Senior DevOps

Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you’re seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it’s really like to work at HMRC., Join us and become part of a team responsible for helping HMRC provide essential IT services to the nation. Our work involves developing, delivering, and supporting cutting-edge IT solutions for areas managing Customs, Excise and International Trade decisions for HMRC., You will be a key member of the delivery team, joining our journey moving from Legacy technology to Cloud based solutions., * Lead a small team of technical colleagues and prioritise own workload.

• Develop, share and maintain technical knowledge.
• Work with colleagues to deliver solutions within the required timescales.
• Provide support for live systems, build and maintain the development environments and resolve incidents and problems.
• Provide impact analysis/estimates for enhancements and changes and undertake peer reviews.
• Build, test, document and implement solutions in accordance with the Delivery Framework and to team quality standards.
• Develop and test coding changes in accordance with program specifications and test strategies.

We are looking for enthusiastic, technically minded individuals with a strong problem-solving mentality, able to work well leading a team.

Essential Criteria

You will already have knowledge, experience and understanding of:

• Version control.
• A wide range of Operating Systems (predominantly RedHat Enterprise Linux).

You will have a number of the following technologies:

• Common DevOps tools e.g. Gitlab, Artifactory, HC Vault.
• One of these languages: Unix/Linux shell scripting, Perl, Python.
• Configuration/infrastructure management tools e.g. Ansible, Terraform.
• Container based infrastructure.
• Cloud Platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure)., Exceptionally, candidates who are not successful at this grade may be considered for appointment to similar roles at a lower grade where the eligibility criteria are met. If this applies, we will contact you directly.

If you’ve got a good understanding of the development lifecycle and software testing along with a detailed knowledge of information systems, we are looking for people like you to join the team., We are looking for individuals who are self-motivated and possess excellent interpersonal skills with a good sense of personal responsibility and accountability for delivering high quality work. On-call for the important HMRC services the area support, with the occasional need to have scheduled work out of hours., Ideally you will also have experience of:

• Monitoring and Logging Software.
• Leading and developing People.
• Be able to communicate complex changes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Alongside your salary of £45,544, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £13,194 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

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