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Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.
Working with Costain's Business Systems Group, you’ll be at the leading edge of our cloud platform - architecting, building and improving our infrastructure and ensuring our service is always available, fast and secure.
Most importantly, your work will improve the IT experience for our internal users, clients and supporting projects, such as HS2 and Crossrail, embracing the latest DevOps tools and methods from within our Azure platform.
Key responsibilities
The DevOps engineer role is wide and varied but the main responsibilities include working collaboratively with business owners, clients, projects as well as Costain staff, utilising the latest Agile techniques and methodologies to aid the delivery of our project’s infrastructure and platform solutions.
You will be working with leading edge DevOps tools and technologies to design and build high quality, cloud Infrastructure and platforms to our client’s and Costain’s requirements, delivering solutions built within Azure and on premise where required.
As well as creating new solutions, you will also be helping to support, monitor, migrate and improve our current infrastructure and the live running of our platforms and applications, creating automation solutions and migrating to the cloud wherever we can, also, helping diagnose the root causes of system issues using your problem-solving skills to produce permanent solutions that ensure that problems never reoccur.
About You
Working within the DevOps team, internal collaboration within the BSG department as well as communication with external clients and projects is essential so excellent verbal and communication skills and a professional manner is vital for this role.
You will require working knowledge and experience with Azure (Azure accreditations are advantageous) to demonstrate delivery within the Azure stack of technologies including
- Microsoft O365 solutions
- IaaS
- PaaS
- Azure Storage
- Azure Network
- Azure AD
- Automation including PowerShell and Terraform/Chef/Puppet etc
- Azure DevOps toolset
Within the DevOps team there is a real enthusiasm working with new, leading edge cloud technologies along with embracing the challenge of change utilising Agile and DevOps techniques and delivery methods, if you share these attributes, we would welcome you to apply and become an integral and valued member of our DevOps team
About Costain
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Your application
At Costain we aim to be an accessible, diverse and inclusive organisation to continue to meet our customers’ needs. We will be industry leading in our approach and people from all backgrounds will be proud to work for Costain. Our goal is to have a workforce that is representative of society.
Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com
We will consider all applicants regardless of age, race, faith and socioeconomic background, including those from marginalised groups, such as (but not exclusive to):
- People who identify as LGBT+, including non-binary people
- People with physical or neurological disabilities
- People who have mental ill health
We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working, such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.
