Job Description

Role: DevOps Engineer

Contract Length: 12Months

Location: Manchester, Blackpool, Sheffield, Newcastle, Birmingham or Leeds (2 days/week in office)

IR35: Inside

Salary: £650/day max

Security Clearance: SC

Interview Process: Telephone / MS TEAMS

Minimum Requirement:

• Gitlab CI experience
• AWS
• Azure

Dev Ops Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for the design and implementation of applications' build, release, deployment and configuration activities. Other responsibilities include working within multi-functional teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implementing/updating solutions, building and executing test plans, provision environments, application performance reviews, assist migration of legacy systems, and triaging and fixing operational issues.

You will contribute to DevOps culture promotion and aide/support the transition to DevOps as a best practice.

• Leads, manages and develops their team of people, setting the direction for the team, to deliver high performance.
• Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery, assure and implement deployment strategies and apply different techniques to methods in analysing and resolving problems, working up new practices and procedures or modify existing processes to improve performance.
• Resolve issues to ensure citizen-facing services are repeatable, scalable, resilient and highly available
• Communicate with a range of people, inside the Department, in other Government Organisations, in external organisations and with the general public to produce comprehensive technical documentation for wider consumption.
• Manage and co-ordinate work across a number of section and support product teams to write code that is simple and flexible to build, configure and deploy
• Contribute to community discussions about DevOps best practice within Engineering, responsible for providing recommendations based on in depth research and determination of the options. Make and review decisions to progressively improve decision-making
• Collaborate across teams and liaise with Lead/Senior DevOps Engineers and Technical Architects to investigate technical solutions
• Provide coaching and mentoring to Software and DevOps Engineer peers
• Implement a DevOps culture and automation best practices

Skills/Knowledge Required:

• Collaborates with others when necessary to review specifications and uses these agreed standards and tools to design, code, test, correct and document programmes or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• Able to build and test simple interfaces or can work on more complex integration as part of a wider team.
• Takes inputs and establishes coherent frameworks that work.
• Understands key principles of modern standards approach and how they apply to the work they are undertaking and will apply under guidance.
• Assesses and analyses release components. Provides input to scheduling. Carries out the builds and tests in coordination with testers and component specialists maintaining and administering the tools and methods – manual or automatic - and ensuring, where possible, information exchange with configuration management. Ensures release processes and procedures are maintained.
• Understands core technical concepts related to their role and can apply them.

Security Clearance: SC

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant   

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on 0121 794 8181.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on 0121 794 8181