Junior DevOps Engineer in London

This Junior DevOps Engineer position will report to the DevOps Engineer and will work within the Strategy, Regulation and Support Services directorate based in our London office. You will be a permanent employee. You will attract a salary of £40,000.00 and a bonus of 7.5%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote.

We also provide the following additional benefits:

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid.
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%).
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan.
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes.
• Occupational Health support.
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products.
• Discounted gym membership.
• Employee Assistance Programme.

About UK Power Networks:

UK Power Networks is an electricity distribution network operator, responsible for delivering electricity to over 8 million customers across London, the South East, and East Anglia. Our mission is to guarantee a safe, reliable, and efficient supply of electricity while allowing the transition to a low-carbon economy. We integrate new technologies and innovative solutions to meet the evolving needs of our customers and the environment.

About The Analytics & DevOps Team:

Our Analytics team is an important part of UK Power Networks, collaborating with all directorates to guide data-related innovations. We are deeply embedded within the various teams, working hand-in-hand to understand their visions, align on project scopes, and develop actionable insights and tools. Our role extends beyond delivery as we also focus on maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure that supports our analytics initiatives.

We are NOT a traditional analytics team. Most people see us as an internal consulting team or an analytics start-up. We are close knit, supportive, dynamic, work in agile ways, big on feedback and driven to constantly improve and do better. Our mandate is to be a supportive, challenging friend to the business, thinking creatively, to bring new approaches, methods and ways of thinking to some of the industry's biggest problems.

We are encouraged to innovate, with our primary aims consisting of quantifying the scale of an improvement should the recommended actions be undertaken, and to continuously support the business for the implementation of those recommendations.

Role Overview:

As a Junior DevOps Engineer, you will support the development and maintenance of digital solutions that help the business to accelerate its digital transformation. You'll work within a collaborative Analytics & DevOps team, helping to build and maintain models, dashboards, automation workflows and applications that drive operational efficiency and innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Support the building, maintenance, and optimisation of machine learning models, interactive dashboards, and Plotly Dash applications deployed in production environments.
• Help manage and enhance our GitHub space, ensuring code quality, version control, and collaboration among team members.
• Help manage CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and monitoring of applications.
• Collaborate with the Analytics team to design and support infrastructure solutions that enable efficient development and deployment workflows.
• Troubleshoot and resolve basic issues related to infrastructure, deployments, and application performance.
• Learn and apply DevOps best practices, including configuration management and automated testing.

What We Offer:

• Innovation and Impact: Be part of a forward-thinking team that is driving innovation and making a tangible difference in the energy sector.
• Professional Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning and development within a dynamic and supportive work environment.
• Competitive Salary and Benefits.

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience working with Python (essential).
• Basic proficiency in managing code repositories (branching, merging, code reviews).
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools (GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps).
• Some experience with TDD / BDD.
• Some experience building or maintaining dashboards, web applications, or machine learning models and/or integration between components (e.g. API).
• Some experience working with cloud-based architecture (Azure experience is a plus).

Qualifications:

• We are looking for someone who is passionate about DevOps and shows potential; while degree or relevant certifications can help, these are not essential.
• Python.
• GitHub or Azure DevOps.
• CI/CD concepts.
• Cloud concepts.
• Data integration techniques.
• Databricks (advantageous, but not essential).
• Plotly Dash (advantageous, but not essential).
• PowerBi (advantageous, but not essential).
• Azure (advantageous, but not essential).

Health & Safety Responsibilities:

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

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We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us at careers@ukpowernetworks.co.uk quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.