DevOps Engineer - Build public services at scale at UK Home Office (Croydon, UK)

UK Home Office

Posted: over 2 years ago

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Position type
full time
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Stack overflow
Category
programming
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No
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About

It’s an exciting time in Home Office, we have a number of great new initiatives coming together which are laying the basis for our future operating model –reshaping and truly redefining how we manage our delivery and services to citizens.


What you'll be doing


You’ll be using a number of our cloud platforms (AWS focus, using native tools as well as our ACP and EBSA platforms) to enable rapid delivery, whilst working to our standards (must be secure, robust, accessible).


You’ll be responsible for maintaining and supporting our platforms. Your role is proactive, checking relevant metrics and performing platform updates when necessary. This will ensure it is accessible to users and has capacity for production and deployment. Upon request, you’ll also advise developers on how to use the platform effectively, reviewing and advising on their CI/CD pipelines, this may also involve working to deliver components of new platforms.


Whilst this isn’t a leadership role you’ll have the opportunity to support the build of the team around you, possibly mentoring others or being mentored yourself and getting hands on in recruitment activities.


Your main day to day will involve:



  • writing scripts to deliver/work with our platforms, such as developing docker/terraform/ansible files for a variety of systems/frameworks

  • providing technical support functions, solving more challenging platform use and configuration issues

  • providing feedback to project teams on platform use; supporting routine monitoring activities

  • advising developers on how they should use existing systems and configure CI/CD pipelines

  • working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes

  • working with developers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended


About you


You’ll have a demonstrable passion for automation and collaboration, with skills or strong experience in:



  • containerisation (any OCI compliant runtime)

  • configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) or container orchestration

  • linux scripting (Bash, Python or Go)

  • adapting CI/CD pipelines to the team’s requirements

  • pairing with developers for knowledge transfer

  • working in an agile way following DevOps principles


What we're offering


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!


You can also take a look at our recent blog post on DevOps within the Home Office -https://hodigital.blog.gov.uk/2020/09/15/what-are-we-doing-in-devops-at-the-home-office

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