Agile DevOps Technologist

1 month ago

West Midlands Combined Authority, United Kingdom Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited Full time

Job Title: Agile DevOps Engineer

Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited is a leading IT Services Consultancy that has partnered with central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Our company has over 30 years of experience and a strong commitment to creating end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.

We believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet. Our team supports our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems.

Key Responsibilities:

  • The development, management, and supporting of the infrastructure that underpins the platforms, applications, and data which support the business.
  • Testing and examining code written by others and providing an approval as part of the governance and review process.
  • Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats when developing by keeping in mind that the systems must be secure by design.
  • Working with the team (business, architecture, engineers, security, data) to ensure that development and delivery follows established processes and works as intended.
  • Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions.
  • Making and guiding effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached with the ability to understand and resolve technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.
  • Communicating effectively across organisational, technical, and political boundaries to understand the context and how to make complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.
  • Understanding of how to expose data from systems (for example through APIs), link data from multiple systems, and deliver streaming services.
  • Ensuring that risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented.
  • Integrating security features in the software development life cycle.
  • Identification and probable security risks, with their mitigating strategies.
  • Implementation of security controls.
  • Monitoring the infrastructure and the threat to security.
  • Ensuring regulatory compliances for standards of security.
  • Faster deployment of secure software.
  • Greater visibility into security risks and threats.
  • Have experience or familiarity with working in an agile delivery methodology.
  • Solid infrastructure design experience for on-prem environments to implement or migrate applications and databases.
  • Have experience with hybrid designs between on-premise and cloud.
  • Solid experience in a range of technologies and be able to make assessments as to what is best to be used for the projects and the organisation. As well as suggest and develop innovative approaches within constrained projects and environments.
  • Strong experience in software development change/release management processes and technical governance to fully understand the typical life cycle and maintenance of live systems.
  • Experience of functional and non-functional testing.
  • Experience with automated deployment of applications, databases and infrastructure.
  • Understanding of the government digital service (GDS) manual and standards across Discovery/Alpha/Beta/Live phases.
  • Being able to provide training, support, and mentoring to the wider business.
  • Knowledge of how to ensure that risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented.
  • Worked as part of a multi-disciplinary project team.
  • Experience implementing SAST and DAST tooling in deployment pipelines like Trivvy and SonarQube.
  • Experience with on-prem DevOps tooling.
  • Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society.

Perks and Benefits:

  • Development - access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme, and training.
  • Wellness - 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme.
  • Flexible Working - including home working and part time.
  • Social - office parties, breakfast Tuesdays, monthly pizza Thursdays, Thirsty Thursdays, and commitment to charitable causes.
  • Time Off - 25 days of annual leave a year, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 extra days each year.
  • Volunteering - 2 paid days per year to volunteer in our local communities or within a charity organisation.
  • Pension - Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution.
  • Discretionary Company Bonus - based on company and individual performance.
  • Life Assurance - of 4 times base salary.
  • Private Medical Insurance - which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included).
  • Worldwide Travel Insurance - which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included).
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay.
  • Travel - season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme.

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