DevOps Engineer

Employment Type

Full Time, Permanent

Application Start Date

Application End Date

Location

London, Victoria

Work Style

Hybrid

Biotechnology/pharmaceuticals

Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The primary responsibility of this role will be to act as an individual contributor within the software development team at Beacon. The role will require the development and maintenance of Beacon's infrastructure, systems and customer-facing digital products. The role will also include supporting other people within the development team as well as its processes and working practices.

The software development team forms part of the Beacon Technology department. The team work on our Beacon data platform which supports the drug development industry by providing up-to-date data on drugs, clinical trials, deals, companies and patents. The role requires collaboration with colleagues from around the business and therefore there is a requirement to work from the office in London for two days per week. Regular working hours are 08:30-17:00 Monday to Friday with an hour for lunch.

Main responsibilities

• Work as part of the Beacon Technology team to build and maintain infrastructure for our digital products.
• Aim for continuous improvement by seeking out opportunities for enhancements in line with our platform roadmap.
• Create and maintain efficient automated continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• Ensure that our systems and infrastructure are secure according to industry standards and support the team to integrate security best practices in our development processes.
• Establish procedures and tooling for monitoring and alerting and respond to incidents promptly.
• Use infrastructure as code as a basis for a strong focus on continuous delivery.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from across the business to improve our digital products.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning within the software development team, including creating effective documentation and undertaking knowledge sharing.

Split of the role

People 0%

Delivery 85%

Goals:

• Work as an individual contributor within the software development team at Beacon.
• Support the Technical Lead to evolve our processes and tools to ensure that our code base and infrastructure remains robust, performant and secure.
• Work with the Technical Lead and our software development partners to agree on shared processes and procedures.

Required Skills

• Excellent knowledge of the Microsoft Azure platform, backed up by demonstrable commercial experience.
• Good expertise with continuous integration and deployment pipelines, including automation and testing.
• Great knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as ARM templates, Bicep or Terraform.
• Knowledge of security best practices, tools and standards.
• Understanding of the Azure Well-Architected Framework and its key recommendations.
• Experience with SQL (using SQL Server).
• Experience with agile methodologies (e.g. Kanban, Scrum).
• Experience with the effective and safe use of AI tools within the software development lifecycle, and the management of the infrastructure for AI-based solutions.

Knowledge and abilities:

• You enjoy creative thinking and solving problems.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You build trust with colleagues easily and effortlessly.
• You can build strong relationships with diverse teams both within and outside an organisation.
• You are self-motivated and a driven contributor who gets things done.
• You are well organized and detail-oriented.

Education and experience:

• Experience of software infrastructure and development, for example, previous commercial employment and/or a degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• Experience in the cloud-hosted SAAS (software as a service) industry.