DevOps Engineer

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented, enthusiastic Senior DevOps Engineer within our Digital Services team. We are responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting the agency?s line of business applications.

The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.

Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive, and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 9 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability network group, Employee Assistance, Representatives, FACES Network Group, LGBT+, Mind Matters, Part Time Workers, The Shed - Men?s Network Group and Women?s Network Group., Digital Services is an in-house team, which has recently moved from using a 3rd party DevOps function to bringing it in-house. We are also consolidating our technology stack and moving away from legacy services. This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape our digital services and the way we work for a sustainable, user-centric future. We would love to for you to be part of that team.

Digital services is part of Change and Technology Services (CTS) who support and improve applications and systems across the agencies IT landscape. CTS provide key services including digital services, cyber security and information governance, service architecture and governance and digital programme delivery.

DevOps look after the deployment and infrastructure of the applications and products we deliver. They keep the lights on and are first to identify and resolve any issues with the live services. They work closely with developers and QAT to ensure the products meet the demands of the users, whilst also ensuring it meets cyber-security demands.

As a senior DevOps engineer you will deliver and integrate software to form a complete DevOps toolchain. They are responsible for planning and designing large groups of stories.

At this role level you will:

• transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery
• provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
• ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available
• have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems, As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be responsible:
• for keeping the applications running in production and non-production environments
• for ensuring that applications are deployed in a timely and secure manner
• for defining standards for the successful operation of a DevOps function within the Insolvency Service
• for monitoring and resolving issues in Production environments
• for contributing to priority incident bridge calls and root cause analysis
• for providing estimates to upcoming DevOps activities that are related to the delivery roadmap
• for providing updates and comments to in-progress work
• for working with and providing support to development and operations teams
• for escalating tickets to the Scrum Master/Delivery Manager that are unable to be completed and are now blocked
• for updating and building deployment pipelines in line with the build and deployment model
• for raising changes to go through and attending CAB to represent those changes
• for contributing to the overall improvement of the application technology stack
• for ensuring that documentation conforms to application documentation standards and is up-to-date and reflective of any changes, If you do not currently hold Security Check (SC) clearance, we will support you through the vetting process following a conditional offer of employment. As SC clearance is essential for this role, appointment is dependent on successfully obtaining and maintaining it. We will provide guidance and support throughout the process. Behaviours

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

• Managing a Quality Service
• Changing and Improving

Technical skills

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

• During the interview the candidate will be given a hypothetical technical scenario that will assess their technical knowledge and approach. The candidates will be not be required to create a presentation beforehand., Note: Your CV will be scored as part of the assessment process and will be assessed against the criteria outlined in the job advert.

Personal Statement Guidance

Your personal statement should be no more than 500 words and must demonstrate how your personal skills, qualities, and experience align with the requirements of the role. Please ensure your statement references the essential criteria outlined in the person specification.

If successful at the sift stage, at interview, you will be assessed on the following:

• Experience
• Behaviours - assessed through:
• Behaviour 1 - Managing a Quality Service
• Behaviour 2 - Changing and Improving
• Technical Skills
• During the interview the candidate will be given a hypothetical technical scenario that will assess their technical knowledge and approach. The candidates will not be required to create a presentation beforehand or prepare anything ahead of the interview., Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter . People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

• have an inquisitive mind and be able to adapt to other problem in hand
• be able to keep your own efforts focused on Digital Services goals to help the delivery of our roadmap and value to the business
• have a keen eye for detail and a tenacious approach to work
• need to be able to ask difficult and unpopular questions and work with the Lead DevOps engineer to arrive at decisions that are evidence based and for the benefit of Digital Services and the wider Insolvency Service
• have a strong analytical and problem solving skills to be able to identify patterns, draw conclusions and resolve repeatable incidents
• have the ability to build and establish key relationships within Digital Services to support the delivery of business outcomes, in a secure, stable manner
• possess good interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal, To sponsor a candidate under the Skilled Worker visa, a sponsorship licence is required. The Insolvency Service does not currently hold this licence and therefore, cannot legally sponsor Skilled Worker visa applicants.

Benefits Alongside your salary of £48,429, Insolvency Service contributes £14,029 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We want you to have a good work-life balance and want to support you in all that you do, so we offer a great benefits package including:

• flexible working arrangements and flexi-time
• full time new entrants to the Civil Service and those Civil Servants on modernised terms and conditions will be entitled to 25 days leave increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years? service
• in addition to this you are entitled to 8 public/bank holidays plus an additional day of privilege leave
• competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
• 5 days paid leave for learning and development
• 5 days paid for volunteering
• a Cycle to work scheme
• staff have access to an employee assistance programme, Workplace Wellness, for confidential, independent support and advice during difficult times in either their professional or personal life