Companies House
Details
Reference number
338602
Salary
£33,134 - £49,000
Salary range includes the additional allowance. Base salary is £33,134 - £38,000 with an additional DDaT allowance of £4,350 - £11,000 available. The final salary and allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade
Higher Executive Officer
DDaT Senior
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
CH - Digital Services
Type of role
Digital
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Homeworking
Number of jobs available
3
Contents
Location
About the job
Benefits
Things you need to know
Apply and further information
Location
Remote working (anywhere in the UK)
About the job
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity in our Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) team. We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps) with great leadership and technical skills and a drive to improve. This role is a unique opportunity as you will be part of a team implementing the DevOps culture and principles across the business.
The nature of this post may occasionally require you to do overtime during the week and at weekends. There may also be a requirement to take part in an on-call rota providing cover to ensure the services always remain operational.
Most of our Digital workforce are currently working from home or in a hybrid approach and this will also apply to this role. The office base for this role will be our Cardiff Head Office as this is where most of the team are based. As decisions are made regarding hybrid working, successful candidates will be expected to attend the office on occasion. For those candidates who live further afield and not within a commutable distance, we will consider remote working. This can be discussed in more detail with the line manager.
Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 27%.
Job description
The position will be focussed on creating/maintaining effective tooling to help the scrum teams rapidly and reliably deploy and innovate for our customers.
Key Skills for Senior Infrastructure Engineers (DevOps)
Availability and capacity management. You can manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
Coding and scripting. You can show an awareness of the scripting tools and software that are available and currently in use. You can understand how the internet works. (awareness)
Information security. You can understand information security and design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats as a core feature.
IT infrastructure. You can design, implement, administer, and support infrastructure technologies, solutions, and services. These can include computing, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, commercial-off-the-shelf software (COTS), and open-source packages and solutions. They can also include virtual and cloud computing such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).
Modern standards approach. You can competently apply a modern standards approach and guide others to do so.
Problem management. You can initiate and monitor actions to investigate patterns and trends to resolve problems. You can effectively consult specialists where required. You can determine the appropriate remedy and assist with its implementation. You can determine preventative measures.
Service focus. You can take inputs and establish coherent frameworks that work.
Service support. You can demonstrate a breadth of understanding of service support.
Systems design. You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You can select appropriate design standards, methods, and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
Systems integration. You can define the integration build. You can co-ordinate build activities across systems. You can understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities.
Technical understanding. You can show a thorough understanding of the technical concepts required for the role and can explain how these fit into the wider technical landscape.
User focus. You can collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally and explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so and offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
Troubleshooting and problem resolution. You can break a problem down into its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes. You can troubleshoot and identify problems across different technology capabilities.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for delivering the infrastructure and tooling to support a continuous delivery approach within Companies House.
You will be user and service focused ensuring that value is delivered through improvement and automation of platform services.
Working in a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers, a senior infrastructure engineer builds, administers, supports, and maintains solutions as directed and according to departmental policy. Most of the time will be spent working with the delivery teams on carrying out the infrastructure work on development projects. This will include answering any queries regarding environment, configuration, and CI/CD processes.
At this role level, you will:
Ensure services are integrated, delivered, and operated as required.
Work with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations.
Design and develop infrastructure as code, source code repositories and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines to execute change on Cloud environments.
Coordinate opportunities for integration between technologies to meet our organisational milestones using Cloud-based tooling to create reports and management information.
Coach and support colleagues in non-functional requirements, ensuring availability, security, capacity, and performance for the platform and/or service.
Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery.
Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.
Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems.
Person specification
Experience and key skills required:
Awareness of the following skills is desirable - Ansible, Programming Languages (Java and NodeJS), Python.
Working knowledge of the following is desired - Docker, Microservice and Serverless Architecture, Unix/Linux.
A Practitioner level of skill demonstrates you use these skills daily and have a vast experience and examples of these - CI/CD tooling (such as Concourse, Jenkins etc).
Expert level of skill is required for this role - AWS Cloud technology, Terraform, GitHub.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Working Together
Communicating and Influencing
Managing a Quality Service
Delivering at Pace
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £33,134, Companies House contributes £8,946 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Join us at Companies House and experience the difference of working within a culture that values you, not only as an employee, but as an integral part of our Companies House team.
We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we're committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.
Head to Our benefits - Working for us - Recruitment (companieshouse.gov.uk) to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
In your application form we'd like you to:
Tell us about your employment history, including any key responsibilities and achievements.
Write a personal statement of 750 words and address any working experience that correspond to the technical skills outlined in the person specification with a particular focus on the expert and practitioner desirables. These will also be explored at interview.
. click apply for full job details
Details
Reference number
338602
Salary
£33,134 - £49,000
Salary range includes the additional allowance. Base salary is £33,134 - £38,000 with an additional DDaT allowance of £4,350 - £11,000 available. The final salary and allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade
Higher Executive Officer
DDaT Senior
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
CH - Digital Services
Type of role
Digital
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Homeworking
Number of jobs available
3
Contents
Location
About the job
Benefits
Things you need to know
Apply and further information
Location
Remote working (anywhere in the UK)
About the job
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity in our Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) team. We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps) with great leadership and technical skills and a drive to improve. This role is a unique opportunity as you will be part of a team implementing the DevOps culture and principles across the business.
The nature of this post may occasionally require you to do overtime during the week and at weekends. There may also be a requirement to take part in an on-call rota providing cover to ensure the services always remain operational.
Most of our Digital workforce are currently working from home or in a hybrid approach and this will also apply to this role. The office base for this role will be our Cardiff Head Office as this is where most of the team are based. As decisions are made regarding hybrid working, successful candidates will be expected to attend the office on occasion. For those candidates who live further afield and not within a commutable distance, we will consider remote working. This can be discussed in more detail with the line manager.
Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 27%.
Job description
The position will be focussed on creating/maintaining effective tooling to help the scrum teams rapidly and reliably deploy and innovate for our customers.
Key Skills for Senior Infrastructure Engineers (DevOps)
Availability and capacity management. You can manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
Coding and scripting. You can show an awareness of the scripting tools and software that are available and currently in use. You can understand how the internet works. (awareness)
Information security. You can understand information security and design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats as a core feature.
IT infrastructure. You can design, implement, administer, and support infrastructure technologies, solutions, and services. These can include computing, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, commercial-off-the-shelf software (COTS), and open-source packages and solutions. They can also include virtual and cloud computing such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).
Modern standards approach. You can competently apply a modern standards approach and guide others to do so.
Problem management. You can initiate and monitor actions to investigate patterns and trends to resolve problems. You can effectively consult specialists where required. You can determine the appropriate remedy and assist with its implementation. You can determine preventative measures.
Service focus. You can take inputs and establish coherent frameworks that work.
Service support. You can demonstrate a breadth of understanding of service support.
Systems design. You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You can select appropriate design standards, methods, and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
Systems integration. You can define the integration build. You can co-ordinate build activities across systems. You can understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities.
Technical understanding. You can show a thorough understanding of the technical concepts required for the role and can explain how these fit into the wider technical landscape.
User focus. You can collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally and explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so and offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
Troubleshooting and problem resolution. You can break a problem down into its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes. You can troubleshoot and identify problems across different technology capabilities.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for delivering the infrastructure and tooling to support a continuous delivery approach within Companies House.
You will be user and service focused ensuring that value is delivered through improvement and automation of platform services.
Working in a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers, a senior infrastructure engineer builds, administers, supports, and maintains solutions as directed and according to departmental policy. Most of the time will be spent working with the delivery teams on carrying out the infrastructure work on development projects. This will include answering any queries regarding environment, configuration, and CI/CD processes.
At this role level, you will:
Ensure services are integrated, delivered, and operated as required.
Work with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations.
Design and develop infrastructure as code, source code repositories and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines to execute change on Cloud environments.
Coordinate opportunities for integration between technologies to meet our organisational milestones using Cloud-based tooling to create reports and management information.
Coach and support colleagues in non-functional requirements, ensuring availability, security, capacity, and performance for the platform and/or service.
Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery.
Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.
Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems.
Person specification
Experience and key skills required:
Awareness of the following skills is desirable - Ansible, Programming Languages (Java and NodeJS), Python.
Working knowledge of the following is desired - Docker, Microservice and Serverless Architecture, Unix/Linux.
A Practitioner level of skill demonstrates you use these skills daily and have a vast experience and examples of these - CI/CD tooling (such as Concourse, Jenkins etc).
Expert level of skill is required for this role - AWS Cloud technology, Terraform, GitHub.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Working Together
Communicating and Influencing
Managing a Quality Service
Delivering at Pace
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £33,134, Companies House contributes £8,946 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Join us at Companies House and experience the difference of working within a culture that values you, not only as an employee, but as an integral part of our Companies House team.
We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we're committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.
Head to Our benefits - Working for us - Recruitment (companieshouse.gov.uk) to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
In your application form we'd like you to:
Tell us about your employment history, including any key responsibilities and achievements.
Write a personal statement of 750 words and address any working experience that correspond to the technical skills outlined in the person specification with a particular focus on the expert and practitioner desirables. These will also be explored at interview.
. click apply for full job details