Cloud Infrastructure Test Engineer - Glasgow, United Kingdom - The Scottish Government

Description

Overview

Cloud Infrastructure Test Engineer | Hybrid Working with Glasgow or Dundee Base Location | £ £ £5,000 DDaT Pay Supplement after 3 month qualifying period | Full or Part Time Hours | Flexi- time | 25 Days annual leave (increasing to 30 after 4 years' service) plus 11.5 Public and Privilege| Contributory Pension Scheme (employee contributions 5.45% employer contributions 28.97%)|

Are you an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Test Engineer looking for a new challenge? Join our team and take on a multi-faceted and technical role where you will be responsible for assuring the quality and minimising the potential risk of technology products delivered by development teams or 3rd party vendors.

You will have the opportunity to work in agile squads, DevOps or release teams and provide a level of oversight to junior team members. If you are passionate about delivering exceptional results and have strong experience in software testing, we encourage you to apply and become part of our growing team.

The Cloud Infrastructure Test Engineer role will sit within Social Security Scotland's Chief Digital Office (CDO), which has a remit to provide infrastructure and systems to support both the wider social security programme and Social Security Scotland, including:

• Engineering & Cloud Services

• Architecture

• Technologies and Platforms

• Digital Risk and Cyber Protection

• Operational Delivery and Capability

• Service Management & Service Development

We aim to develop within Social Security Scotland, a positive and inclusive culture, which supports our people to flourish, by embedding a working environment where we all treat each other with dignity and respect and recognise each other's contributions.

What Do We Offer You?

We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.We provide an employment package that attracts, develops, and retains only the best talent.
• B3 - Salary between £ £54419 plus a £5000 annual Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 month qualifying period. This supplement is backdated and paid with your monthly salary.

• Flexible working arrangements with potential of up to 4 days off per month.

• You will have an annual leave allowance of 5 weeks, rising to 6 weeks after 4 years. In addition, the Scottish Government observes 111⁄2 days public and privilege holidays, dates of which are set annually.

• Workplace adjustments for everyone that needs them to ensure your comfort and safety in your new role.

• Learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional growth.

• Career progression – join a rapidly growing and developing organisation with excellent opportunities for career advancement.

• Contributory Pension Scheme (employee contributions 5.45% employer contributions 28.97%).

• Health and wellbeing support including 24 hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme, plus counselling support available for all.

• Discounts on gym memberships and retail outlets.

DDaT Pay Supplement

This post attracts a £5,000 DDaT pay supplement after a 3 months DDaT competency qualifying period. The payment will be backdated to your start date in the role. Pay supplements are temporary payments designed to address recruitment and retention issues caused by market pressures and are subject to regular review. This post is part of the Scottish Government DDaT profession. As a member of the profession, you will join the professional development scheme, currently BCS RoleModel plus. Hybrid Working

We embrace a hybrid working style where all colleagues will spend time in either our Glasgow or Dundee offices. There is an expectation of a minimum of 2 days per week in your assigned location. Base office location can be in either Dundee or Glasgow. About Us

Social Security Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government and has the largest and most complex IT and digital change programme since devolution. With a lifetime budget of over £300m, we are delivering a social security system that will support the people of Scotland for decades to come.Our benefits help people from all walks of life in Scotland. We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the clients we serve.

Responsibilities

The Cloud Infrastructure Test Engineer role will focus on the testing of Social Security Scotland's AWS hosted infrastructure. Within the Chief Digital Office's DevOps function, the Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will be led by the Infrastructure Test Manager and will be part of a team of Infrastructure Test Engineers. Their main tasks will include:

• Delivering infrastructure testing solutions, both manual and automated, for a wide range of project deliverables within the Chief Digital Office.

• Ownership of testing deliverables for individual or multiple work streams or scrum teams.

• Lead and own the manual and automated testing practices where/when required to support the Infrastructure Test Manager and other Test Engineers in the team.

• Developing automated test scripts to supplement the existing test framework, following a risk-based infrastructure testing approach which is aligned to the Infrastructure Test Strategy.

• Adopting a standardised approach to test preparation and execution of all infrastructure testing across the programme.

• Developing a continuous integration test pipeline for regression test purposes.

• Supporting the Non-Functional Testing function within the Test Practice, including continuous process improvement.

The Cloud Infrastructure Test Engineer will have strong & expert manual and automated test design & development skills. Ideally, they will have previous experience of testing the 'Development of a Cloud Infrastructure solution as it was being built' rather than testing the applications and services hosted on an infrastructure that is already built. You will have infrastructure testing experience in a Cloud hosting solution with AWS, including knowledge and hands-on experience of the following:

• Apply test driven development practices for infrastructure to help the team to prevent defects.

• Elaborating test requirements for a given infrastructure to test AWS services in a shared component architecture.

• Expertise in designing, developing and execution of manual and automated infrastructure tests.

• Documenting the processes, procedures, and ways of working to maintain testing artefacts.

• Good understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and its implementation using Terraform, Packer, Docker, Jenkins, GitLab, Manifests & Recipes.

• Defining, designing, and implementing test techniques to certify VPC, ALB/NLB, Security Groups, Proxies, Gateways, EC2, S3, IAM and other typical components in an AWS environment.

• Expert skills, experience, and knowledge of designing, developing, and implementing automated test framework for infrastructure testing.

• Knowledge of Test Frameworks suitable for infrastructure testing. . Ruby based Chef InSpec (or similar).

• Ability to enrich the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) develop by DevOps / Cloud Engineers.

• Design & develop continuous integration & deployment pipelines for testing with Jenkins or similar.

• Ensure security policies are applied and run on a regular basis.

Hands on experience of:

• Linux / Unix and Windows Server.

• DevOps approach to delivery including relevant testing practices.

• Embedding testing into the CI/CD process including Terraform deployments or similar.

• Static testing techniques that help to prevent defects prior to development commencing.

Desirable skills include:

• Ansible, Containers, CloudFormation.

• Jira, Confluence, qTest, ALM, Quality Center or similar test management tools.

• ELK / monitoring.

• Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) practices.

• Prior experience of working on a large programme comprised of multiple vendors.

• Strong critical thinking skills with a proven ability to use them to ensure that the correct tests are identified during the design activity.

• 3 amigos style collaboration to reach common understanding of requirements, success criteria and test criteria.

Qualifications

No specific qualifications are required for this post. How To Apply