Infrastructure Engineer

The position will be focussed on building and maintaining Infrastructure to enable the organisation to deliver rapidly and reliably deploy and innovate for our customers. A Senior Infrastructure Engineer will work with our development teams, ensuring work is delivered to the standards set out in our best practice guides. The role requires the candidate to lead on various streams of work and provide technical support to Infrastructure engineers across the organisation., * You will be responsible for delivering the infrastructure and tooling to support a continuous delivery approach within Companies House.

• You will be user and service focused ensuring that value is delivered through improvement and automation of platform services.
• Working in a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers, a Senior Infrastructure Engineer builds, administers, supports, and maintains solutions as directed and according to departmental policy.
• Most of the time will be spent working with the delivery teams on carrying out the infrastructure work on development projects. This will include answering any queries regarding environment, configuration, and CI/CD processes.

At this role level, you will:

• 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.
• Lead and support colleagues in non-functional requirements, ensuring availability, security, capacity, and performance for the platform and/or service.
• Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery.
• Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable, and universally available.
• Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems.
• Ensuring best practice guides are maintained and adhered to., * The team for this role is based in our Cardiff office, and a hybrid employment contract will be provided as the standard offering. However, remote contracts may be considered as an exception whereby commuting to the office location of your team is not reasonably practicable.
• The nature of this post may occasionally require you to do overtime during the week and at weekends.

• Terraform
• CI/CD tooling (e.g., Concourse)
• Cloud Technology Principles (preferably AWS)
• Git (source control and versioning)

Strong practical experience in:

• Containerisation (Docker)
• Unix/Linux

Working knowledge of:

• Ansible
• Packer, This is an exciting opportunity in our Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) team. We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps/Platform) with great leadership and technical skills and a drive to improve. This role is a unique opportunity as you will be part of a team delivering Platform Infrastructure and systems to the highest standards and implementing the DevOps culture and principles across the business.

Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%. Please note: * Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign, London, England, United Kingdom > 1000 employees Corporate / Direct Employer Government Digital and Data is a community of experts leading digital transformation in government, creating more efficient services that have a meaningful impact on people's lives. Government Digital and Data professionals benefit from cross-government events and learning. From webinars from the world's leading innovators to digital upskilling sessions.They enhance our professionals' skills and capabilities, which ultimately enables them to be a part of the world-leading advancements in digital transformation and government innovation.