At ANS, we’ve created a place where everyone can be themselves, and we empower our people to get the job done. Openness, ambition, honesty, and passion are what drive us every day. We are bold, courageous, and innovative – and we do it like no other. We invest in our people. In training, development, health and more – we give you the benefits and flexibility to maintain a happy work-life balance.

We’re proud of the inclusive, fun, dynamic environment we’ve created. It’s a safe space that works for all. You don’t have to be a techie to work in tech. Bring your authentic self and find your dream role here. 

The role

You will be working within a close-knit and highly skilled operations team working to deliver a proactive DevOps service to customers.

As part of your role, you will work to agreed deadlines, operating multiple customer environments in Azure and AWS with a focus on automation. You will need strong communication skills, team working, customer-centric focus, time management and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment!

What will I be doing?

  • Working closely with our customer's operations teams to improve and develop their DevOps
  • Create and develop automation
  • Configuration and management of code repositories
  • Configuration and management of build and release pipelines
  • Configuration and management of application infrastructure
  • Help define ANS standards for DevOps processes and technologies
  • Keep track of time spent on customer's backlogs
  • Point of technical escalation for cloud engineering. The role also involves upskilling of other teams across the business in DevOps technical skills and practices

What soft & transferable skills will I bring? 

  • Curiosity 
  • Collaboration 
  • Communication
  • Humility 
  • Continuous improvement  

What will I bring to the role?  

Knowledge of DevOps tooling, examples: 

  • Public Cloud - Azure 
  • CI/CD – Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab 
  • Containers – Docker, Kubernetes (EKS) 
  • Scripting – Powershell, Bash, Python, Node.JS 

Knowledge of application development 

  • Config Management– Ansible, DSC, Chef, Puppet 
  • IaC – Terraform, Cloud Formation, ARM Templates 
  • Monitoring & Logging – Azure Logs, Application Insights, ELK, Grafana, Logic Monitor 

What is needed to do the role?  

Qualifications & Certification (desirable, not essential):

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Certified Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-104, AZ-400)

What’s in it for you?

With fantastic benefits, an inclusive culture, and a cool office space, we’re your kind of workplace. 

Company benefits:

  • As standard: 25 days’ holiday, plus you can buy up to 5 more days
  • A little extra: we’ll give you your birthday off, and an extra celebration day for whatever you want! Tying the knot? You get 5 days’ additional holiday in the year you get married. Oh, and 5 volunteer days!
  • Private health insurance
  • Pension contribution match and 4 x life assurance
  • Flexible working and work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year (some exceptions)
  • Maternity: 16 weeks’ full pay, Paternity: 3 weeks’ full pay, Adoption: 16 weeks’ full pay
  • Company social events – get ready for a jam-packed calendar
  • Electric car scheme
  • 12 days of personal growth development time

ANS are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and anyone applying for a role at our organisation can be assured that their application will be treated fairly, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sex or sexual orientation. We sometimes ask for information relating to individuals for equal opportunities monitoring purposes