Senior DevOps Engineer Intellectual Property Office-SEO
Government Digital & Data -
Senior DevOps Engineer
Intellectual Property Office
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 22nd September 2024
Details
Reference number
368629
Salary
£44,482 - £54,945
Maximum salary amount includes Recruitment Retention Allowance and Technical Allowances of up to £8,238. Scarce Skills Allowance of up to £6,212 may be applicable. Final salary package will be dependent on skills and experience.
Job grade
Senior Executive Officer
C1
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
IPO - Digital, Data and Technology Directorate
Type of role
Digital
Information Technology
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time
Number of jobs available
1
Contents
Location
Newport
About the job
Job summary
Please note: Applicants should review all aspects of this advert to ensure a thorough understanding. If reviewing via a screen reader, please note that the Job Description, Benefits and How to Apply sections have been emphasised
Job description
Overview of the Senior DevOps Engineer role
About this Role
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 more quickly? 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.
Person Specification
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles and experience of working in a DevOps or iterative development culture.
- Excellent knowledge and proven experience implementing continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) tools, including pipeline design and administration.
- Experience with automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines.
- Demonstrable experience in service support including troubleshooting and incident resolution.
- Experience in identification and tracking of risks and issues.
- Experience of knowledge sharing and mentoring junior members of the team.
Technical Skills
- Substantial development or scripting experience in one or more of the following:
- Python
- Bash
- PowerShell
- Substantial experience in administration and configuration of Azure DevOps Pipelines (preferred) or other CI/CD orchestration tools.
- Substantial experience supporting the build and deployment of, or coding in one or more of the following or equivalent:
- Python
- .Net Core / C#
- NextJs / Node frontend
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform
- Experience in containerisation technologies and platforms such as Docker or Azure container services such as Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps or Azure Container Registry or equivalent.
- Experience in managing and supporting distributed source code repositories (Git).
- Experience of consuming cloud platform resources (Microsoft Azure required).
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 per month working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport office.
Benefits
- Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access
- Access to Microsoft’s ESI training suite
- Pension: 28.97% employer contributions
- Hybrid working
- Substantial support for career progression
- 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments
- You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave
How to apply
Click the 'Apply now' button and complete the application form by uploading an anonymised copy of your current CV.
Your CV will be used to assess your suitability for the role therefore please ensure that you evidence the essential requirements listed in the person specification above.
Please note after the sift stage, candidates may be placed on hold due to a high volume of applications.
For further information on the sift and interview stages of this recruitment campaign, please head to our 'Things you need to know' section below.
For further information around the Civil Service recruitment process, please visit our civil service careers page - IPO – Recruitment Support , Civil Service Careers (civil-service-careers.gov.uk)
Person specification
For a thorough understanding of the role and general day to day duties, please refer to the attached Role Profile.
Alternatively, If you require job-specific information, please contact Dominic Read.
E-mail: dominic.read@ipo.gov.uk
Telephone: 01633 433189
Additional Information
Reserve list
This recruitment campaign will keep a reserve list for 12 months. If you meet the requirements but aren't offered a role, you'll stay on this list. If another suitable position opens up during this time, you may be offered that role.
Expected Recruitment Timeline
- Applications for this role are due to be sifted from week commencing 23rd September 2024.
- Interviews are due to take place virtually via Microsoft Teams (video) and are currently scheduled to start Wednesday 02 October 2024.
