We’re looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow.   Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them.     What does Access offer you?  We offer a flexible, hybrid working environment where you can balance work and life while maintaining a strong office team-based culture. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career.  On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you’re with us), and a matched pension scheme, you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We’re an organisation that likes to give back, so you’ll also have one charity day allocated to support a cause that matters to you.     About you:  You will ideally be a DevOps engineer with experience working with Azure. This will really suit you if you have ideas and knowledge on how to improve the development lifecycle and put to action. Day-to-day, you will:  • Apply or assist the Divisional DevOps team with implementing the DevOps shared vision and roadmap • As part of the cross functional DevOps team, contribute to the wider engineering & operations team(s) best practice, operational & Security excellence & reliable, transparent deliverables against the DevOps roadmap. • Look for opportunities to eliminate silos, drive continuous improvement & automate business processes to maximise customer delight. Lead Agile retrospectives and recommend improvements. • Assist with the design & implementation of Infrastructure as code standards - using standard Access tooling. Ensuring we build testing, including security testing into our CI/CD Pipelines. • Ensure solutions are integrated into mainstream product tooling, i.e. AzureDevOps and Site Management tools. • Performs technical and procedural operations of divisional IT operations, ensuring that agreed service levels are met and all relevant policies and procedures are adhered to. • Participates in the Scheduling and supervision of all IT maintenance and installation work. • Ensure that operational problems are identified, recorded, monitored and resolved. Provide appropriate status and other reports to specialists, users and managers. • Ensures operational procedures and working practices are fit for purpose & current. Perform problem resolution and root cause analysis. • Assist the Information Security team with the completion of Application Security questionnaires. Assist with the co-ordination of 3rd party penetration tests & vulnerability remediation. Assist division with implementation of OWASP SAMM2. • Ensure that application operations environments are architected for scale, security, elasticity, redundancy and recoverability. Following well architected frameworks. Assist with implementation of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) principals • Work with the other DevOps Engineers to understand & implement best practice, agile & methodologies, knowledge sharing & address technical challenges across the wider portfolio of products. • Own, manage and be accountable for specific projects and deliverables, managing risks and dependencies with autonomy. • Write clean, self-documenting code that is well structured, well-named, simple and easy to read. Your skills and experiences might also include:   • Working with Cloud infrastructure. We use Azure, but experience with other providers such as AWS or GCP is also relevant. • Previous experience in a DevOps or SRE role, with a focus on tooling, automation and systems operation. • Using IaC automation tools such as Terraform. • Knowledge of containerised deployment and management using Docker and Kubernetes. • Managing and using observability systems for logging, metrics and alerting. • Creating and maintaining CI/CD and deployment pipelines. • An understanding of common networking techniques like load balancing. • Working with highly available, scalable cloud solutions. • Experience of implementing cloud infrastructure security. • Experience of ensuring operational continuity, scaling and improvements. • Working on an on-call rota. What are we all about?  The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific. It helps more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient. Our products and solutions go beyond providing technology, we connect the right people with the right data, at the right time, through Access Workspace.   At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn't align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us! We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity. Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you? Let's make a difference together. Love Work. Love Life. Be You.