Defence Business Services Senior Engineer

Defence Business Services (DBS) Senior DevOps Engineer

Ministry of Defence

Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 2nd March 2025

Reference number: 387622

Salary: £44,590 – £55,990

Per annum (pro rata)

DSA ALLOWANCE: The base salary for this grade is £44,590. Offers above this will be made up of DSA, Digital Skill allowance of up to £11,400 per annum for exceptional candidates.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Location

Centurion Building – Gosport PO13 9XA

Abbey Wood North – Bristol BS34 8JH

Kentigern House – Glasgow G2 8EX

Tomlinson House – Blackpool FY5 3WP

About the job

Are you a dedicated person who is passionate about making a difference? Would you like to work for the Ministry of Defence? Defence Business Services (DBS) is one of the largest shared service organisations in Europe that provides a wide range of corporate services to over 1.2 million end users, including serving and past military and families, as well as MoD civil servants and industry. DBS delivers large scale administration and smaller specialist services to enable the wider MOD to focus on its core aims, maintaining the UK’s Defence and Security. Services include Human Resources, Pay, Veterans, Finance and Procurement.

• Our Vision – To support UK defence customers with outstanding service every time.
• Our Mission – Together we will proudly support Defence, continuously improving and delivering flexible, timely, sustainable and value for money services that underpin the whole force and enhance operational capability.

DBS is committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues. We are building an inclusive culture and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society. We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us through opportunities to develop your skills and experience. We also offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career accessible to you and offer a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Where your role permits, we support a blended working approach alternatively known as hybrid working. Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments.

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Defence Business Services (DBS), Armed Forces and Veterans Services (AFVS), Development & Change (DevChg) DevOps Team. You will lead a small DevOps (Development and Operations) team of Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) technical specialists, who provide development and support activities to a central AFVS data analytical service within the MoD. Analytical services provide statistical and detailed AFVS reports and dashboards, either directly or by self-serve, to enable the MoD to make informed decisions on military strength or investments, as well as a multitude of other business purposes related to people e.g. recruitment, training, health, pay, allowances, unit, assignment, etc.

DBS AFVS are collaborating with their commercial partners to deliver a major transformation programme aimed at providing a more robust and coherent IT/infrastructure using the latest Oracle Analytical and Data Integration products which will migrate to Cloud based services, offering many benefits, including a better customer experience.

As the successful candidate you will provide senior DevOps engineering skills and leadership of a small DevOps team of data modellers and OAS technical specialists, who provide business enhancement to a major reporting service within the MoD. You will provide OAS technical support, maintenance, and development activities on a large enterprise data warehouse reporting application. You will be part of a wider group responsible for DevChg of the IT capabilities used for AFVS.

The role is primarily to lead the full software delivery lifecycle of change and incident resolution of the MI Reporting Platform Database, currently OAS, with a DevOps and agile delivery focused team.

There are opportunities for training and development to further develop you within the role.

Your responsibilities in this role.

• Mentoring and providing practical support for other team members on all areas of the OAS product and related technical matters.
• Service Operational support of a large enterprise reporting application, working within an ITIL aligned service management framework.
• As part of a resolver team for OAS incidents, respond efficiently and effectively to service tickets raised, as well as ensuring the team is managing the ticket workload.
• Undertake service improvements with fully documented responses to new business requirements, problem remediation and improvement activities.
• Develop full software capabilities within OAS with full testing and deployment, making use of agile methodologies.
• Represent and champion the AFVS Analytics business area in technical meetings and discussions with the Contractor, product vendor and other MoD departments.
• Collaborate closely with the Contractor resources and technical teams to ensure coherent and effective solutions are developed and support routine monitoring activities.
• Build, maintain, and review technical design documentation for the reporting platform, applying appropriate standards and ensuring high service quality.

Additional information: Salary: 44,590-55,990Frequency: Per yearRemote Job: Fully in-personEmployment type: Full-time #J-18808-Ljbffr