Senior DevOps Engineer-OFGEM
Government Digital & Data -
Senior DevOps Engineer
OFGEM
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 22nd April 2024
Details
Reference number
348483
Salary
£45,614 - £62,699
London £48,331-£62,699 National £45,614-£58,519. Please ensure that you read the Pay and Reward information for civil service and internal colleagues before applying.
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade
Grade 7
Level 2b
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
OFGEM - Corporate Services
Type of role
Architecture and Data
Digital
Engineering
Information Technology
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time
Number of jobs available
1
Contents
Location
Cardiff, Glasgow, London
About the job
Job summary
Use technology to shape the future of the energy industry
As the UK’s regulator for the energy industry, Ofgem works on behalf of energy consumers to ensure that every household and business in the UK can rely on a safe, affordable and environmentally sustainable energy supply. Now that record increases and volatility in global gas prices have put the energy market under severe strain, we’re more than ever looking for ways to innovate and modernise our approach to energy regulation. We are building a Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) driven organisation at Ofgem, and we need the best people involved to help us provide our customers with outstanding experiences,
This is an opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer to take on a central role in our technical community – working to ensure the continuity and resilience of our cloud PaaS/IaaS, working with Kubernetes clusters in Azure. You can expect to be deeply involved in continuous improvements to platforms, including system development, processes design and automation and diagnostics improvements to deliver assurance of platform security, privacy and resilience. You’ll work collaboratively within and beyond the DevOps community, using agile methodologies to securely automate and improve efficiencies between different internal platforms.
It’s a highly innovative working environment – both in terms of the technology we use and the working practices we adopt. We’re revolutionising how data is used within the energy sector making it a core tool in delivering our ambitions of net zero carbon emissions and lower energy prices for consumers.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team testing the boundaries of energy regulation in the UK, and to take your career to the next level.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups. While this is a full-time role, flexible working patterns and job shares are welcome.
Job description
An exciting opportunity for a driven individual to take on an exciting new career challenge.
You'll be working with platform teams to develop, build and configure DevOps tools, technologies, techniques, patterns, and processes, and create trusted pipelines of work from development through to production environments utilising high degrees of automation.
Person specification
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to building the DevOps engineering capability, culture and mind-sets within the organisation
- Coach product and platform teams to higher levels of DevOps capability, to drive continuous improvements and enhancing the end customer experience
- Developing, Testing, Debugging and Troubleshooting of Containized Infrastructure
- Support the set up of DevOps methodologies and tools within platform and product teams and demonstrate technical implementation
- Support the development and establishment of appropriate DevOps
- You will work with the development and operations teams to ensure that the Kubernetes infrastructure is able to handle the company's workloads
Essential Criteria
- Experience of Deployments and Maintaining Azure Kubernetes Pipelines (LEAD)
- Experience of Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (LEAD)
- Experience establishing monitoring systems and alerting procedures.
- Knowledge and experience working with Azure cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes
Desirable Criteria
- Experience with TCP/IP networking protocols and components as implemented in IAAS
- Development experience in config management (i.e Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform)
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- Delivering at Pace
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Please refer to the Candidate Pack and Role Profile attached for full details.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £45,614, OFGEM contributes £12,315 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but is in review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), and upload a copy of your CV anonymising all details where necessary.
You will then be asked to answer 3 Technical Questions evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within these answers how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expect all candidates to abide by these principles. Ofgem take any incidences of cheating very seriously. Please ensure all examples provided are of your own experience. Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant applications will be withdrawn from the process.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name :Jennifer Hughes
- Email :Recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email :Recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk
Attachments
Candidate Pack_Senior DevOps Engineer_348483 Opens in new window(pdf, 1255kB) |
DevOps Engineer Senior_348483 Opens in new window(pdf, 140kB) |
Terms and Conditions Mar 24 Opens in new window(pdf, 318kB) |