Job Title: Azure Integrations Engineer
Job Location: UK Flexible Location
Salary: £44,207 to £68,000 per annum based on 35 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Could you be part of a team responsible for the development, maintenance, and support of a range of integrations using BizTalk and Azure Integration Services?
Could you orchestrate and manage processes across a range complex, high-risk products and services, including finance, customer relationship, and case management systems?
A day in the life of an Azure Integrations Engineer will involve:
- Develop integrations using agreed standards with approved methods and tooling, supporting our partner organisations doing the same where development activities are outsourced.
- Apply frameworks and patterns to support and maintain integrations, ensuring they well managed, monitored, maintained, up-to date, secure, performant, available to users, and are supported by operational runbooks.
- Capture and analyse user stories so that the user and business needs are well-understood,and our services have meaningful impact.
- Create and test rapid prototypes to prove the concept, using the prototypes to gain early feedback to iterate design decisions.
- Design integrations to have embedded security controls that specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats, providing privacy and security by default and design, as a core part of the solution.
- Manage documentation, knowledge repositories, and runbooks for service continuity, including managing the processes and testing the runbooks to ensure that service availability is maintained.
- Troubleshoot during incidents, diagnosing and prioritising issues, then proposing and implementing remedies and preventative measures to ensure that the issues are resolved appropriately as well as introducing automated controls and patterns to identify and prevent further reoccurrence.
- Ensure alignment to ITIL Service Management framework and that changes are implemented based on Requests for Change (RFC), adhering to the British Red Cross change management policy and process, obtaining a level of assurance commensurate to the potential impact of changes with appropriate contingency in the event that the changes are unsuccessful.
- Define and track measurable goals and their outcome throughout the lifecycle using goal-setting frameworks, such as Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Identify deficiencies and risks related to our development and delivery processes and take ownership for their resolution.
- Support the adoption of modern development standards and practices, such as automation, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and blameless post-mortems.
To be a successful Integrations Engineer, You’ll need:
- Strong BizTalk skills with a good knowledge of BizTalk development best practices along with a good understanding of integration architecture, protocols, and standards, such as REST, SOAP, XML, and JSON.
- Strong understanding of Azure Integration Services, including Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and Azure API Management.
- Good PowerShell scripting skills and development skills in other relevant programming languages, such as C#, Java, and Python.
- Good communication and collaboration skills across both technical and non-technical stakeholders with a strong sense of ownership and natural problem-solving ability.
- Good knowledge of modern, robust, and secure service authentication schemes and Microsoft identity and access management services, including Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and Azure AD Connect.
- Good analytical skills, collating, interpreting, and presenting quantitative and qualitative data to identify potential areas of improvement.
- Good awareness of Azure Services such as Azure Policy, Event Hubs, Service Bus, SQL Database, App Configuration, Monitor, and Azure Automation.
- Demonstrated ability to assess user needs, including track meaningful user experience metrics, and deliver continuously improvement of user experience and the performance of the software.
The closing date for completed applications is 23:59hrs on Wednesday the 30th of October 2024 with interviews to follow
Please apply early, as we’ll be reviewing candidates throughout. We reserve the right to close the ad in advance of the published date.
In return for your dedication and expertise, you’ll get:
• Holidays: 36 days annual leave (including bank holidays) + option to buy 5 extra days.
• Pension scheme: Up to 6% contributory pension.
• Flexible working: We do our best to accommodate your preferred work style.
• Learning & Development: Wide range of career opportunities + comprehensive learning.
• Discounts: Access to Blue Light Discount Card and employee benefits platform.
• Wellbeing Assistance: Access to mental health and wellbeing assistance.
• Team Working: Champion our mission in a collaborative team.
• Cycle2Work: Lease a bicycle through the scheme.
• Season ticket loan: Interest-free loan for commuting expenses.
We are proud to participate in the disability confident scheme for roles based in the UK. During the application process, you will be asked if you wish to apply under the scheme.
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