Senior DevOps Engineer - Power Platform

Senior Dev Ops Engineer - Power Platform

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Location:

Reading, Havant, Dublin. Salary: €57,600 - €86,400 / £61,620 - £72,592 + a range of benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

Working Pattern:
Permanent | Full Time | Flexible working options available.

As a Senior Dev Ops Engineer at ECS, you will play a key role in delivering data and application solutions to support Distributed Energy. Working in an Agile environment, you will design and optimise Azure infrastructure, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, and integrate machine learning models into real‑time systems. You will also contribute to AI and automation initiatives, ensuring secure, scalable, and efficient solutions that drive innovation and operational excellence across the organisation.

• Analyse complex problems and design effective solutions, showcasing strong analytical and design skills.
• Deliver scaled end‑to‑end complex solutions, including designing, building, testing, automating, and monitoring using a modern tech stack in a production environment.
• Gain hands‑on experience with business‑critical systems in medium to large organisations, ensuring reliability and performance in high‑stakes environments.
• Work in environments that follow Dev Ops principles, with strong knowledge of Dev Ops tools to streamline development and operations processes.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Owner, Delivery Manager, and stakeholders to analyse requirements and deliver comprehensive business solutions.

• Proven expertise in developing robust and scalable applications using C#/.NET, RESTful or Graph
  
  QL, and Power Apps; a degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience) is preferred.
• Extensive .NET development background with a focus on Microsoft Azure cloud services, specifically building serverless solutions with Azure Functions, orchestrating integrations with Azure Service Bus and Logic Apps.
• Experience in Build & Release Management, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), ideally using Azure Dev Ops to release software to production and monitoring releases.
• Strong proficiency in building serverless applications and integrating various services using Azure Function Apps, Cosmos DB, and SQL Server.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), ensuring efficient and scalable deployment of applications.

SSE has a bold ambition – to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're building the world's largest offshore wind farm, transforming the grid to provide greener electricity for millions of people and investing over £20 billion in homegrown energy, with £20 billion more in the pipeline. Our IT division powers growth across all SSE business areas by ensuring we have the systems, software and security needed to lead in a low‑carbon world.

• Discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships.
• Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service.
• Interest‑free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme.
• Generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact  or call 01738 275 846 to discuss how we can support you.

Start your online application using the Apply Now button on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we're taking your application further. If offered a role, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before starting work.