Head of Platform Engineering

1 month ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Full time

Job summary

The Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) is a new shared corporate service, launched in July 2023. It provides corporate services (HR, Finance, Digital, Commercial, Security and Estates) across the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT).��

Our team of just over 300 professionals will be leading the way in how these functions will be delivered in the future. Our ambition is to be the leading provider of integrated corporate services for government and set the standard for quality, efficiency, and innovation in our field.�

We offer great working benefits including a world-class pension, flexible working options and a career where your learning and development is taken seriously. We are�enormously proud�to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We supportcandidates with adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Information about disability confidence and just some examples of the adjustments that you can request can be found in the reasonable adjustment section below.��

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is�

found. To learn more please see the�Civil Service People Plan�and the�Civil Service D&I Strategy.�

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Job description

Join ICS Digital, where innovation meets expertise to create digital solutions. We are a cohesive digital community who work in the open, solving problems together and fostering a culture of transparency and collaboration. Our commitment to user-focused design and data-driven decision-making ensures that we deliver accessible services tailored to the needs of our customers.

ICS Digital provides a number of hosting platforms and cloud-based services to support the wider department as the Head of Platform Engineering, you will play a crucial role in leading and managing the development and operation of our Enterprise Hosting Platforms made up of both AWS and Azure. You will lead on the development and encourage uptake of our platform tooling solution developed upon AWS to support developers with delivering innovative solutions at pace, you will expand the tooling platform to support Azure and work towards reducing the number of cloud hosting platforms and services to build a reliable service offering for the department

You will provide leadership, strategic vision and management of an expanding team of technical engineering specialists. You will be responsible for the day to management of a team of circa eight platform engineers and platform developers. You will work closely with the Head of Architecture/Cyber and our ICS Digital Delivery colleagues.���

Person specification

Key responsibilities

� Develop strategic and tactical engineering roadmaps for technologies and services in your area of responsibility, ensuring they�re future-proofed and derives maximum value from investment in technologies.
� Work with technical architects to translate the architectural designs into operations and support them in operationalising the designs.
� Lead, direct and maintain the capability of infrastructure specialist teams in building, managing, supporting and maintaining solutions according to policy.
� Supporting integrations with other products and new services into production.
� Review current implementation plans, ways of working and identify improvements.

Skills and experience

� Experience as an Infrastructure Engineer or similar role showing Technical Proficiency in cloud technologies such as AWS & Azure.
� Extensive experience of building, maintaining and deploying enterprise monitoring and alerting tooling across complex environments.
� Senior leadership skills.
� Experience developing strategic and tactical engineering roadmaps for technologies and services and can identify, test, and champion the adoption of emerging technologies.
� Managing operational relationships between internal stakeholder and critical third-party suppliers and align services to best practices and regulatory requirements.

It is unusual that candidates will meet all of the desirable criteria. If your skills and experience look slightly different from what we have identified and you think you can bring value to the Head of Platform Engineering role and the team, we strongly encourage you to apply. We'd love to hear from you

Please, no recruitment agencies.

Behaviours

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

Communicating and InfluencingDeveloping Self and Others

Technical skills

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

Benefits

Alongside your salary of �64,350, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes �17,374 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.Automatic enrolment into the , with an average employer contribution of 27%.A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.

Office attendance

The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.

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