Senior Development Operations Engineer -Planning Inspectorate
Government Digital & Data -
Senior Development Operations Engineer
Planning Inspectorate
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 19th May 2024
Salary
£44,220 - £47,441
DDaT Allowance of up to £10,000
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade
Senior Executive Officer
Business area
PINS - Corporate Services
Type of role
Architecture and Data
Digital
Information Technology
Knowledge and Information Management
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time, Compressed hours
Number of jobs available
1
Contents
Location
Bristol, South West England, BS1 6PN
About the job
Job summary
The Planning Inspectorate is recruiting for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our strong Digital and Data Services team as we seek to meet growing demands from our colleagues, government, and our customers.
This role is a Senior DevOps Engineer. You will be a member of a multidisciplinary team, managing the development and operation of applications, providing technical expertise, and identifying opportunities for improvement across projects. This includes our casework management systems, public facing websites, and internal tools, as we continue to create a more modern Inspectorate.
You’ll be working as part of a focussed team supporting our services in their delivery and looking at future opportunities to improve. Outside of the team, you’ll be a part of the Developer Community of Practice where you’ll have peer support and opportunities to share both knowledge and problems.
The Planning Inspectorate has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England. The work we do has a significant impact on people’s lives, the communities where they live and the economy.
We want our colleagues to be able to work more flexibly and more collaboratively, exploring new and innovative ways to improve the way we provide services.
For further information on the Planning Inspectorate, please see the information pack attached. You can also view our careers page at Civil Service Careers
Job description
You will be responsible for working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, focussed on delivering high quality code and infrastructure in line with project goals and delivery cycles. As well as this you will be working with a team of Developers, DevOps engineers and Testers where team members are supported and developed to enable them to fulfil their potential and contribute fully to the success of the organisation.
As a DevOps Engineer, you will provide technical recommendations and assurance within the team to identify the best technology and solutions to support integration and deployment of applications.
You will also keep up to date with the latest technologies and trends, whilst delivering working software early and often, learning new languages and frameworks and picking the right solutions.
Our Tech Stack
We rely heavily on:
- Azure for our infrastructure
- Azure DevOps for our CI/CD pipelines
- Terraform for our Infrastructure as Code
- GitHub to host and manage our code
- Docker and Web Apps for Containers
- NodeJS for our back-end code
- HTML/CSS/JavaScript for our web interfaces
- UK Design System for our web interfaces
- Azure SQL for data storage
We’re happy to help you learn our tech stack once you are part of our team.
Check out GitHub for a closer look at the technology we use.
A typical week in this role will consist of a blend of responsibilities, including:
- Prioritisation of work in line with deliverables and project goals.
- Writing Infrastructure as Code.
- Reviewing other DevOps work via GitHub Pull Requests.
- Offering technical expertise on infrastructure and technology choices.
- Providing guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Identifying and fixing faults.
- Providing technical assurance.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
- Experience applying a modern standards approach (using the latest technologies and best practices to improve the quality of the software development process).
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, including experience of supporting services.
- Experience with open-source technologies including Terraform and Git.
- A working knowledge of DevOps principles and processes.
- Experience identifying process optimisation opportunities (with guidance) and contributing to the implementation of the solutions.
- Understanding of information security and be able to design solutions and services with security controls embedded.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of JIRA or other management tooling
- Experience with Azure
- Experience with Azure DevOps
- Knowledge of the Government’s Digital strategies and codes of practice
- Awareness and understanding of industry standard security issues and processes. An understanding of ISO27001 would be an advantage.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Delivering at Pace
- Changing and Improving
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Provisioning Infrastructure
- Build and Release Pipelines
