At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to optimise infrastructure and enhance CI/CD processes for secure web services.
- Company: Join a government commercial agency focused on innovative tech solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career development, and opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies.
- Other info: Dynamic role with excellent growth potential in a supportive environment.
- Why this job: Shape the future of tech while making a real impact in public service.
- Qualifications: Experience with Terraform, AWS, and leading diverse teams.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Location: Birmingham, Liverpool, Newport (Gwent), Norwich
Job Summary: You'll be instrumental in shaping the future of our technical landscape, focusing on vital infrastructure evolution, optimising environments, and refining CI/CD processes. Leading a dedicated infrastructure team, you’ll be building the foundations on which our core systems operate, offering crucial technical guidance to colleagues and internal customers, and actively developing individuals to foster their growth.
Our Tech Stack Includes:
- Cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform
- Containerisation: Docker, AWS ECS and EKS
- CI/CD deployments: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
- Application code: Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript, .NET
Responsibilities:
- Help build and run user‑centred, product‑led secure web services to serve a variety of customer, supplier and internal needs.
- Configure, maintain and monitor all IaaS resources within AWS environments.
- Collaborate with team members, delivery partners and service providers on delivery milestones to ensure smooth implementation of new and enhanced services.
- Authoring and maintaining infrastructure as code written using Terraform and validating and approving code written by other teams.
- Assist in the reviews of BCP / DR and Backup Plans and suggest changes or make amendments where necessitated by changes to the IT Infrastructure.
- Develop tool chains as part of a CI/CD DevOps process and assist other colleagues in their use and support.
- Keep abreast of Cloud technologies in the IaaS, PaaS and SaaS arenas.
Qualifications:
- Experience managing infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform and version control technologies such as Git.
- Experience designing, building, securing and managing production services running in AWS (including ECS, EC2, VPC, Postgres, ELB, S3).
- Experience with a programming language such as Go, Python, Ruby or Javascript.
- Line manager experience / capability leading mixed skillset teams.
- Experience of working with container orchestration, continuous delivery methods and deployment processes.
We think you need these skills to ace Lead DevOps Engineer - Government Commercial Agency - G7 in Manchester
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Azure)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Containerisation (Docker, AWS ECS, EKS)
CI/CD Deployments (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
Programming Languages (Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript, .NET)
User-Centred Design
Monitoring and Maintenance of IaaS Resources
