Senior DevOps Engineer - HSE - SEO

At the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), we believe everyone has the right to come home safe and well from their job. We use world-leading science to prevent work-related death, injury and ill health. We don’t just inspect and investigate; we also provide advice and training to organisations. All this together means we help keep people safe, boost productivity, support the UK economy and contribute to a fairer society.

Technology, data, and digital services underpins everything that HSE does. We are a knowledge organisation, with a wealth of experience in keeping people safe. It is the responsibility of the Information and Technology Services (ITS) Division to ensure that everyone in the organisation can access our data and information, to share it and to use it to make effective decisions. We support over 3000 colleagues working in a hybrid style at home and in 26 offices across Great Britain. Our services keep inspectors functioning effectively and efficiently on industrial sites nationwide, from oil platforms in the North Sea to our deepest mines and quarries.

Job description

We have an opportunity to recruit two Senior DevOps Engineers to join the DevOps Team in the ITS Division. The DevOps Team comprises of internal and outsourced capabilities. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will thrive and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or many projects. You will be supporting existing cloud-based services, assisting in the design, and delivery of new cloud-based services as we expand HSE’s digital services in Azure, adhering to GDS principles and using Agile principles.

Key Responsibilities:

• As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will help to develop the capability of HSEs newly formed multi-skilled DevOps Team to manage the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate.
• You will help establish and then operate DevOps processes, establishing a regime and culture of continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD).
• You will work closely with the development and test communities as we strive to automate our processes and implement new tooling.
• You will support the design, implementation and management of solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable and maintainable within our cloud environment.
• You will deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE. 

You are required to work a 37 hour week based on a 5 day working week and 7.4 hours day. The working week is between 07:00 and 19:00 Monday to Friday. There is the possibility of Saturday working between 07:00 and 19:00. As far as possible your Line Manager will agree your working pattern(s) with you including any Saturday working. There may be times when you are required to work additional hours and/or a late shift to accommodate operational needs or unplanned events. Where it is necessary for operational reasons to vary your ‘normal’ working pattern(s), you will be notified by your manager in advance.

You may be required to be on an on-call rota for which you will receive an out of hours payment.

Person specification

Essential Skills & Criteria:

• Experience of implementing and administering cloud-based solutions in Microsoft Azure, utilising IaaS or PaaS based services.
• Experience of building and optimising CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Experience using scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell).
• Experience of creating and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Bicep, ARM templates) in a source control management system.
• Experience of managing the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate.
• Experience of setting up monitoring and alerting of live cloud services.
• Experience of Line Managing junior members of staff

This post offers a hybrid working pattern where work can be split between your home and your local HSE office, details of which can be discussed prior to taking up the role. You will be required to travel to other offices depending on project work needs and also occasionally to Redgrave Court for workshops and Team meetings.

Behaviours

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

• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace