Senior DevOps

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

- 383722

**Salary**:

- £60,300 - £70,730
- London: £64,300 - £70,730, National: £60,300 - £66,330. You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £20,100. New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the pay range minimum.
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Grade 7

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- HO - Digital Data and Technology - Engineering

**Type of role**:

- Digital
Engineering
Information Technology

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time, Compressed hours

**Number of jobs available**:

- 8

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**Benefits**:
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Location
- Croydon CR0 2WF, Manchester M5 3LZ, Sheffield S3 8NU

About the job

**Job summary**:
**Job description**:
The Senior DevOps is responsible for the reliable use of our platforms. Your role is not only to maintain our platforms, but also design and build elements of them, working with our architects and standards. You will also consider the security of platforms, monitoring as necessary.

You will support long or short-term discovery within teams and with developers, helping them understand design constrains, and workforce/cost implications. You will advise on the CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, ensuring those new users are able to deploy with appropriate speed. As necessary you may be working with a team long term to ensure effective working and maintain overall workflows.

The Senior DevOps will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.

**Tools and Technologies we use**:
We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:

- Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power platform
- Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular
- Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra
- DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Service Fabric

**What you will do**

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

- supporting teams in mapping their stories to the available platforms, helping effectively build and deploy secure services.
- undertaking skilled platform build/support activities, such as developing hardened base containers.
- spotting instances where teams are not using best practice; advising around delivery risk.
- supporting engineers in service topology discovery; helping to define QA and deployment pipelines.
- driving adoption of new tools so teams they can improve their integration approaches; developing new or improved support processes for users.

Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.

**Person specification**:
**UK residency and security requirements**:

- **You need to have lived in the UK for the past 5 years**.**

**Essential Criteria**

As a Senior DevOps you will have experience of:

- Specifying and leading the implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines according to best practices **(Lead Essential Criteria).**
- Leading the design, implementation and review of complex cloud solutions using AWS or Azure according to best practices.
- Leading the implementation of automated testing, scanning and code analysis tooling, and advising on best practices.
- Devising and leading implementation of data management processes and standards for cloud resources such as naming, tagging, metadata, backups, and documentation.
- Designing, coding, testing, maintaining and documenting scripts and infrastructure-as-code definitions to automate build and deployment activities.

**SFIA capability framework**

Skills for the Information Age (SFIA) is the technical framework that sets the standard capability and development of all engineering levels in the Home Office. This is a link to the capability framework: All skills A-Z — English (sfia-online.org)

We use set SFIA technical skills to form our interview questions and we will assess you against these technical skills during the selection process.

**SFIA levels of responsibility** - Use the SFIA Levels of responsibility to understand what would be expected for each Technical Skill listed below.

**SFIA Technical Skills**

The essential technical skills listed above are reflective of the Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession Career Framework. Please see below for the relevant skills required for your role.

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

- Software design (SWDN) - Level 4
- Programming/software development (PROG) - Level 3
- Testing (TEST) - Level 3
- Systems integration and build (SINT) - Level