Senior DevOps

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 211122**Salary**:

- £41,782 - £44,932**Grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- Senior Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HMRC - CDIO - Customs, Borders and International - CDIO Borders & Trade**Type of role**:

- Digital
- Information Technology**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of posts**:

- 4Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Southend-on-Sea, WorthingAbout the job

**Summary**:
At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.

We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you.

If you’ve got a good understanding of the development lifecycle and software testing along with a detailed knowledge of information systems, come and join a team ready to use those skills and help you develop new ones

You can be part of a great team helping HMRC to deliver the Countries essential IT services in a changing world.

We are responsible for developing, delivering and supporting IT solutions for those business areas which manage HMRC’s Customs, Excise and International Trade activities.

**Job description**:
You will be a key member of the delivery team, joining our journey moving from Legacy technology to Cloud based solutions.

This is an exciting and challenging role as well as an opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives by delivering great digital products.

We are looking for individuals who are self-motivated and possess excellent interpersonal skills with a good sense of personal responsibility and accountability for delivering high quality work.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead a small team of technical colleagues and prioritise own workload.
- Develop, share and maintain technical knowledge.
- Work with colleagues to deliver solutions within the required timescales.
- Provide support for live systems, build and maintain the development environments and resolve incidents and problems.
- Provide impact analysis/estimates for enhancements and changes and undertake peer reviews.
- Build, test, document and implement solutions in accordance with the Delivery Framework and to team quality standards.
- Develop and test coding changes in accordance with program specifications and test strategies.

**Essential Criteria**

You will already have knowledge, experience and understanding of:

- version control.
- a wide range of Operating Systems (predominantly RedHat Enterprise Linux).
- a number of the following technologies: Common DevOps tools e.g. Jenkins, Artifactory one of these languages: Unix/Linux shell scripting, Perl, Python. configuration management tools e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Container based infrastructure, Cloud Platforms.

**Desirable Criteria**

Ideally you will also have experience of:

- Monitoring and Logging Software.
- Leading and developing People.

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension

Team members that are moving offices as a result of the Locations Programme will be entitled to a Moves Adjustment Payment for three years where they incur additional costs. This is calculated based on the difference between the costs of travelling to and from the new and old office, over a weekly period. You will get more detail on this as part of targeted locations move communications.

Things you need to know

**Security**:
- See our vetting charter.- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Selection process details**:
Your CV should include your Job History and Previous Skills/experience.

Your 750 word Statement of Suitability should show how you meet the essential criteria for this role, by stating what you have done and how you went about it. This should also demonstrate your suitability for this role.

The sift will be based on your CV and Statement of Suitability.

If you are successful at sift you will be invited to an interview which will be based on experience and suitability for the role.

Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

After interview, a single merit list will be created and you will only be considered for posts in locations you have expressed a preference for. Appointments will be made in strict merit orders inline with the set number of roles in each location.

**Security Update**

If you are successful and transferring from another Government Department, we will carry out a check of your identity, nationality, and immigration status (including the right to work in the UK) and a criminal record check before confirming your