DevOps Engineer

Monitoring, Security & Financial Governance

• Develop monitoring, alerting and operational controls to identify failures, security issues, cost anomalies and performance problems before they affect users.
• Work closely with Cyber Security to ensure platforms and applications follow agreed security controls and relevant cloud best practices.
• Partner with FinOps to establish sensible cloud financial governance, including tagging, cost allocation, budgets, forecasting, optimisation and visibility of cloud consumption.
• Maintain a heightened awareness of the risks associated with elevated access permissions and Information Security, acting in line with our Information Security Policy and best practice.

Service Management, Coaching & Operations

• Apply ITIL practices to the design, transition, operation and continual improvement of services, contributing to process review and improvement.
• Oversee and support release processes and product updates, using change, incident, problem and service management practices where appropriate.
• Provide DevOps and cloud platform expertise, mentorship and practical coaching to raise capability across IT Operations, Software Engineering and End User Computing.
• Lead DevOps and cloud platform work on both project and BAU activity within IT Operations, and provide regular assistance with BAU workload, including the monthly server maintenance window.
• Promote effective communication and a culture of mutual understanding across Business Services and the wider firm, acting as a professional service provider.

We are looking for

• Demonstrable experience of delivering DevOps, cloud platform or infrastructure automation outcomes in a complex environment.
• Strong engineering judgement, with the ability to turn architectural direction and service requirements into working, supportable platforms.
• Proven experience of coordinating and prioritising workstreams across teams in line with customer expectations.
• Ability to produce clear, accurate technical documentation, standards and operational processes.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines, maintaining quality under time pressure.
• Experience of coaching and mentoring colleagues, explaining technical concepts clearly and identifying capability gaps.
• Strong communication skills, able to work effectively with stakeholders across IT Operations, Software Engineering, End User Computing, Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture and FinOps.
• Practical understanding of the software development lifecycle and ITIL or IT Service Management practices, including incident, problem, change and continual improvement.
• Expert practical knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, with strong commercial experience of Terraform and the creation of reusable modules and deployment patterns.
• Strong experience of designing, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for both application and infrastructure delivery.
• Strong experience of at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS or GCP), with the ability to transfer engineering principles and practices between platforms.
• Experience of cloud platform or landing zone design, including identity, policy, network topology, shared services, subscription or account structures and governance controls.
• Knowledge of centralised cloud ingress and egress patterns, private connectivity, DNS, firewalls, load balancing and Zero Trust network principles.
• Experience of working with software engineering teams to deliver cloud-hosted applications and services; experience supporting AI or data platforms in Azure or AWS is desirable.
• Experience of monitoring, observability, vulnerability scanning, backup, recovery and operational assurance for cloud services.
• Understanding of cloud financial management and FinOps practices, including tagging, cost allocation, budgets, forecasting and optimisation.
• Experience of Azure Virtual Desktop or comparable virtual desktop platforms is desirable.
• Broad IT Operations knowledge, including network protocols and standards.
• Experience of ServiceDesk and incident, problem and change management solutions and workflow tools.

Salary And Benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

Our recruitment process

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

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