DevOps Engineer

Location: Basingstoke Hybrid with 1 or 2 days per week at home. This role requires candidates to be eligible and willing to undergo a high level of security clearance.

Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. Do you want to make an impact and change the way the world works? Do you want to collaborate and achieve together with committed people as part of a multi-skilled agile team, where teamwork is paramount? The role will be challenging and varied, where cross-training is expected, and challenges shared.

Brief Overview: The role will involve working as part of a dedicated DevOps team responsible for the BAU delivery of the SPAAS service into the Home Office. It will entail activities associated with maintaining, configuring, developing, documenting, and supporting solutions and offerings on an exciting new project utilising cutting-edge technologies and development methodologies. The work will include infrastructure automation, integration, testing, and operation with new feature development and support and maintenance. Working alongside a team of professionals, you will be driven to find better, faster, and more effective solutions.

The role will require support out of hours as part of regular on-call support for the platform as well as support to the LBO (Large Binary Object) Transfer and Scanning solution that is being transitioned into Service. The successful candidate will be expected to be part of this level of support as and when it is required, which will be agreed with the team lead.

This is a fast-paced environment where you will have the chance to grow and build upon your existing knowledge and ability. This is your world and your opportunity to transform it for the better.

Your experience:

• A demonstrable understanding of the full Software Delivery Lifecycle
• Experience working closely with IT Operations, IT Development, and IT Service teams to promote DevOps culture
• Experience in working closely with customers
• In-depth understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery, software configuration management, version control, and release management
• Experience in provisioning cloud environments
• Able to work under pressure
• Availability to be on call out of hours on a rota basis

Technical Skills: You will have skills in a number of the below key technologies and have the desire to develop your understanding and skill further:

• Rancher
• Kubernetes
• Ansible, Helm, Terraform
• Linux
• VMware
• Elastic Stack (ELK/ECK)
• Gitlab
• GoLang scripting language
• AWS

Desirable Skills:

• Experience of ITIL and IT Management systems, such as ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence
• Automated testing tools
• Agile project delivery & ceremonies
• Storage solutions

Achieve together: We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer. Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people-centric: Our hybrid work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion.