Contract type – Full Time, Permanent
Band – M
Salary – £60,400 – £65,886
Location – Birmingham
Information about the Role
Counter Terrorism Policing relies on a wide range of technologies, and in this vital role you’ll support the development of our cloud platform for the national systems that underpin our operations. Joining a new team of dedicated engineers, this is a great opportunity to support project delivery and technical development to help us build and support a world-class cloud services platform.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities will include
- Transforming technical requirements into effective technical solutions to enable product delivery, and ensuring deployment strategies are repeatable and scalable.
- Using your technical knowledge as you support delivery teams and end users.
- Testing and deploying product updates, resolving issues, and implementing integrations.
- Create and improve automations and monitoring, and acting as the technical product owner for some parts of our cloud infrastructure.
- Providing project oversight to ensure standards are met, and working with your colleagues to ensure software development follows established processes.
- Ensuring the personal and team workload is effectively managed, prioritised and issues are escalated if necessary.
- Ensuring adherence to required polices, standards, controls and best practice.
- Creating, maintaining and reviewing technical documentation.
- Proactively monitoring cloud environments to help prevent and resolve any issues.
- Driving continuous improvement across cloud services.
- Assisting with the mentoring of junior colleagues and the development of the team.
Knowledge, skills and experience
You should possess a background in modern software engineering or platform infrastructure support, and have a proven track record of creating and maintaining infrastructure as code platforms, cloud environments or similar. Additional knowledge and skills should include:
- The ability to manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
- The skills to ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures, identify capacity issues, stipulate and instigate required changes, and initiate remedial action.
- Good knowledge of process optimisation opportunities and the implementation of proposed solutions.
- An understanding of design solutions and services with security controls embedded, engineered with the mitigation of security threats as a core feature.
- The skills to use agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts, and approach prototyping as a team activity.
- A broad understanding of service support and how to undertake integration testing activities.
- The ability to select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively.
- A readiness to collaborate with user researchers and offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
- A strong understanding of Tier 1 cloud service providers such as AWS and Azure.
- The ability to communicate issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience of supporting services through live operation.
- Good experience of designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and supporting a modern digital service platform in production environments.
- The skills to produce designs that are scalable, resilient, efficient and secure.
- The ability to apply industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and application components.
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