Principal WebOps/DevOps Engineer

1 month ago

Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom Companies House Full time

You will lead an application support team of DevOps/WebOps teams responsible for maintaining and supporting the organisations internal and public facing systems with supporting and developing their capability from transition from WebOps to a DevOps team mindset, helping to shape the right talent and identifying skills gaps within the teams.

** You will also be expected to participate in the on-call rota as duty manager in line with the current on-call agreement to ensure our services remain operational at all times. This on-call element covers 24/7/365 and is an essential requirement of the role.

Key Deliverables:

A strong leader with the ability to motivate and sometimes in difficult times, ensuring a focus on career development and innovation while supporting the wellbeing of colleagues.?Including mentoring and leading less experienced members of the teamTransparent, flexible and proactive in your approach to build productive working relationships with your manager, team and other departments are key for the teams and your success.Managing and delivering business priorities within a complex landscape of process and technology change.?Proven technical background ability to lead a highly skilled hard working team.Lead and support any incident/problem to resolution across IT services.Will be required to do adhoc reporting and data management as and when needed.Making sure availability of web applications to the public target of 99.5% are adhered to.Ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures. You can identify documentation, capacity issues, monitoring, alerting, performance and stipulating the required changes and instigating these. You know how to initiate remedial action across your team and across other areas of Companies House.Keeping abreast and understand the direction for future technologies and the changing architectural landscape within Companies House, and ability to articulate that to your manager and team.We're looking for the following experience and technical skills, which will be assessed at sift and at interview. Please refer to the top 6 points in the experience section, and technical bullet points below when writing your personal statement.

Experience - please refer to the top 6 points (in bold) in your personal statement

Leadership, Mentoring - Technical and ManagerialIncident/Problem resolution managementManaging complex 24x7 high availability Web Applications systemsPreferable development background with experience in scripting, Linux systems, development languages, databases will be an advantage.Understanding of DevOps and Continuous Integration, Delivery methods and techniques.Experience of Performance tuning, monitoring & alertingMentoring and leading less experienced members of the team.?Ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures. You can identify capacity issues, stipulating the required changes and instigating these. You know how to initiate remedial action.You understand the direction for future technologies. You can work on delivery of a model to support and maintain future technologies with your team and the wider IT Services teams.Experience of ensuring high availability of systems , for example we would expect you working with your head of professions to agreed service levels (currently 99.5% availability).? Be at the forefront in the investigation and resolution of incidents, and any write ups. Help resolve any issues that occur and proactively searching for potential solutions ensuring the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate future problems in a timely manner. Rapid delivery of user centric services whilst focussing on performance.? Experience of managing technical teams in a high pressure environment, but able to bond with the team and develop their technical journeys. Experience of designing and delivering quality services to users. By helping us to shape our services, you'll have the opportunity to be at the forefront of digital transformation in government.?? Understanding of Companies House systems and processes would be advantageous but not essential. Technical - please refer to these in your personal statement

Unix & Shell Scripting, XML, Databases - Oracle/Mongo, SQL, Monitoring tools, Terraform, Docker, Github, Kibana, Kafka, Lambda, Apache, Python, Perl, Tomcat CI/CD pipeline tools i.e. Concourse, AWS, Jira, Service now, slack, confluence.

Non technical: Agile Methodologies, and ITIL 4 Foundation.

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

Working TogetherManaging a Quality ServiceMaking Effective DecisionsBenefits

We offer an excellent benefits package that includes:

a generous 30 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege dayenrolment into the with a contribution rate of averaging 28%a range of recognition schemes including instant awards to thank and recognise each other's efforts and contributionsstrong ethos of equality, diversity and inclusiongreat work life balance with flexible and mobile working available for many rolesa pro-active approach to employee wellbeing that allows our employees to flourish and be their best at work and has enabled us to become an platinum accredited employeronline financial support and adviceseasonal flu jabsgenerous maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave allowancesa focus on career development and progressiona number of inclusive network groups to support our colleagues and a great sports and social societycycle to work schemestaff discount schemeholiday play scheme for children3 days paid volunteering leaveNext Steps

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This role closes on 26 August 2024.

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