DevOps Engineer - Energy Markets

Base Location: Havant

Salary: £46,626 - £54,154 + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll join a team of Developers working in Agile practices to digitise SSE Energy Markets. Your knowledge will facilitate the ongoing maintenance and development of our core applications. You will support and advise the Energy Markets Front Office Delivery team in best practice solutions to deliver Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines and activities.

You will be

- Designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and supporting significant components within a modern digital service platform pipeline across production and near production environments.

- Applying industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and application components e.g. security, elasticity, performance.

- Applying your experience/ knowledge of cloud computing in building applications and infrastructure using Azure.

- Managing the release and change management processes required to implement technical changes to our core applications via modern Continuous Delivery processes for releasing software to production.

- Part of an on-call support rota.

You have

- Agile environment full SDLC under your belt from a DevOps Engineering perspective with a preference for building applications with Azure experience or other DevOps tools such as Github.

- Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages (C#, Java, Python, C++, Ruby, Shell).

- Experience of troubleshooting cloud integrations (Azure Function Apps, Azure Service Bus, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Front Door, Azure Key Vault, Databricks, SqlDB).

- Experience in Build & Release Management, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), ideally using Azure DevOps (pipelines, repos, releases) to release software to production and using Monitoring tools to support the releases (any tools but preference for Azure monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics).

- Knowledge of deployments using Infrastructure as Code in Terraform and ARM templates.

About SSE

SSE has a bold ambition – to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're building the world's largest offshore wind farm. Transforming the grid to provide greener electricity for millions of people and investing over £20 billion in homegrown energy, with £20 billion more in the pipeline.

SSE Energy Markets secure the energy needed to power customers' lives, while creating value for SSE. Our Energy Markets trading teams buy the fuel needed to deliver cleaner energy and sell power generated in our wind farm, hydro and thermal assets back to the markets.

Flexible benefits to fit your life

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact David on David.Brickell@sse.com / 01738 275846 to discuss how we can support you.

We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.

Ready to apply?

Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with SSE, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.

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