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Lead DevOps Engineer

Government Commercial Agency -
Birmingham

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Permanent | Full-time
£59,877 - £66,869 a year

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Work from home

Qualifications

Cloud infrastructure
Azure
Go
Git
.NET
Java
AWS
Docker
Presentation skills
JavaScript
PostgreSQL
Terraform
Ruby
GitHub
S3
Jenkins
Python
IaaS

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Reference number

466532

Salary

£59,877 - £66,869

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Grade 7

Band 5

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Digital

Working pattern

Full-time, Compressed hours

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Location

Birmingham, Liverpool, Newport (Gwent), Norwich

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Job summary

Insight into GCA - Webinar

Watch our Webinar on the above link and gain valuable insight into GCA and our recruitment processes.

This role is being managed by public sector resourcing, to apply please visit their site here

Ready to leave your mark on a national scale? Join us at the forefront of a vital digital transformation, where your skills wont just support a constantly evolving teamthey will deliver value for the nation. If youre looking for a role where innovation meets true public purpose, your journey starts here.

Job Summary

You'll be instrumental in shaping the future of our technical landscape, focusing on vital infrastructure evolution, optimising environments, and refining CI/CD processes. Leading a dedicated infrastructure team, youll be building the foundations on which our core systems operate, offering crucial technical guidance to colleagues and internal customers, and actively developing individuals to foster their growth.

Our tech stack includes:

Cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure
Infrastructure as code: Terraform
Containerisation: Docker, AWS ECS and EKS
CI/CD deployments: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Application code: Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript, .NET

Job description

Responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that our AWS environments are proactively and effectively managed, and that data security is at the forefront of how services are designed and delivered. The key responsibilities of the role are:-

Help build and run user-centred, product-led secure web services to serve a variety of customer, supplier and internal needs
Configure, maintain and monitor all IaaS resources within AWS environments.
Collaborate with team members, delivery partners and service providers on delivery milestones to ensure smooth implementation of new and enhanced services.
Authoring and maintaining infrastructure as code written using Terraform and validating and approving code written by other teams.
Assist in the reviews of BCP / DR and Backup Plans and suggest changes or make amendments where necessitated by changes to the IT Infrastructure
Develop tool chains as part of a CI/CD DevOps process and assist other colleagues in their use and support.
Keep abreast of Cloud technologies in the IaaS, PaaS and SaaS arenas.

Person specification

Essential criteria (To be assessed at application stage):

Experience managing infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform and version control technologies such as Git
Experience designing, building, securing and managing production services running in AWS (including ECS, EC2, VPC, Postgres, ELB, S3)
Experience with a programming language such as Go, Python, Ruby or Javascript
Line manager experience / capability leading mixed skillset teams
Experience of working with container orchestration, continuous delivery methods and deployment processes

Behaviours

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

Leadership
Working Together
Managing a Quality Service
Making Effective Decisions
Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

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

Modern development standards
Service support Technical skills will be assessed via a test, this will be sent prior to your interview.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £59,877, Government Commercial Agency contributes £17,346 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

Valuing our people:

Competitive salary
Generous pension scheme
A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays

Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our candidate pack.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

We want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact [email protected]

Working flexibly, delivering outcomes

GCA operates a smarter working model that balances flexibility with collaboration. Successful candidates are expected to spend at least 26 days per quarter (approximately 2 days per week, pro-rata) at their contracted office, another GCA site, or off-site for meetings. For the remainder of the time, you may work from home or another suitable location that meets business needs.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours and Technical skills.

Selection Process

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact [email protected].

Please note that as part of this recruitment process, if you are unsuccessful at the interview stage but are close to the benchmark score you may be considered for and offered a role at a lower pay band within the same job family.

#GCAIND

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

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Recruitment team
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

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Complaints procedure
Our recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners Recruitment Principles details of which can be found at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact [email protected] in the first instance.
If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at [email protected]

https://www.gca.gov.uk/careers-with-gca

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