Senior DevOps Engineer - HSE - SEO

We have an opportunity to recruit a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the DevOps Team in the ITS Division. The DevOps Team comprises of internal and outsourced capabilities. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will thrive and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or many projects. You will be supporting existing cloud-based services, assisting in the design, and delivery of new cloud-based services as we expand HSE’s digital services in Azure, adhering to GDS principles and using Agile principles.

Key Responsibilities:

• As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will help to develop the capability of HSEs newly formed multi-skilled DevOps Team to manage the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate.
• You will help establish and then operate DevOps processes, establishing a regime and culture of continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD).
• You will work closely with the development and test communities as we strive to automate our processes and implement new tooling.
• You will support the design, implementation and management of solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable and maintainable within our cloud environment.
• You will deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE. 

If you are successful, you will be required to travel to other offices depending on project work needs and also occasionally to Redgrave Court for workshops and Team meetings.

You are required to work a 37 hour week based on a 5 day working week and 7.4 hours day. The working week is between 07:00 and 19:00 Monday to Friday. There is the possibility of Saturday working between 07:00 and 19:00. As far as possible your Line Manager will agree your working pattern(s) with you including any Saturday working. There may be times when you are required to work additional hours and/or a late shift to accommodate operational needs or unplanned events. Where it is necessary for operational reasons to vary your ‘normal’ working pattern(s), you will be notified by your manager in advance.

You may be required to be on an on-call rota.

For details of HSE locations please see here HSE Offices

Person specification

Essential Skills & Criteria:

• Experience of implementing and administering cloud-based solutions in Microsoft Azure, utilising IaaS or PaaS based services.
• Experience of building and optimising CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Experience using scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Bash).
• Experience of creating and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Bicep, ARM templates) in a source control management system.
• Good communication skills; with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and concisely.
• Experience of managing the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate.
• Experience of setting up monitoring and alerting of live cloud services.

Behaviours

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

• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace