Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer

6 months

Remote

Inside ir35 - Umbrella only

Active SC security clearance required

Role overview

The primary function of the role will be to design, develop, and build new products as well as introduce new functionality and monitoring capabilities to help further enhance the IAM service outreach and reporting capabilities. This in turn enables the HO to improve its reporting capability and reduce the likelihood of an internal cyber-attack.

The role also requires the successful candidate to support both short and long-term discovery within technical teams and developers, helping them understand design constraints, and workforce/cost implications. They will also report to and advise the Service Owner on the CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, ensuring that new users are able to deploy at an appropriate speed whilst maintaining oversight of several technical workstreams.

To ensure delivery of the business's objectives, the Lead DevOps Engineer will also be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support any recruitment and assessment activities as required.

Main responsibilities

he main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Supporting teams in mapping their stories to the available platforms, helping effectively build and deploy secure services.
• Undertaking skilled platform build/support activities, such as developing hardened base containers
• Spotting instances where teams are not using best practice; advising around delivery risks
• Support other engineers and teams in service topology and discovery; helping to
• define QA and deployment pipelines
• Driving adoption of new tools so teams they can improve their integration approaches; developing new or improved support processes for users
• Ensuring Delivery in support of the already established product roadmap and ensuring new products are transitioned seamlessly into service.

Other day to day activities

All our engineers will be expected to embody an open and positive approach, supporting in:

• Progressing the Government Digital and Data Profession, understanding all roles and helping to build our community
• Working and assessing to appropriate standards: for instance, accessibility, the GDS service standard and our own community practices
• improving our skills and approaches as well as keeping up to speed with the technology landscape
• Reducing the IAM Cyber risk by continuously delivering against the Product roadmap

Essential Skills

The successful candidate must display a passion for IAM with the following skills or experience in:

• Candidates should have experience of Agile, ways of working or be familiar with working within an Agile environment.
• Have experience of delivering against a Product Roadmap
• Display previous experience at developing products and systems

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!