Lead DevOps Engineer

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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

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that our AWS environments are proactively and effectively managed, and that data security is at the forefront of how services are designed and delivered. The key responsibilities of the role are:-

• 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.

Essential criteria (To be assessed at application stage):

• 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'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Modern development standards
• Service support Technical skills will be assessed via a test, this will be sent prior to your interview.

Valuing our people:

• Competitive salary
• Generous pension scheme
• A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
• Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
• Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
• Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays

Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our candidate pack.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

We want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact recruitment@gca.gov.uk

Working flexibly, delivering outcomes

GCA operates a smarter working model that balances flexibility with collaboration. Successful candidates are expected to spend at least 26 days per quarter (approximately 2 days per week, pro-rata) at their contracted office, another GCA site, or off-site for meetings. For the remainder of the time, you may work from home or another suitable location that meets business needs.

Job contact :

• Name : Recruitment team
• Email : recruitment@gca.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@gca.gov.uk