DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

• Location: Newport 
• Salary: £36,736 - £46,743 (including allowances)
• Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
• Business Area: DDaT - Technology 

Are you passionate about collaborative working and problem-solving Do you enjoy using your technical skills to help teams work more effectively, and get software into the hands of users with speed and stability If you are looking for a role where you are treated as an individual and supported in your professional development, then this DevOps Engineer position is for you!

An excellent, exciting opportunity within a growing civil service business, the Platform Engineering group during the companies digital transformation journey. This role is perfect for someone who wants to turn innovative ideas into customer value using a range of technologies and delivery platforms.

Day-to-Day of the Role:

• Support all aspects of the software development lifecycle, applying DevOps principles.
• Lead on developing, implementing, enhancing, and managing DevOps practices following agreed processes and best practices.
• Design, release, and implement automated, efficient delivery pipelines and manage deployments onto Production.
• Provide administration, configuration, and troubleshooting support for CI & CD pipelines and hosted container applications.
• Work on delivery, integration, administration, and configuration of DevOps tools.
• Conduct reviews and quality checks for newly delivered code and advocate for security and performance standards.
• Implement and configure DevOps specific monitoring, alerting, auditing, and notification strategies.
• Contribute to technical decisions and directions in a collaborative team environment.
• Attend Team and Agile Scrum ceremonies.
• Promote and encourage the use of test automation and infrastructure-as-code within delivery teams.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Understanding of DevOps principles and experience in a DevOps or iterative development culture.
• Demonstrable experience with CI & CD tools, including pipeline implementation.
• Awareness of automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with experience in service support.
• Technical skills in Python, Bash, PowerShell.
• Experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines or other CI/CD orchestration tools.
• Experience in containerisation technologies and platforms such as Docker or Azure container services.
• Experience managing and supporting distributed source code repositories (Git).
• Experience of consuming cloud platform resources (Microsoft Azure preferred).

Benefits:

• A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Hybrid working arrangements with at least 20% of time spent onsite.
• Opportunities for professional and career development.

To apply for this DevOps Engineer position, please submit your CV to be considered immediately.