Principle Infrastructure Engineer

3 weeks ago


Cardiff, United Kingdom UK Civil Service Full time

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity in our Digital & Technology team. We are looking for an enthusiastic Principle Infrastructure Engineer with great technical leadership, technical skills and a drive to improve.

You will be responsible for feeding into the strategy of the Companies House platform team approach, designing and delivering the infrastructure, tooling and standards to support a continuous delivery approach within Companies House. You will be user and service focused ensuring that value is delivered through improvement and automation of platform services.

To find out more about what a great place Companies House is to work visit�

Job description

The position is a technical role within the infrastructure profession and responsible for technical leadership and expertise, system design, standards creation, maintenance and enforcement. Commercial and technical guidance to the wider platform team. The platform teams are responsible for the automation, provisioning and delivery of Companies House platforms and environments as well as the cloud estate. The platform team also provides DevOps support to scrum teams and projects. The role will balance leading on delivery at pace whilst maintaining a service availability focus.

You will be responsible for leading, directing and contributing to the strategy of the Companies House platform team approach, delivering the infrastructure and tooling to support a continuous delivery approach within Companies House. You will be user and service focused ensuring that value is delivered through improvement and automation of platform services.

In addition, you will:

Work closely with the Enterprise Infrastructure Engineer and Platform architect to ensure systems are designed to agreed standards and specifications Lead and advise technically to the wider platform team on approaches to workstreams and standards creation and maintenanceHorizon scan for any new technology or toolsets to improve on current processes. Also look for potential future issuesLearn new skills and develop your career working on diverse projects with a focus on continuous improvement.Work closely with Digital and Data colleagues of all disciplines to design, implement and improve a resilient platform architecture which can be scaled to accommodate service demand, ensuring appropriate logging, monitoring and alerting are in place.

The nature of this post may occasionally require you to do overtime during the week and at weekends.

Person specification

We are looking for the following experience and technical skills, which will be assessed at sift and interview.� Please refer to the experience and technical sections when writing your personal statement.��

Experience - refer to this section in your personal statement

We are looking for someone with experience in:

Infrastructure build and release within a microservices architecture.Supporting Infrastructure on cloud data platforms.Automation of manual processes, including code deployment and environment provisioning.Rapid delivery of user centric services whilst focussing on performance, reporting and alerting.Technical guidance of technical teams and collaborative working using an inclusive approach to delivery of objectives.Commercial or contract experience with technology desirable but not essential.

Technical Skills�- refer to this section in your personal statement

Experience of Cloud technologies, (preferably AWS) automation technologies and Unix/Linux are essentialExperience of some the following; Terraform, Concourse, Ansible, MongoDB. Experience in similar technologies will be considered.

Behaviours

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

Working TogetherManaging a Quality ServiceMaking Effective Decisions

Benefits

Alongside your salary of �42,991, Companies House contributes �12,454 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Please note that the minimum salary does not reflect the 2023/24 pay deal and we are therefore expecting this to increase in the near future.

We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we�re committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.�

Head to� to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House.��

We celebrate diversity...�

As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring we�re representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfil our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We also welcome applications from Welsh speakers.�

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the��and the�

Where will you be working?

You will be aligned to our Cardiff Office, where we are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work. Our approach to hybrid working provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. The degree of choice you have will depend on business need, your role and your day-to-day work activities and will be discussed at offer stage.

We're�currently exploring options for new office space in the Cardiff and surrounding areas as we're due to be moving from our current building - join us on this journey where we can support you in your career and professional growth. Details are still being confirmed about our new building and we're keeping all our colleagues updated.�



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