Senior DevOps Engineer
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Update day: 30-04-2024
Category: Legal / Contracts Part-time
Industry: Government Public Administration
Job type: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
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Summary
You could be designing and building solutions to help people prove their identity or apply for visas or working on the critical IT systems that support policing and counter terrorism and help protect UK borders. Our success in this role depends on our ability to exploit the latest technologies to create leading-edge, world class solutions whilst ensuring they are secure and resilient.
Your role may involve building and enhancing platforms on AWS or collaborating with developers to automate project builds. You’ll be working hand in hand with developers on projects such a GRO transformation, Police National Applications (National Law Enforcement Data Services) and Passports.
We think that these are some of the most interesting and exciting projects in government right now, and we look forward to finding the right person to help us deliver them.
It’s important that we build a diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve and provide an inclusive environment for all. We value everyone’s skills and provide a creative and supportive workplace to help you do your best work and develop your career.
Job description
Working in a product-centric development team, you’ll be bringing you deep DevOps skills and SRE awareness to build services and bring them into full production operation. You’ll work closely across the team to engineer for reliability, maintainability, performance and security and play a key role in diagnosing service issues and devising and implementing permanent enhancements to infrastructure and tooling. Working with the wider DevOps and SRE community, you’ll enhance and improve patterns, frameworks and tooling that keeps services reliable and operating at scale
We have a number of DevOps toolchains. Primarily we run Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform. We want you to administrate and support these toolchains and feed into the technical direction that these platforms should take. You’ll be proficient in the field of DevOps and be you’ll care about automation, security, fixing complex issues and consider a problem ticket a chance to deliver changes.
To sweeten the offer, we’re one of the largest consumers of cloud services in the UK, and we make use of many vendors and technologies. We understand that continuous learning is extremely important to you as an engineer. To support you we will give you the materials and time to grow yourself. Additionally, you’ll have the support of a rapidly growing engineering community!
We work at scale, and we have the tech stack to support this, delivering services to millions of people across the United Kingdom. If you want to be part of this, whether already working at this level or looking to make your next career move, it’s time to share your CV and make a difference.
Want more detail?
Take a look at our recent blog post on DevOps within the Home Office. Click here to visit the site.
Responsibilities
- Implementing optimisations and automations that reduce technical debt; reduce operational costs and risks; automate toil; and improve the quality and resilience of our service infrastructure
- Spotting instances where teams are not using best practice; advising around delivery risk, e.g. code quality analysis tools support in
- Developing delivery pipelines using GitLab and Jenkins for deployments into our path-to-live environments across multiple services
- Undertaking skilled platform build/support activities, such as developing hardened base containers, deploying platform services through a CI pipeline making use of infrastructure as code
- Supporting engineers in service topology discovery; helping to define QA and deployment pipelines
- Driving adoption of new tools so teams can improve their integration approaches
Like most businesses we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasion there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid
Essential Criteria
You’ll be an advocate for automation, monitoring and alerting, committed to reducing the time it takes to get changes deployed into production whilst ensuring service quality and resilience. You’ll also have strong skills or experience:
- In development of code or scripts to provide automation and consistent deployment patterns in at least one major programming/scripting language
- With AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform/Cloudformation, Vault and modern monitoring tooling systems
- Engineering and maintaining DevOps toolchains to support secure and highly resilient services
- Developing designs, code and testing of infrastructure as code and continuous improvement pipelines
- Building and installing of new platform tooling solutions such as monitoring, secret management and service discovery solutions to industry best practices
- Working in an agile software development environment, including iterative design, planning and improvement
Technical skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Application Support (ASUP) - Level 5
- Data Management (DATM) - Level 5
- Programming Software Development (PROG) - Level 4
- Software Design (SWDN) - Level 5
- Systems Integration and Build (SINT) - Level 5
- Testing (TEST) - Level 4
Benefits
- Civil Service pension with employer contribution rates of between 26.6% and 30.3%, depending upon salary
- 25 days annual leave on appointment, plus 8 days public holidays and 1 day for the Queen’s Birthday, rising further with service
- Flexible working options to enable you to achieve the work life balance that right for you including part-time, flexi time and job sharing
- One of the higher starting salaries across the Civil Service
- Training and development opportunities tailored to your role
- In-year bonus scheme
- Culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
You will also have access to benefits such as
- Season ticket loans and rental deposit loans
- Cycle to work and payroll giving
- Employee discounts - including a huge number of retailers (via the Edenred platform), Microsoft Home Use programme and gym membership
- Variety of staff recognition schemes including thank you vouchers
- Health and wellbeing initiatives including monthly mindfulness sessions
- Staff support networks
- Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid
- Maternity and adoption support leave (paternity leave) of 2 weeks full pay
- Up to 5 days paid leave for volunteering
- Study leave and support for studying for a qualification or other accredited development relevant to your role
Things you need to know
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See our vetting charter.
Selection process details
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Please note your CV should include all relevant Experience that relates to the role description and should be aligned to the Essential Criteria as set out in the job advertisement.
Initially candidate applications will be sifted according to their Experience and Technical Skills detailed on their CV.
(Do NOT include any links or e-mail addresses to online profiles, resumés, or prior work, either personal or business. Active links or e-mail addresses may result in your application being rejected)
Candidates who pass the sift will be provided with a technical exercise to complete, details will be provided prior to the interview. This coding test will assess your ability to effectively perform in the advertised role. You will be sent detailed instructions along with an invitation to take the test.
Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to participate in the test.
Candidates who fail to complete the test and those candidates not reaching the required standard should note that their applications will not be progressed further.
Candidates reaching the required standard will then be invited to attend a final interview. The interview will assess your Technical Skills and Experience using Technical (as listed above) and Experience-based questions.
At the Home Office we use the industry standard framework Skills Framework for Information Age (SFIA), candidates will be assessed against the relevant skills for the role.
Please see Role Description and SFIA information document attached for further information regarding the SFIA skills that will be assessed for this particular role.
Sift and interview dates
Sift will take place week commencing 25th April 2022.
Interviews will be held week commencing 09th May 2022. (subject to panel availability)
Due to the Covid-19 interviews will be held remotely via Microsoft Teams / Skype.
Further information
Please read the essential skills for this position carefully. We will only consider those who meet the listed requirement.
If you have previously made an unsuccessful application for a role with the same essential skills and are not able to demonstrate how you have developed these skills since your last application please reconsider applying as your application is unlikely to be successful.
For meaningful checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 5 years for SC clearance and 10 years for DV. A lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.
Our pay is based on capability, we offer up to an additional £11,300 Recruitment & Retention Allowance is available for exceptional candidates. This allowance is subject to annual review and could be reduced or withdrawn at any time.
Higher Security Clearance:
This post requires the successful candidate to hold security clearance at minimum SC level (normally requiring a five year UK footprint). Job offers to this post are made on the basis of merit. Security vetting will only take place after the receipt of a job offer.
Visa Sponsorship Statement
Please take note that the Home Office DDaT does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License and are unable to sponsor any individuals via Skilled Worker Sponsorship / Tier 2 (General) work visa.
A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointment may be made.
We often have similar roles available at different grades. If a candidate is suitable for a similar role or a lower grade than they have applied for, we may offer the candidate that role without the need to go through a further selection process providing the role has the same competencies and essential skills.
Every day, Home Office civil servants do brilliant work to develop and deliver policies and services that affect the lives of people across the country and beyond. To do this effectively and fairly, the Home Office is committed to representing modern Britain in all its diversity, and creating a welcoming, inclusive workplace where all our people are able to bring their whole selves to work and perform at their best.
We are flexible, skilled, professional and diverse. We work to recruit and retain disabled staff and area Disability Confident Leader. We are proud to be one of the most ethnically diverse departments in the civil service. We are a Social Mobility Foundation top 75 employer.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
For further information please see the attached notes for candidates which must be read before making an application.
Existing Civil Servants should note that some of the Home Office terms and conditions of employment have changed. It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the Terms and Conditions they will adopt should they be successful in application and should refer to the notes for candidates for further details.
Transfer Terms: Voluntary.
If you are invited to an interview you will be required to bring a range of documentation for the purposes of establishing identity and to aid any pre-employment checks.
Please see the attached list of Home Office acceptable ID documents.
Any move to the Home Office from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at here
Reasonable Adjustments
If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
- Contact Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
- Complete the “Assistance Required” section in the “Additional Requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a language service professional
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.
Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
Working for the Civil Service
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles.
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Deadline: 14-06-2024
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