Position: Junior DevOps Engineer 

/Location: Farnborough HQ (Office work preferred with Hybrid 3 days a week in office for the right candidate) 

Type: Permanent 

Are you a DevOps Engineer with Azure Experience who wants to become an AKS guru? 

myairops® offers a unique and exciting opportunity to the correct candidate. If you are someone that has a good understanding of cloud infrastructure and have an understanding of virtualisation, containerisation, and scripting and you are keen to learn and want to become an expert in Azure Cloud technologies and Kubernetes then this opportunity is for you. 

This role will provide access within the first year of the role to between 10k to 20k of bonded training to up-skill the successful candidate to be a certified Azure Cloud DevOps professional and Kubernetes expert. Providing access to some of the best and newest technologies myairops® can be the next step to turbo charge your DevOps career. 

We recognise that skills are lacking in many of the key areas and technologies we use and so we have adopted an approach to use a combination of on-the-job training and experience mixed with professionally provided training delivered via residential training providers with a blend of classroom and virtual learning. 

myairops® is a fast-growing technology business that provides specialist SaaS software to the aviation industry. As a scale up business we are on-boarding customers every month as part of our global infrastructure solution. As an organisation that takes cyber security and data privacy very seriously the DevOps team is also exposed to some of the latest technologies available within the Azure cloud technology stack supporting networking, event driven microservices, serverless computing, containerisation, SQL structured database management, unstructured no-sql data stores, business analytics and deployment by code. 

If you are someone who has experience with scripting and software deployment in cloud infrastructure, you do not need to be an expert in AKS, Helm, Docker and others. If you can demonstrate a sound understanding of the concepts of containerisation and a desire to learn with a positive attitude, then we want to hear from you! 

You will be collaborating with our amazing team and will be working very closely with our experienced DevOps Team Lead, who will continuously support your development and growth. Due to the highly collaborative nature of this role this will best suit someone who wants to spend the majority of time in the office environment collaborating with team members. We do offer access to hybrid working but have a strong preference for someone who wants to be office based. 

Our team are friendly, helpful and passionate about what we do.  We are looking for someone who shares the same values and will support the building of our DevOps culture and capabilities as well as investing in to the successful candidates training and knowledge.  

About us: 

myairops is a leader of SaaS products to the aviation industry with customers across the globe.  Solutions are provided through innovative web delivered software and connected mobile applications.  Our business is product focussed with a 30-year heritage, we are growing and very excited about the future. 

We’re a friendly team of experts, optimists, big-thinkers and problem-solvers, and are lucky enough to work with some of the largest and most successful companies in the world.  

More about the role:  

The DevOps Engineer will work across the myairops Azure infrastructure, including scheduling and running maintenance, troubleshooting production issues, and evolving the platform with deployments, monitoring and optimisation. 

Primary Responsibilities include: 

• Automate manual processes using Azure DevOps pipelines and Power Automate to enable self-service for engineering and customer success. 

• Schedule & monitor cloud infrastructure and customer environment upgrades and deployments. 

• Work as part of cross functional, engineering project team to ensure quality from requirements definition through to delivery. 

• Represent the DevOps team and be a point of contact to answer questions relating to DevOps, Azure and cloud infrastructure.     

• Create and maintain build and deployment automation scripts. 

• Create and maintain Kubernetes based applications, using Helm, Docker and similar cloud native tools 

• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, using configuration as code 

• Reduce software delivery friction. 

• Contributing to a team culture committed to effective communication, respect, values and supporting each other to meet individual and common goals.  

• Engaging with stakeholders across the team, using a pragmatic approach to achieve sign off, without compromising on stability and/or defined requirements.    

Skills and Experience required: 
Essential: 

• Working as a DevOps engineer in Microsoft Azure, using native tooling like Azure DevOps, ARM/Bicep, Azure Functions and Application Insights. 

• A general understanding of the Software Delivery Lifecycle and associated tooling like Git and Jira (or equivalent). 

• Strong understanding of Powershell, yaml, json. 

• Creating & maintaining Azure DevOps pipelines. 

• Creating & maintaining cloud infrastructure programmatically. 

• Outcome focused, seeks to learn and improve. 

• Self-starter, motivated and driven to achieve professional success. 

• Able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues.  

• Strong collaborative team player, able to demonstrate positive team ethos and effective communication. 

• Critical thinking and analytical skills to examine issues and prioritise tasks. 

Desirable: 

• Azure certification(s). 

• Exposure to other DevOps tooling, (e.g Bicep), Prometheus/Grafana, CI/CD tools. 

• Exposure to containerisation tools, namely Kubernetes, Helm, Docker or Containerd. 

• Some experience with (MS)SQL, .Net, RESTful APIs, Postman or Microsoft SSRS. 

Our comprehensive benefits include:  

• Competitive Salary  

• Access to significant training of between 10k and 20k within the first year (which will require a bond from the candidate) 

• Group Pension Scheme – up to 5 contributions matched  

• Life Assurance  

• Income Protection  

• Travel Insurance  

• Private Healthcare (after probation)  

• Discounts at popular retailers  

Location:The role would suit the candidate that ideally wants to work from the office for the majority of time as the other members of the DevOps team regularly attend the office each week. For flexibility there will be an offer to work up to two days a week flexibly.