DevOps Engineer

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Are you a confident communicator, with the ability clearly articulate ideas, keen to develop your skills base and committed to contributing to a better life for our planet and future generations?

DevOps Engineer - The Role

This is a unique opportunity to work with our Network team and use your experience of your programming and coding skills to contribute to a positive and vital cause. We want you to accelerate our intent to modernise by becoming an agile, lightweight and responsive organisation.

Join us and you will operate and maintain systems and applications as well as lead our software integration strategy. This role is key in educating and inspiring your expert infrastructure colleagues with programming and coding skills.

Your experience will help guide colleague’s choices of new and replacement applications like our CRM, Human Resources and other legacy applications.

You will communicate interoperability requirements to teams within the business and ensure a common understanding of the advantages for using formalised data structures, standards and sharing.

You will also develop plans to create a software architecture that allows flow and transformation between our data silos as well as support teams automate manual processes where possible.

DevOps Engineer - Requirements

You must possess a relevant qualification in software architecture or design as well as experience of designing software solutions leveraging SQL and/or NoSQL technologies, for example MariaDB or ElasticSearch.

Proficient in PowerShell, Python and with version control systems, preferably Git, you will have solid operating system administration skills and expertise in architecting and selecting solutions which can reliably be resurrected in IT Disaster Recovery scenarios.

You will also have experience of Public Cloud and of leveraging Identity Federation solutions in software, such as Azure Active Directory and Ping Federate.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code solutions like Puppet, Chef, Ansible or Terraform and logging and search solutions like ElasticSearch ELK stacks, Splunk or Graylog would be an advantage.

A quote from the team

‘‘Working in the Network Team is an absolute pleasure. To work with an incredibly experienced team, whilst contributing to a positive and vital cause is a real luxury that not many other workplaces can provide."

Who are we?

WWF believes in a future where people and nature thrive.

Best known as the world’s leading conservation body, we’ve seen first-hand how wildlife, the environment and human activity are all interlinked.

That’s why our passion for safeguarding the natural world has to be backed up by other environmental action - tackling the global threat of climate change (through our big global campaigns like Earth Hour) and helping people to change the way they live to ease pressure on natural resources.

WWF is at the heart of global activities in all these areas. We have teams of highly skilled professionals working with governments, businesses and communities here in the UK and around the world.

DevOps Engineer - How to Apply

If you have the skills to help build a movement in defence of nature please visit our website via the link, complete the online registration and submit a copy of your up to date CV with cover letter highlighting why you are interested in this role and why you believe you are suited for the role.

At WWF-UK we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment, where diversity is valued and there is equality of opportunity. We therefore welcome applications from all sections of the community and we offer a range of benefits to encourage a work life balance.

Closing date: 26th August