Job description Overview of the Senior DevOps Engineer role About this Role Are you passionate about collaborative working and problem solving?
Do you enjoy using your technical skills to help teams work more effectively and get software into the hands of users more quickly?
Are you looking for a new role in an organisation that treats you as an individual and supports you on your professional and career development journey?
Then this is the role for you We have an exciting opportunity to join our DevOps Enablement team, within the Platform Engineering group, during the IPO digital transformation journey.
Working within an established team, this role provides an opportunity to turn innovative ideas into customer value using a range of technologies and delivery platforms.
Person Specification Strong understanding of DevOps principles and experience of working in a DevOps or iterative development culture.
Excellent knowledge and proven experience implementing continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) tools, including pipeline design and administration.
Experience with automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines.
Demonstrable experience in service support including troubleshooting and incident resolution.
Experience in identification and tracking of risks and issues.
Experience of knowledge sharing and mentoring junior members of the team.
Technical Skills Substantial development or scripting experience in one or more of the following: Substantial experience in administration and configuration of Azure DevOps Pipelines (preferred) or other CI/CD orchestration tools.
Substantial experience supporting the build and deployment of, or coding in one or more of the following or equivalent: Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform Experience in containerisation technologies and platforms such as Docker or Azure container services such as Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps or Azure Container Registry or equivalent.
Experience in managing and supporting distributed source code repositories (Git).
Experience of consuming cloud platform resources (Microsoft Azure preferred).
Working Style This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices.
This role is based in our Newport Office .
The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.
Benefits Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access Access to Microsofts ESI training suite Hybrid working with no core hours Substantial support for career progression 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave Person specification For a thorough understanding of the role and general day to day duties, please refer to the attached Role Profile.
Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Changing and Improving Making Effective Decisions Delivering at Pace Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: At interview, the technical skills listed under how to apply section will be assessed.
Further details will be contained within the interview invitation.
Benefits Alongside your salary of £44,482, Intellectual Property Office contributes £12,886 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
For more information about whats on offer at the Intellectual Property Office please review our IPO benefit pack attached to the bottom of this advert.
Please note that benefits may be subject to change.
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