Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving real transformation change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.
About the role:
As the DevOps Engineer, you’ll be joining a dedicated team responsible for delivering a core automation roadmap — part of an enterprise-wide effort to improve our build processes, deployment patterns, and infrastructure scalability. This role will focus specifically on the Windows and IIS stack, with a heavy emphasis on automation and optimising deployment pipelines using PowerShell, Terraform, and Azure DevOps tools.
You’ll help redesign our deployment patterns from the ground up, supporting everything from development through to performance environments. With a DevOps mindset, you’ll contribute to a more agile, responsive way of working that reduces friction, streamlines release processes, and ultimately enables faster delivery of change.
As the DevOps Engineer, you will:
- Supporting the implementation of the Roadmap, focused on automating build and deployment processes
- Designing and maintaining automation for cloud platform modules using Terraform
- Creating and maintaining application deployment scripts using PowerShell
- Installing, configuring, and securing IIS servers and web applications
- Managing artefact repositories (code, binaries) and deploying packages to IIS
- Enabling cloud-native monitoring and supporting automated observability practices
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to align on patterns and common working practices
- Participating in Agile ceremonies and contributing to product roadmaps
- Demonstrable experience in Windows Server administration and web application deployment
- Strong hands-on experience with PowerShell scripting for automation
- Proven experience with IIS configuration: setting up websites, application pools, bindings, and implementing security measures (SSL/TLS, access controls)
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code
- Experience deploying artefacts to IIS and managing end-to-end automation pipelines
- An Agile, team-focused mindset with a drive for continuous improvement and collaboration
At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success. We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life. In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package:
Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.
Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.
A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more…..
At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us.
If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.
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