Senior Dev Ops Engineer - SC

Job Title: Senior Dev Ops Engineer - SC
Location: Hybrid - Leeds, Manchester, Blackpool, Newcastle, Sheffield or Birmingham (3 days/week on site)
Daily Rate: £650/day (Umbrella - Maximum)
Duration: 12 Months
IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Security Clearance: SC

Essential:

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Engineering
• Terraform
• Gitlab pipelines
• Desirable:
• Networking skills
• Cloud computing qualification
• Public sector
• Cloud deployment - AWS azure, google cloud

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will own the overall DevOps process along with setting the strategies for products and the wider community.

You will contribute to the Engineering and Architecture Leads that will help ensure the systems are fit for purpose. With a focus on stability, availability and quality you will be accountable/responsible for the code and services your teams produce and administer.

You will provide support and technical leadership to a small team of DevOps Engineers along with providing oversight to the products and services they develop.

• Responsible for contributing to providing advice and guidance to others in the organisation.
• Responsible for large blocks of work, employees in varied disciplines and with a wide span of leadership, breaking down user stories into tasks.
• Design and manage the tactics for building reusable libraries, templates and services and own the development of medium-long term strategies for product lines within your Functional and Professional Communities
• Lead a DevOps Engineering team providing support, technical leadership and guidance, creating a DevOps culture and implementing automation best practices. This will include coaching, mentoring and supporting your team, taking responsibility for their decision making
• and their professional development.
• Communicate on a regular basis with a wide range of organisations and contacts internally and or externally, contributing to set strategic direction for DevOps teams and wider Engineering community
• Lead the sharing of knowledge, documentation and good practice with the wider Engineering community
• Work closely with senior officers, providing advice and suggesting courses of action,
• provide coaching, mentoring and support to Software and DevOps Engineer colleagues and peers
• Interdepartmental discussions and meetings with a wide variety of external bodies and organisations on a local, regional, national or international basis, leading community discussions about DevOps best practice within Engineering.

Technical Skills:

• 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. (Level 3)
• Defines and designs the integration build. Able to co-ordinate build activities and understands how to undertake and support integration testing activities. (Level 3)
• Sees the bigger picture by taking groups of services, investigating how to get the best of underlying services. (Level 3)
• Uses a modern standards approach competently and guides others in so doing. (Level 3)
• Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk. Liaises with business and IT partners on release scheduling and communication of progress. Conducts post release reviews. Ensures release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment tools, techniques and processes (including automation). (Level 6)
• Has a deep understanding of the technical concepts required in their role and understands how these fit into the wider technical landscape. Understands the limitations of digital technology.

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Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, CLIENT encourages applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, CLIENT welcomes applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

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