Lead DevOps - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - HM Revenue and Customs

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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Salary:

- £52,598 - £59,294
Job grade:

Grade 7
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
HMRC
CDIO
Enterprise Cloud Services
Type of role:
Information Technology
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
2Contents

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Bristol, NewcastleuponTyne, TelfordAbout the job

Job summary:

At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.

We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you.

Degree Level or Equivalent experience. Equivalent qualification/award agreed by HMRC's Head of Development / Head of ECS;
Experience of workload, performance and development within a team of Product Developers building capability to deliver the products as required; and
Experience in Cloud development roles.

Dependent upon your skills and experience, it is possible to be offered higher than the bottom of the salary band.

Are you an experienced Lead DevOps who has delivered public cloud services that meet user needs?

Do you have a track-record of leading successful technical teams in an agile environment?

Can you lead one of our Development teams in the creation and continuous improvement of products with significant scale and complexity?

In which case, we would like to hear from you.

We are looking for someone who will be responsible for leading and working within a scrum team analysing, designing, developing, automating and delivering Core Platform Shared Services in HMRC's Cloud Environment.

You'll be naturally; a self-starter, apt at working individually or as part of a small team, able to convey technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders and able to own product development through to delivery.

You will be hands on with an Engineering background but must also be passionate about mentoring and coaching as it is important to us that this role has people focus.

This role sits within HMRC's Chief Digital & Information Group (CDIO), specifically in the Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) team.

We are transforming and growing to enhance its HMRC Cloud Centre of Excellence offering, and we are a diverse team of 80+ individuals, creating a dynamic and inclusive working environment whose skills cover Architecture, Development, Service Design, Operation and Governance.

Job description:

Working in a productcentric development team, you'll bring your extensive DevOps skills and SRE awareness to build services and bring them into full production operation.
You'll work closely across the team to engineer for reliability, maintainability, performance and security and play a key role in diagnosing service issues and devising and implementing permanent enhancements to infrastructure and tooling

Person specification:

Develop our existing AWS Cloud Platform using a broad range of CI/CD technologies
Gitlab, Ansible, Artifactory, Jenkins, Jira.
Ensure Service, Security, Commercial and Operational design aspects are incorporated from the beginning of the delivery process.
Adopt an Agile approach to delivery where new services or service improvements are delivered collaboratively and incrementally to realise business value at the earliest opportunity.
Mentor and coach reporting team members and have a focus on continuous improvement.

Essential Criteria:

Knowledge of AWS Products and strong understanding of AWS concepts.
Familiarity with software testing approaches.
Experience of using Git & Git Workflows.
Understanding of Serverless approaches.

Desirable Criteria:

STEM related degree, or equivalent technical certifications.
Applied skills of CI/CD using Gitlab.
Experienced in using Container technologies.
Terraform or CloudFormation skills.
Experience in managing a team of engineers/developers.

Benefits:

Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Team members that are moving offices as a result of the Locations Programme will be entitled to a Moves Adjustment Payment for three years where they incur additional costs.

This is calculated based on the difference between the costs of travelling to and from the new and old office, over a weekly period.

You will get more detail on this as part of targeted locations move communications.

Find more about HMRC benefits in 'Your little extras and big benefits handbook' for further information or visit Thinking of joining the Civil Service.

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