DevOps Engineer in Newcastle

About Unilink

Unilink Software is a fast-growing, international company and the leading provider of innovative, award-winning software solutions for the criminal justice sector. Our mission is to empower governments and businesses around the world to effectively secure their operating environments, intuitively manage their data, become more efficient, and foster a culture of rehabilitation.

Our purpose is to create technologies that people can rely on so that justice systems work well. We foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and excellence. We care about our staff, our customers, the environment and everything we do - principles encompassed in our social purpose statement.

We work with fantastic customers - government and private sector organisations in the UK, Europe and Australia - who use our software solutions to reduce the administrative burden on staff, improve the information flow and security as well as to implement digital solutions to assist in rehabilitation of people in their care.

We are growing quickly, expect that growth to accelerate and are looking for enthusiastic, passionate and driven individuals to join our team. Our offices are located in London, Southampton and Newcastle but our staff are located throughout the UK, in Europe and Australia. We offer flexible working, a good benefits package and competitive salary.

Dev Ops Engineer

UK based

About the role

DevOps Engineer responsibilities include building, testing and deploying various software products within automation using the CI/CD approach, with the end goal to securely delivery these products to Cloud and On-Premise hosting solutions. Ultimately, you will execute and automate operational processes fast, accurately and securely.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Implement integrations requested by customers
• Deploy new applications, updates and fixes
• Provide Level 2-3 technical support
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Develop scripts to automate visualization
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
• Support Cloud VDC’s and integration/migrate to/from on-prem systems
• Manage, support and perform maintenance on SQL Server installations

Experience

• Experience as DevOps engineer in cloud-based environments (Minimum 2 years).
• Experience with monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing production systems.
• Shell/Bash/Powershell scripting skills and experience (Minimum 2 years)
• Hands-on experience with Containers (Docker) and Orchestration tools (Kubernetes/ Docker Compose).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform
• With Azure Cloud infrastructure
• With automation tooling such as Jenkins.
• Team player and excellent interpersonal skills.

Why work for us

Starting at 25 days annual leave exc bank holidays increasing with length of service

5% Pension

Life insurance of x4 base salary

Flexible working

Ride to Work salary sacrifice

External courses for career development

Free parking (exc London)

Annual bonus (discretionary based on Company performance)

Annual salary review

12 weeks Maternity pay at 100%