DevOps Engineer

This is an exciting time for our team as we are leading a drive to embed a DevOps mindset throughout our Digital Technology department and beyond. The successful candidate will be expected to proactively seek change as well as focus on the team's wider priorities, and have the technical confidence to lead those missions, backed up by a supportive team lead and superstar colleagues.

About Us

Harrods’ IT comprises of a broad and tailored offering to support out our luxury store in Knightsbridge, London and our Harrods.com website, as well as our wider Retail, Sales, Buying, Distribution, Fulfilment and Corporate functions. As part of the Harrods Digital Technology DevOps Team, you will support the production and non-production application environments across the digital estate, alongside owning and managing the associated deployment pipelines and cloud infrastructure. The DevOps Engineer role involves day-to-day hands-on operational activities while working closely with the other functions within Digital Technology, and you will align with the development lifecycle to support the effective delivery of new functionality and projects.

About You

You love new technologies, but you care deeply about business value. You are an advocate for security and quality assurance, but you understand the pressure for rapid delivery. You automate what you can, automate what you can't, and automate what you're told is impossible. You can commit hours of learning and practice to a skill or technology, but still evaluate it objectively against an emerging competitor. In other words, you embrace the essence of DevOps - not one plus the other, but a fusion of the best of both worlds.

You are currently using C# and SQL daily, ideally in a retail or e-commerce setting, and you are comfortable working on large projects with many other developers, using a GitFlow or GitHubFlow process to coordinate commits to version control. Experience of RESTful APIs is also key. You understand the core principles of continuous integration and continuous delivery, test-driven and behaviour-driven development, and general quality assurance principles. You have some experience of solution architecture and would be comfortable designing a simple three-tier application for the cloud, including necessary compute, internal and edge networking and security features.

Our Promise to You

We pride ourselves on challenging conventional thinking and making the impossible possible. If you share our positive approach, this is a career move that will open doors for you.

We will also take care of your long-term career progress, whether your ambitions take you upwards, or sideways into different areas of the business. Our benefits package gives you generous pension and life insurance, up to 33% discount on instore shopping and 50% off work clothes, 25 days’ holiday and your birthday off.

Uniquely You

At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive.  What makes you unique makes us exceptional.

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