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DevOps Engineer

Employer
Sky
Location
Leeds
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
17 Jun 2021

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Sector
Technology & Digital
Hours
Full Time
Flexibility
Flexible working available
Contract Type
Permanent

Job Details

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe's leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

This is a great opportunity to join our Identity Tribe. Based at Leeds Dock, the Identity Tribe is at the heart of Sky's global digital platforms. You will be joining a diverse team where the focus is on building scalable applications with security and reliability built in.

What you'll do:

- Assist in interpreting business requirements and deliver high quality, customer focused technical solutions.
- Work on ways to automate and improve software deployments and delivery pipelines
- Join a mixed team of mid and senior Site Reliability Engineers and DBAs using a wide range of technologies in On-Prem and Cloud datacentres.
- Drive the best technology and system engineering practices into the team with passion and enthusiasm.
- Assist in architecting, build, monitor and maintenance of best in class infrastructure to support delivery of Sky services.
- Work closely with Developers, Engineers, Testers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Solutions Architects to maintain and improve market-leading digital solutions.

What you'll bring:

- Experience in building solutions to help Ops and Development teams
- Advocate for automation of manual processes wherever you find them
- Experience in scripting languages like Python, Go or Bash
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
- Experience in deploying resources to Cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP
- Experience in configuring containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) would be useful

The Rewards:

There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband

Where you'll work:

Leeds:

Our spacious tech hub is under a mile away from Leeds train station, with free water taxis available from Granary Wharf. There's also plenty of parking in the surrounding streets and at the nearby CitiPark.

You can also blow off steam over a game of pool or table tennis and stay fit at our subsidised gym.

Inclusion:

Recognised as an 'Inclusive Top 50 Employer' and a 'Times Top 50 Employer for Women', we're working hard to ensure we're a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don't just look at your CV. We're more focused on who you are and the potential you'll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working.

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can't wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.

 

Company

Sky is the operator of the leading multichannel television platform in the UK and Ireland with viewers in 8.6 million households.

Sky was the winner of the Overall Top Employer Award for the 2016 Workingmums.co.uk Top Employer Awards. It was praised by the judges for the strong evidence of its support for diversity, female career progression across the board and family friendly working which was backed up with strong evidence and case studies.

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