Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.
We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of what we do:
- UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
- 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
- 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
- Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
- Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW
We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!.
Job DescriptionVersion 1 are winning extensive new business across a range of customers. We are seeking a Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer to support our customers. As a Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer, you will join an expanding team with a broad range of enterprise scale customers and projects. You’ll have experience in interacting with customers implementing DevOps projects aligned with industry best practices. Working as part of a team on projects you will develop and enhance our customers’ ability to rapidly build and deploy to cloud services and release software.
- In a customer-facing role you will implement DevOps processes and tooling for the delivery of IaaS and PaaS services using IaC in the public cloud.
- Automate the configuration and management of cloud workloads in Azure.
- Build toolchains to support automated builds, tests, and deployments of applications to public cloud platforms
- Contribute to technical decisions in a collaborative team environment.
Essential Criteria:
- 7 years’ experience in Information Technology with 5 years DevOps experience with a focus on Microsoft Azure
- Self-driven approach at work with an intrinsic motivation to excel and take ownership of tasks and projects.
- Strong demonstrable experience with Azure DevOps (or equivalent CI/CD tooling), scripting languages, and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, PowerShell DSC
- Experiencing building and configuring cloud services using Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Good knowledge on Microsoft Cloud adoption framework for Azure
- One or more of the following Azure certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
- Experience of implementing modern CI/CD processes for releasing software
- Experience in implementing and advocating for DevOps methodologies and processes.
- Broad experience building and configuring Azure IaaS and PaaS service (i.e., pp Service, VNETs, NSGs, SQL databases, Service Bus, Function Apps, Key Vault, Logic Apps)
- Experience with Git
Preferred criteria:
- Terraform Associate Certification
Why Version 1?
At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.
- Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
- Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
- Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
- Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
- Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
- Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
- Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
- Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.
And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.
Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer.
We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.
We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact your recruiter at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.
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Skills Required
- 7 years' experience in Information Technology with 5 years DevOps experience focused on Microsoft Azure
- Self-driven with ownership of tasks and projects
- Experience with Azure DevOps (or equivalent CI/CD tooling)
- Experience with scripting languages and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, PowerShell DSC
- Experience building and configuring cloud services using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Good knowledge of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
- One or more Azure certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert or DevOps Engineer Expert)
- Experience implementing modern CI/CD processes for releasing software
- Experience implementing and advocating for DevOps methodologies and processes
- Broad experience building and configuring Azure IaaS and PaaS services (VNet, NSG, SQL DB, Service Bus, Function Apps, Key Vault, Logic Apps)
- Experience with Git
- Terraform Associate Certification
What We Do
Version 1 proves that IT can make a real difference to our customers' businesses. We are trusted by global brands to deliver IT services and solutions which drive customer success. Our 3000+ strong team works closely with our technology partners to provide independent advice that helps our customers navigate the rapidly changing world of IT. Our greatest strength is balance in our efforts to achieve Customer Success, Empowered People and a Strong Organisation, underpinned by the commitment to our values. We believe this is what makes Version 1 different and more importantly, our customers agree.
