Associate DevOps

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

- 413430

**Salary**:

- £37,300 - £44,191
- New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the salary band minimum: £37,300 for National Roles. £41,300 for London Roles.
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- HO - Digital Data and Technology - Engineering

**Type of role**:

- Digital
Information Technology

**Working pattern**:

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

**Number of jobs available**:

- 3

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Manchester M5 3LZ, Croydon CR0 2WF, Sheffield S3 8NU

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
**Job description**:
Associate DevOps is responsible for supporting our platforms. Your role is to resolve tickets relating to the maintenance of the platforms, often needing to make updates to resolve the issues reported.

You will work under the guidance of your technical peers, developing your understanding of our platforms, pipelines and automation approaches.

**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: C#, Python
- Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript
- Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB
- DevOps: Kubernetes, Azure, Docker, Terraform, Azure DevOps
- Other: Azure OpenAI Studio, Power Platform, PowerBI

**What you will do**

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

- Writing scripts to deliver/work with our platforms, such as developing docker/terraform/ansible files for a variety of systems/frameworks.
- Providing technical support functions, solving more challenging platform use and configuration issues.
- Providing feedback to project teams on platform use; supporting routine monitoring activities.
- Advising developers on how they should use existing systems and configure CI/CD pipelines.
- Ensuring working to our appropriate standards, ensuring high service quality.

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

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

**Essential criteria**

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for DevOps, with the following skills or some experience in:

- Designing, coding, testing, maintaining, and documenting simple scripts to automate build and deployment activities. **(Lead sift criteria)**:

- Assisting with design and implementation of cloud components using AWS or Azure.
- Assisting with implementation of automated testing, scanning and/or code analysis tooling.
- Implementing and maintaining simple CI/CD pipeline steps.
- Assisting with cloud resource data management, such as naming, tagging, metadata, backups, and documentation.

**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)

**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 2
- Programming/software development (PROG) - Level 2
- Testing (TEST) - Level 2
- Systems integration and build (SINT) - Level 2
- Data management (DATM) - Level 3
- Application support (ASUP) - Level 3

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £37,300, Home Office contributes £10,805 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

**Why work for us...**
- A highly competitive pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- 25 days annual leave on appointment rising 1 day per year up to 30 days, plus 8 days public holidays and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.
- Flexible working options to enable you to achieve the work life balance that is right for you including; Full time, part-time, flexi time, compressed hours and job sharing.
- A hybrid working model of a minimum 60% of your contracted hours in the workplace and 40% remote.
- Training and development opportunities tailored to your role, including access to technical and professional accreditations.
- A capability allowance reviewed annually.
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
- Enhanced parental leave schemes.
- Annual performance-based bonus and recognition awards.

This link is to a short guide to employee benefits: Benefits - Home Office C