Junior DevOps Engineer - IPO - EO

Are you passionate about collaborative working and problem solving? Do you enjoy using your technical skills to help teams work more effectively, and get software into the hands of users with speed and stability? Are you looking for a new role in an organisation that treats you as an individual and supports you on your professional and career development journey? Then this is the role for you!

We have an exciting opportunity to join our DevOps Enablement team, within the Platform Engineering group, during the IPO digital transformation journey. Working within an established team, this role provides an opportunity to turn innovative ideas into customer value using a range of technologies and delivery platforms.

Working Style

This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office.

The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.

Job description

Main duties consist of but are not limited to:

• Provide supervised assistance to apply and implement DevOps principles, processes, and best practices.
• Assist with development and implementation of automated, repeatable, and efficient build and release pipelines.
• Act as the DevOps engineer for Releases and troubleshooting of issues, with support from other engineers.
• Providing administration, configuration and troubleshooting support for CI & CD pipelines and hosted container applications.
• Assist with delivery, integration, administration, and configuration of DevOps tools. This includes tools for source control, build, CI & CD, code reviews, security scans, configuration automation, test automation, artefact management and monitoring.
• Assist with reviews and quality checks for newly delivered code and be an advocate for security and performance standards in the organisation.
• Assist in implementing and configuring DevOps specific monitoring, alerting, auditing and notification strategies.
• Contributing to technical decisions and directions in a collaborative team environment, including estimations, product planning and user stories.
• Attending Team and Agile Scrum meetings.

Person specification

Essential criteria

• Awareness of DevOps principles and iterative development principles.
• Awareness of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) concepts and orchestration tools.
• Awareness of automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrable problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Usage experience of source control tools such as Git.
• Demonstrable ability to follow and continuously improve processes.
• Demonstrable technical experience (development, infrastructure, or cloud) or equivalent degree/training.

How to apply

Click the 'Apply now' button and complete the application form by providing the following:

CV
Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV. This will assess your suitability for the role therefore please evidence the essential requirements listed in the person specification above.

For further information on the sift and interview stages of this recruitment campaign, please head to our 'Things you need to know' section below.

Please visit our Civil Service Careers page - IPO – Recruitment Support , Civil Service Careers (civil-service-careers.gov.uk)

If you require job-specific information, please contact Dominic Reed.
E-mail: Dominic.reed@ipo.gov.uk
Telephone: 01633 433189

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Technical Essential