DevOps Engineer

Location: Croydon, Surrey (Hybrid: 2 days from home, 3 in the office)

Salary: £55,000 - £75,000 (depending on industry experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

About the Role

Are you passionate about DevOps and automation? Do you want to make a meaningful impact in a safety-critical medical device environment? We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our clients amazing team, enabling and optimising DevOps strategies to improve the quality of medical device software through industry-standard practices and tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, deploy, and maintain Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipelines for medical device software.
• Develop and optimise internal automation and quality control strategies, including automated builds, testing, and code quality gates.
• Create and maintain CI/CD infrastructure with a strong focus on security and maintainability.
• Design and maintain internal developer tools to automate repetitive tasks and enhance productivity.
• Manage and optimise internal Application Lifecycle Management tools.

Required Skills & Experience

Essential:

• BSc or equivalent qualification in engineering or computing, or a strong professional portfolio.
• Experience creating custom plugins within the TFS/Azure DevOps plugin ecosystem.
• Proficiency in high-level scripting languages, particularly JavaScript/TypeScript and Python.
• Experience developing front-end UIs using modern frameworks.
• Experience with webhook servers and microservices using backend web frameworks.
• Familiarity with self-hosting web applications.
• Experience using both Windows and Linux as development and server operating systems.
• Strong knowledge of Unix/Windows shell scripting (e.g., Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience using GitHub, GitLab, or Azure DevOps, including REST API integration.
• Understanding of verification/validation in regulated environments, including design reviews, code reviews, and system validation.
• Knowledge of embedded compilers for C/C++.
• Familiarity with:
• Software version control using Git
• Automated software builds
• Static analysis
• Unit, integration, and end-to-end testing

Desirable:

• Experience within a Medical Device environment.
• Knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with software monorepos.
• Proficiency in TypeScript.
• Familiarity with configuration as code (Ansible, Docker Compose).
• Experience securing applications with SSL.
• Understanding of OpenEmbedded/Yocto and ARM development environments.

Key Competencies

• Collaborative team player with excellent communication skills.
• Proactive and driven with a creative approach to problem-solving.
• Strong time management and ability to work independently.
• High standard of report writing and ability to interpret technical documentation.
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Why Join Our Client

We offer a rewarding, stimulating, and environmentally conscientious workplace with excellent benefits, including:

• 25 days' holiday (rising to 28) + bank holidays
• Blended working options
• Enhanced pension scheme (with salary sacrifice option)
• Bonus schemes
• Sharesave scheme
• Mind & body wellbeing support
• Healthcare cash plan
• Retailer discounts
• Life assurance
• Enhanced and equal leave & pay for new parents
• Cycle to Work scheme
• SmartTech scheme
• Electric Car Benefit
• Employee referral scheme
• Travel season ticket loan

*I am sorry but our client does not offer sponsorship. *

Apply Now!

If you're excited by this opportunity and want to contribute to the development of life-saving medical device software, we’d love to hear from you!

Join us in making a difference with cutting-edge DevOps solutions in a critical healthcare industry.

Please contact your Recruitment Partner, Lisa Logan at Unicorn Resourcing on 01223 297980 or email lisa.logan@unicornresourcing.co.uk

If this job isn't exactly right for you but you're looking for something new, please contact us for a confidential career discussion.

Unicorn Resourcing Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in regard to this Permanent opportunity.