Job title: Senior DevOps EngineerDepartment: OnyxLocation: Homebased within the U.K.Hours: 37.5 hours per weekSalary: CompetitiveWe’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to be part of our success story.Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies. Great career development opportunities – grow with us.OverviewOnyx BMS is an end-to-end, next-generation Bodyshop Management System, meticulously designed by repair professionals for automotive repair experts. As part of Activate Group, Onyx BMS leverages the resources and reach of one of the UK’s leading accident management providers, serving tens of thousands of motor claims every year for top insurers, brokers, and fleet operators. Onyx BMS empowers repair businesses of every size to deliver seamless operations through centralised, cloud-based multi-site management, advanced automations, and real-time data insights, offering next-generation solutions for bodyshops and vehicle repair networks.You, your role and your impactYou are accountable and lead by exampleYou will be a trusted partner of all Onyx teams and in time a Product SMEYou invest in those around you and foster technical excellenceYou champion best practices in usability, accessibility, performance, securityYou are curious and continuously learn because it’s a passion not just an expectation of your roleYou know when documentation communicates concepts more succinctly and effectively than the codeYou see opportunities and proactively lead discussions with the wider team aimed at sharing knowledge, experience and insights.Full ownership of infrastructure and pipelines across Oracle Cloud and AzurePlan and execute infrastructure roadmaps with CTO and teamsAutomate operational workflows ensuring scalability and securityProduce architecture and environment documentationCollaborate with leadership on technical updates and cost control and reportingDrive infrastructure innovation and operational excellenceYou’ll mature, own and be accountable for establishing a low noise low pain infrastructure upon which the business can dependKey responsibilitiesKubernetes config, security, reliability, scaling and automated deploymentsOracle Cloud and Azure and security best practise in those environmentsTerraformAzure DevOps pipelines and deployment automationContainer build and hardeningAutomation for certificate renewals, cost reporting, BC/DR planningObservability tooling and alerting (Grafana, Elastic Prometheus …)Linux system administrationNetworking, routing, load balancing, IPv4/IPv6, VPC, VPNs, fwd/rev proxiesSkills and experience3+ years in senior DevOps role owning business-critical SaaS infrastructure6+ years total DevOps/infrastructure automation experienceEnd-to-end infrastructure ownership and automationFamiliarity C4 architecture diagrams and environment documentationIntegration, documentation and compliance in security-focused environmentsHands-on with OCI and Azure (1+ years each)Proven ADO pipeline ownership and enhancementContainer orchestration expertise (Kubernetes)Security and complianceStrong BC/DR planning, documentation and testing experienceExcellent communication and collaboration skillsProduction of roadmaps for platform enhancements including estimatingPractical AI workload deployment knowledge in SaaSRabbitMQ and mySQLData storage management, cloud backup/restore, GDPRDesirable SkillsFamiliar with C#/.NET ecosystems with web and/or Blazor front-endsAI/ML deployment experience with AI infrastructure orchestrationThird-party SaaS integration support experiencePCI DSSMentoring junior DevOps staffBenefits33 days holiday (including bank holidays)Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check upsEnhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental payLife assurance: three times basic salaryFree breakfasts and fruitBirthday surprise for everybody!What you can expect from usAt Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you\'re at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we\'ll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.A bit about usNamed by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.We work with some of the UK\'s largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:Purpose: Make someone\'s bad day betterValues:Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other. #J-18808-Ljbffr