Senior DevOps Engineer, Clinical Software

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Clinical Systems Development team in our pioneering R&D facility in Wilmslow!

Clinical Systems Development develop Waters Clinical and IVD Systems, Hardware and Software. This is a unique opportunity to get involved in a new organisation, with a mission to delivering customer benefit in the clinical market segment through the evaluation, development and deployment of innovative clinical system capabilities.

By joining our team, you will lead and deliver DevOps best practices, build and evolve CI/CD pipelines, implement monitoring for automated system metrics and maintain automation frameworks, environments and approaches to ensure that software generated by the company is fit for purpose and meets the customers’ needs.

What can we offer you?

• A plan for your personal development in your own area of specialism, pursuing this with the support of your manager to undertake the training and learning to progress!
• Flexible working and a hybrid approach
• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave
• Private health and dental insurance
• Contributory based pension scheme
• Subsidized membership of onsite gym
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

What will be your responsibilities?

• Continuously improve and refine the build & deployment process to maintain a CI build environment capable of running automation tests for effective feedback.
• Assist in designing, developing and implementing automation test frameworks.
• Develop and improve our monitoring and observability tooling.
• Coach and mentor team mates to improve their own DevOps skills and experience
• Research emerging tools, trends and methodologies
• Assist in managing checked in source code from check-in through to product release.
• Assist in planning and coordination of build activities to meet scheduled build deadlines.
• Maintaining successful build delivery, including debugging of failed builds and feeding back failure information to the teams.
• Provide training and support to the teams from all sites on how to use the software development and deployment toolsets.
• Work closely with Software Managers, Senior Developers/Testers, and Product Owner’s to understand functional requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure the build of quality products.
• Advocate testing and automation best practice across the department
• To present updates to development teams and stakeholders on progress and changes.
• Be proactive in seeking and driving new efficiency improvements that enable faster delivery of quality software to stakeholders and customers.
• To carry out all responsibilities in accordance with the Quality Policy and all applicable procedures

We'd love to hear from you if you have: 

• A degree (or equivalent experience) in a science, engineering, or computing-related discipline.

• Experience of using the following technologies:
  • Continuous integration applications
  • Software build tools – Github, Actions
  • Static Analysis Tools - SonarQube
  • Scripting – Shell, Power Shell
  • Knowledge of Virtualisation – VmWare, VirtualBox
  • Enterprise use of Git and / mercurial or Bitbucket
  • Monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Sensu and Grafana
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
  • Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
  • Unit and Automation tests – SpecFLow, TestComplete, Gerkin.
  • Automated builds systems – Visual Studio, Linux
  • Installer and deployment applications – WIX, InstallShield

• Excellent communication and decision-making skills.

• A creative approach to solving complex technical problems.

• Worked within fast paced, innovative company and able to balance the need for rapid delivery with stability of systems, maintained through procedures and documentation

• The ability to work independently and proactively, with minimal supervision.

In addition to salary, we work flexibly, and provide 25 days holidays, excellent family friendly benefits such as attractive employer pension contribution, life assurance, income protection and private medical. With Waters, there are plenty of opportunities for you to grow, develop and contribute.

We're actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We aim to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.

We can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs.

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in analytical instruments, separations technologies, and software, serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for over 65 years. Our Company helps ensure the efficacy of medicines, the safety of food and the purity of water, and the quality and sustainability of products used every day. In over 100 countries, our 7,600+ passionate employees collaborate with customers in laboratories, manufacturing sites, and hospitals to accelerate the benefits of pioneering science. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.