Support Engineer in Southampton

Support EngineerFull timeSalary £43,918.00 - £51,238.00 (dependent on experience)Southampton, Hybrid WorkingOrdnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, and a world-leading geospatial data and technology organisation. As a reliable partner to government, business and citizens across Britain and the world, OS helps its customers in virtually all sectors improve quality of life.OS expertise and data supports efficient public services and infrastructure, new technologies in transport and communications, national security and emergency services and exploring the great outdoors. By being at the forefront of geospatial capability for more than 230 years, we've built a reputation as the world's most inspiring and trusted geospatial partner.About the roleYou'll join one of our Technology Support Teams, which supports and maintains a range of internal ETL services that produce data for our customer delivery platforms.As a Support Engineer, you will help strengthen the resilience, reliability and quality of OS's ETL services by:Maintaining, managing and supporting software and infrastructure that underpin key business activitiesDesigning and implementing improvements to service performance, including automating deployments, right-sizing systems, and extending monitoring and alerting capabilitiesSafeguarding critical services by continually assessing and improving observability, resilience and securityInvestigating and resolving root cause issues, identifying why failures occur, and working with subject matter experts when necessary to fully resolve problemsApplying DevSecOps and SRE principles to improve both services and team capabilityProactively delivering service improvements, ensuring they align with development cycles and Agile workflowsYou'll work closely with Engineers and wider stakeholders every day, collaborating within an Agile environment. To thrive in this role, you'll bring:Strong software development and operational knowledgeExperience supporting scalable cloud-based services, ideally in AzureEffective communication and teamwork skills, enabling smooth collaboration across multiple teamsWhat we're looking forYou will need to demonstrate your track record against the following essential criteria:Experience in coding and engineering practices, for example, creating infrastructure-as-code, software engineering, DevOps methodologies or test automationGenuine passion for continually improving the reliability and stability of operational servicesSupporting and maintaining complex, cloud-based services working within an Agile frameworkSolid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and software engineering best practicesCloud technologies and best practice - ideally in AzureInfrastructure-as-Code - ideally using BicepA track record of continually identifying and implementing service improvements or observabilityExperience of coaching and mentoring other team members and providing consultancy to other teamsAdditionally, you will provide expert technical consultancy to enable the business to successfully use IT systems, supporting Project Teams by advising on the performance, configuration and functionality of existing systems. You will ensure that new or updated systems can be effectively supported from day one. You will also play a key role in developing the technical capability of the team - mentoring, teaching and strengthening shared knowledge, skills and engineering practice.Here is a snapshot of the technologies that we useAzure Cloud (AppServices, Function Apps, DataFactory, Batch, EntraID, AzureML, etc.)Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Bicep templates, CLI, PowerShell, Artefacts)Python/C#Azure DatabricksGit, YAMLPowerBIESRI ArcGIS, FME, QGIS, etc.Key detailsClosing date: Thursday 2nd July at 23:59Interview Information: Candidates are required to complete a SOVA personality assessment and a practical exercise in advance of the interview. These will form part of the interview discussion. #J-18808-Ljbffr