Job Description
We are looking for a
Dev Enablement Engineer
on a 3-month contract to join our IT department in Milton Keynes. Reporting into the Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for improving the overall developer experience by enhancing developer productivity, managing inner-sourcing processes, implementing process improvements, and maintaining effective communication and advocacy. You is role will also focus on engineering metrics, coaching, and managing developer tooling including IDEs and accelerators coupled with a strong focus on DevOps and process automation.
Key responsibilities:
- Maintains up to date knowledge of latest automation and enablement techniques and patterns
- Play a key part in the introduction of process automation and software tooling across Connells Group, providing technical expertise and shaping the solution.
- Drives automation best practices from within the Centre of Excellence, across the business.
- Key driver in the test first development mentality and responsible for re-enforcing its role in the software development process.
- Ability to articulate and convey the importance of approaches like TDD, code test coverage and utilise advanced software testing techniques and frameworks to improve visibility of these areas
- Ability to own and manage end-to-end development and deployment plans to ensure the team deliver on time and to budget.
- Building scalable and informative documentation in the form of references, guides, and code examples.
- Solid understanding of cloud-based solutions and how they can best be utilised.
- Able to establish a common "library" of know components to allow developers to utilise a standard toolset when completing tasks.
Experience & skills:
- Minimum 5 years' experience building, owning and maintaining automation and workflow orchestration systems.
- Experience with designing and building system integrations using APIs and middleware.
- Experience working with connected systems and deployments.
- Strong experience with Azure infrastructure such Application gateway, express routes, API management service
- Ability to interpret, discuss and contribute to architecture approaches and solution designs.
- Experience working in an Agile development team (Scrum or Kanban).
- Team-oriented, with a willingness to work as part of a collaborative environment.
- Skilled in software testing methodologies and a keen advocate of unit, integration and UI tests.
- Familiarity with pipeline integrated SAST tooling.
- Familiar with build pipeline management and extensions using YAML, Cake and PowerShell.
- Experience with IAC using Terraform or Bicep.
- Experience with Azure as a cloud platform along with its connected supporting services
Desirable
- SonarQube, Snyk, Octopus Deploy, Playwright
- Familiarity with pipeline integrated DAST tooling.
- GitHub as source code management or experience with git using Azure DevOps.
- GitHub Actions for CI/CD or experience with similar.
- Solid understanding of C# Programming
- Experience with network routing and VNET and network security group
Connells Group is one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK and as of March 2021 also encompasses Countrywide. Founded in 1936 and with a network of over 1,250 branches nationwide, the Group combines residential sales and lettings expertise with a range of consumer and corporate services including new homes, mortgage services, conveyancing, EPC provision, surveying, corporate lettings, asset management, land & planning, LPA receivers and auctions.
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