DevOps Engineer

Management Level

G

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

The Engineer role is a key role within the team. With some domain knowledge, they are involved in the full lifecycle of features, often working with other engineers to deliver. They ensure continuous improvement, understand the department strategies and provide some input to some practices, toolkits and processes.

Professional Responsibilities - SFIA Responsibility Level: 2 - Assist

• Involve yourself in the implementation of software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products while ensuring you adhere to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home
• Show individual engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality and promote these qualities in more junior members of your Squad and Home
• Show interest in the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; involve yourself in adoption of these within your squad as required
• Contribute towards optimization of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs
• Participate in code reviews for inculcating new ways of thinking to improve design, quality, etc. to drive higher engineering productivity and quality
• Escalate, document, and manage issues related to product design, feature set, and functionality at appropriate levels to ensure delivery goals are met as per defined plans

Technical Responsibilities - SFIA Skill: Release and deployment RELM at Level 4

• Assesses and analyses release components for input to release scheduling.
• Maintains and administers tools and methods for software delivery, deployment and configuration.
• Maintains release processes and procedures.

Education and Experience

• Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc.
• Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in Systems
• Significant experience in engineering development for a Product SaaS organisation

Professional Skills and Qualities

• Agile Methodologies - Scrum
• Efficiency improvement
• Configuration management
• Release readiness
• Documentation / technical writing
• Process, data, system engineering

Personal Skills and Qualities

• Emotional intelligence and empathy
• Motivation, enthusiasm and optimism
• Collaboration, teamwork and cooperation
• Active listening and observation
• Continuous learning
• Language and communication
• Creative thinking

Technical Experience at Intermediate Level

• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Deployment
• Blue/Green Deployments pattern
• Configure and maintain infrastructure (build agents, hosting servers etc.)
• Complex multi-tier enterprise environments
• Configuration management and automated provisioning
• Scripting
• Containers
• Micro services
• Source code control
• Configuration of network equipment
• Good understanding of infrastructure and application security
• Database administration - backup/restore/execute queries
• PowerShell
• Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services
• Azure DevOps
• Visual Studio
• Microsoft (Windows Server, .Net) Technology stack
• Puppet
• Terraform
• Docker
• MS SQL databases

Domain Knowledge

• Experience in Financial Services preferred
• Experience in Pensions welcomed

What We Offer

Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%

All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.

Health and Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhanced cover.

Employee discounts – Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.

Flexible Benefits – The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.

Time Off – 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.

Winning together – Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.

Learning & Development – Investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues. 

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.