Infrastructure Engineer in England

HMRC is looking for two Infrastructure Engineers for the Multi-channel Digital Tax Platform which sits within the Chief Enterprise Platform Office and is the backbone of HMRC citizen facing services.

Purpose of the Role

The Platform is built and operated by a number of specialist teams and you will be placed on an established team of DevOps practitioners. We consider DevOps to encompass an approach to work that combines the ability to test, write and review code, alongside the capacity to troubleshoot operational problems in the cloud technologies we use. This becomes extremely effective when operating in agile teams, collaborating to achieve continuous delivery using open source software. All coding work will be done as part of a programming pair, and you must be adept at collaborating with others. All code will be stored with distributed source control, allowing wide collaboration across the department and beyond. The tools we use for metrics, logging and alerting, as well as configuration management and continuous integration are all open source, and you will need to be experienced at using these common tools, as well as investigating and quickly mastering new options as the PaaS continues to iterate and evolve.

Reporting Line

You will have a Civil Servant Line Manager, but your daily work will be managed by your Team’s Product Owner and Delivery Lead (who will likely be a mix of Civil Servants and Contractors).

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain design and troubleshooting documentation.
• Improve the reliability of the platform.
• Build, maintain and continually improve the tools that we use to deploy and operate the software that we build. This includes automated build and deployment, secrets management, system observability, monitoring, log aggregation, scaling, and more.
• Develop tools and services useful in DevOps environments such as performance monitoring, security monitoring, deployment/configuration, continuous integration/build servers and cloud resource creation scripts.
• Contribute towards the ongoing development of junior colleagues.
• Seeking out opportunities to transfer knowledge from experienced developers.
• Experience operating on large scale government platform with multiple agents.
• 2 years of knowledge of at least one programming language and IaC (Infrastructure as code), preferably including Python and/or Terraform.
• Comfortable coding with distributed source control, such as Git and Git based workflows.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Government Administration

Please apply directly at Civil Service Jobs through the link.

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