, SSO/Federation, AD/Azure AD, Azure Key Vault

• Azure Storage

• Azure Redis Cache
• Previous experience with software development (C#, Web development, JavaScript), infrastructure development, or development and operations.
• Experience of working with distributed microservices application architectures, patterns and deployment frameworks/topologies.
• Experience maturing site reliability, observability and reducing MTTD, MTTR, RPO, RTO etc.
• Experience with Windows Server infrastructures, IIS, Azure App Service MS SQL, CI/CD tools, scripting such as JavaScript, PowerShell and Agile workflow methodologies.
• Up to date on latest industry trends, able to articulate trends and potential clearly and confidently.
• Good interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management.

Additional Requirements

• Azure Certified Developer Associate.
• Azure Certified Administrator Associate.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent teamworking and communication skills.
• Knowledge of programming languages.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Good attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.
• Solid command of DevOps and Agile principles.

The Isometrix DNA encompasses the following core values and behaviours:

• Own It
• Do the right thing
• Embrace Ideas
• Win together
• Think Beyond