DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

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 with speed and stability? 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 for a DevOps Engineer, 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.

Key Tech: Azure DevOps Pipelines (including for Microsoft Dynamics 365 pipelines), scripting, Azure, Terraform, Microsoft Power Automate Cloud flows (training provided where there are specific skill gaps)

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, * Support all aspects of the software development lifecycle, applying DevOps principles and to lead on developing, implementing, enhancing and managing DevOps practices following agreed processes and best practices.

• Working on the design, release and implementation of automated, repeatable, efficient delivery pipelines and holds responsibility for the management, delivery and improvements of the deployments onto Production.
• Act as the DevOps engineer for Releases and troubleshooting of issues, with support from other engineers.
• Providing administration, configuration and troubleshooting support for CI & CD pipelines and hosted container applications.
• Working on delivery, integration, administration and configuration of DevOps tools. This includes tools for source control, build, CI & CD, code reviews, security scans, configuration automation, test automation, artefact management, monitoring and alerting.
• Conducting reviews and quality checks for newly delivered code and be an advocate for security and performance standards in the organisation.
• Implementing and configuring DevOps specific monitoring, alerting, auditing and notification strategies.
• Contributing to technical decisions and directions in a collaborative team environment, including solution architecture, estimations, product planning and user stories.
• Attending Team and Agile Scrum ceremonies.
• Promoting and encouraging the use of test automation and infrastructure-as-code within delivery teams., This post is being advertised to Internal, across Government and external candidates at the same time.

Incomplete and/or late submissions will not be accepted or considered. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

We do not routinely reimburse travel expenses for candidates, however if participating in the selection process would cause you undue financial hardship or if it restricts your ability to participate, please contact the recruitment team for more information.

In line with Government guidance, successfully appointed candidates will need to provide documents for our Right to Work checks. Information on this will be sent within the invite to interview text.

If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, then please let the recruitment team know via;recruitment@ipo.gov.uk

Please be aware that only one application per candidate is permitted for each recruitment campaign. Multiple applications, including those made using different accounts, may result in your application being withdrawn or rejected at any stage of the process.

For more information on the IPO’s terms and conditions, please review the attached IPO Modernised Terms and Conditions document attached at the bottom of this advert. 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., * 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

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * Understanding of DevOps principles and experience of working in a DevOps or iterative development culture.

• Demonstrable experience of using continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) tools, including pipeline implementation.
• Awareness of automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills with experience in service support.
• Demonstrable ability to follow and continuously improve processes.

Technical Essential

• Substantial development or scripting experience in one or more of the following:
• Python
• Bash
• PowerShell
• 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:
• Python
• .Net Core / C#
• NextJs / Node frontend
• 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)., * Developing Self and Others
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

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

• At interview a presentation will be used to assess this, Further details will be provided in your invite to interview., This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Additional details on security and vetting

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check and if successful you must also hold, or be willing to obtain, a higher Security Clearance.

For meaningful checks to be carried out individuals will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, depending on the level of clearance, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. For this role the successful individual will need to have consistently lived in the UK for a minimum 5 years in order to meet the relevant security clearance.

£36,736 - £46,743 Maximum salary amount includes Recruitment Retention Allowance and Technical Allowances of up to £8,420.Final salary package will be dependent on skills and experience. A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% GBP, Alongside your salary of £36,736, Intellectual Property Office contributes £10,642 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access
• Access to Microsoft’s 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