Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud Automation) Companies House Salary: £41,571 - £56,784 Base salary is £41,571 - £45,784 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.
Exceptional employment benefits, (including 28.97% Employer pension contribution, flexible working (no core hours), 30 days leave etc.)
Job summary Key skills: AWS, IaC, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, CI/CD tooling, Terraform, Github, Containerisation, Ansible, Packer.
Integration tooling : Artifactory, ElasticSearch, Grafana, Prometheus, Hashicorp Vault, Kafka, Matomo, Prometheus, SonarQube.
Location: Remote, (anywhere in the UK with need to travel to Head Office in Cardiff 4 times per year) Are you seeking a step into a Lead role where technical innovation is genuinely embraced, team culture is enjoyable, personal development is achievable, and the work-life balance is perfectly balanced?
It's a rare combination, but it's all here if you are a Platform / Cloud Automation specialist with great leadership and technical skills.
Job description Lead by example in the Platform Team delivering Infrastructure and systems to the highest standards whilst implementing the DevOps culture and principles.
Build and maintain Platform Infrastructure to enable rapid and innovative deployment.
Lead on various workstreams and act as SME to other Infrastructure Engineers in the associated teams.
Role includes: 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.
Lead and support colleagues in non-functional requirements, ensuring availability, security, capacity, and performance for the platform and/or service.
Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.
Person specification Experience and key skills required: Expert level of skill is required for this role - AWS Cloud technology, CI/CD tooling, GitHub, Terraform and Containerisation.
A Practitioner level of skill demonstrates you use these skills daily and have a vast experience and examples of these - Ansible, Unix/Linux and Python.
Working knowledge of the following is desired - Packer, Microservice and Serverless Architecture.
As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer , the candidate must perform at the level defined within the DDaT Capability Framework Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Communicating and Influencing Delivering at Pace Leadership Making Effective Decisions Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Terraform AWS Cloud technology Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery Containerisation Benefits Alongside your salary of £41,571, Companies House contributes £12,043 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
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Find out more about what a great place Companies House is to work 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, Experience and Technical skills.
** Essential Employment Requirements** Only candidates with Full Right to Work in the UK without sponsorship will be considered.
Additionally, eligibility for SC level Security Clearance is required.
You will not be considered for this role if you cannot evidence UK residence over the last 5 years.
Please ensure your CV details your employment history, including key responsibilities and achievements, paying particular attention to the experience and key skills listed in the person specification.
Please provide context to evidence your level of expertise and working knowledge of each technology and programme.
It's important to demonstrate your level of use and skill - we need this to be able to effectively sift your application.
We plan to sift W/C 16 December, technical assessment W/C 16 December and final interviews W/C 6 January 2025.
This might need to change - we will keep you informed as you move through the process.
The sift will be assessing experience and key skills detailed in the person specification, in addition to Technical Skills: Terraform and AWS Cloud Technology.
The technical assessment will be assessing Success Profiles: Technical Skills.
The interview will be assessing Success Profiles: Technical Skills and Behaviours detailed in the advert and Strengths.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.