Contract Type: Full Time
Information about role:
Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) relies on a wide range of technologies. As a Senior DevOps Engineer for our Cloud Platforms, you will help to shape our new ways of working to support and develop national systems that support CTP operations to keep the country safe.
If you want to contribute to something that matters, this could be the role for you. Using your technical skills and experience you will help to support and develop our cloud platforms as part of a new team of DevOps engineers. You will also be a key player in embedding agile and DevOps ways of working, across the team and other stakeholders, whilst supporting and improving business as usual operations alongside project delivery teams. With your skills, we can make sure that critical systems are available and secure so CTP can operate at its best.
Working flexibly, as required, from home, our operations centre located east of Birmingham (with easy access from the M6 and M42) or from our London based HQ. You’ll be part of our Customer Service Centre (CSC) team providing technical support for all our national services. Please note this role may require a future on-call support commitment.
Day to day, you’ll work on supporting live services running on our public cloud environments and developing functionality to support project teams’ deliverables. We’ll expect you to meet key standards, SLAs, best practice, and security procedures. Experience with agile delivery in technically diverse enterprise environments would be beneficial.
Job Description
As a skilled Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll possess a wide range of technical experience with your own areas of developed specialisms. An understanding of cloud platform technologies and security, preferably with Microsoft Azure/365 and AWS Platforms is essential. You should be technically creative and driven to continuously improve services. You should be comfortable explaining technical requirements to stakeholders who may not be technically literate and able to deputise for the Lead DevOps Engineer as required.
As this is a new team, we will be developing new ways of working and you should be keen to learn and develop both technical and supporting skills as required. Practical knowledge of infrastructure as code via Terraform would be beneficial as would any other relevant support or development experience.
This is a flexible role with home and office working available dependent on business needs.
There may be occasional travel to other UK sites for business purposes and overnight accommodation will be provided when required. We promote a positive work life balance but occasionally a flexible approach to working hours is essential due to the nature of the role.
Discover a fascinating role that is at the heart of protecting the UK public. In return, you can look forward to other benefits including generous annual leave, Civil Service pension arrangements, flexible working conditions, a formal training plan and training options.
Responsibilities:
- Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery.
- Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.
- Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to operational and delivery teams and solving complex problems.
- Take a leading role in the development and operation of the cloud infrastructure:
- Provide project oversight to ensure standards are met.
- Work with developers and engineers to ensure that software development follows established processes and works as intended.
- Ensure personal and team workload is effectively managed, prioritised and issues are escalated to line management as necessary.
- Ensure adherence to required polices, standards, controls, and best practice.
- Create, maintain, and review technical documentation to ensure all services are maintained and knowledge is shared.
- Proactively monitor cloud environments to help prevent and resolve issues arising.
- Proactively drive continuous improvement across cloud services.
- Assist in mentoring and developing the team.
- Deputise for the Lead DevOps Engineer (Cloud Platform) as required.
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