Position Overview & Specifications

Company Description

At Frasers Group we’re rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we’re serving our consumers with the world’s best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. We’re elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.

IT at Frasers Group is delivered by the in-house team who are passionate about what they do and are not dependent on outsourced organisations to deliver the core systems. There is a wealth of opportunity for training as well as on the job learning. We have a £5,000 per head annual training budget, as well as a bonus scheme where 8 peer nominated winners can earn double their monthly salary.

Job Description

This role is available on a mainly remote basis with occasional Shirebrook office presence when required

You will be joining our newly formed Technology Enablement team – a team who drive innovation and creativity across our wider IT function. Our mission is to build, define and deploy development best practices, and to be a central resource for adapting and rolling out best practice across the business.

We are right at the start of our DevOps journey- you will be defining and creating a DevOps powerhouse to help our product teams deliver high quality software quicker.

Working with our engineering and infrastructure teams to gather and translate requirements into deliverable solutions
Migrating applications into Docker ready for Container Orchestration with Kubernetes
Implementing CI/CD processes for releasing software across different environments.
Designing, implementing and testing new and existing Infrastructure as Code solutions
Using public/private cloud solutions to solve business problems
Reviewing and improving our end-to-end DevOps stack. Automating and simplifying components
Troubleshooting complex environments with curiosity and creativity. Learning and implementing solutions

Qualifications

3+ years in modern DevOps environments
Keen to drive adoption of new technologies and techniques
Docker / Kubernetes, both for CI / CD, and orchestrating in production with ECS / Fargate, AKS, OpenShift or Anthos
AWS/Microsoft certified with skills in a second cloud platform
Building deployment pipelines- GitHub
Building automation tools such as NPM, Gradle or Maven
Setting up and managing Cloud native environments using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), within AWS and / or Azure
Delivering containerised, serverless, and virtualised infrastructures
Comfortable with PowerShell, Python, Go, Bash or Ruby

Additional Information

An opportunity like this at Frasers is for the fearless. The potential is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles: