Cloud Engineer

at  Office for National Statistics

Location: We operate a flexible hybrid working model across the UK, with colleagues linked to one of our contractual locations in Newport, Titchfield (Fareham), London, Manchester and Edinburgh, and working between office and remote throughout the week.
Salary: £43,013 - £50,050 (National: £43,013 - £46,654, London: £47,731 - £50,050) plus up to £5,000 skills allowance
Working Patterns: All our vacancies are offered as a flexible option of Full time, Part time, Flexible working, Job Share
Closing Date: Apply before 11:55pm on Tuesday 4th February 2025
We’re looking for a Cloud Engineer (known internally as “Senior DevSecOps Engineer") to join our Data Access Platform (DAP) team, supporting a newly commissioned Big Data Platform (Cloudera) and helping to establish and embed Cloud best practices into the team.
You’ll become a fully fledged subject matter expert in Cloud technology - particularly AWS and utilising it to support our Cloudera Data Platform. You’ll be designing and developing Infrastructure-as-Code, source code repositories and CI/CD pipelines, and help to define what “secure by design” means for this platform and for our Cloud environments in general.
Who are we looking for?

Someone who is:

• Familiar with Big Data platforms - Especially Cloudera Data Platform!
• Experienced administering AWS
• Knowledgeable about Cloud infrastructure security principles
• Familiar with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (like Terraform)
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines (like Concourse)
• Familiar with containerisation technology (like Kubernetes)
• Capable of resolving complex technical issues
• An excellent communicator
• Comfortable providing constructive feedback & mentoring to junior colleagues

FOR A FULL JOB DESCRIPTION AND DETAILS OF THE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR, PLEASE CLICK THE APPLY BUTTON TO SEE OUR FULL ADVERT ON CIVIL SERVICE JOBS.

In return we offer you:
✔Hybrid working in an organisation voted top in the UK for work-life balance
✔A market leading pension scheme - our employer contribution rate is around 29%
✔ A choice of working patterns for every role full-time, part-time, job-share.
✔Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of 26 weeks full pay (subject to qualifying criteria)
✔Opportunities to learn new technology & skills on the job, utilising blocked out Protected Learning Time in your weekly schedule and taking advantage of the support of our Communities of Practice
✔Employee Assistance Programmes
✔Diversity Network Groups
✔Mental Health Allies
✔Civil Service Sports and Social club
✔Generous holiday allowance – 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years service in addition to 9 public holidays

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £43,031.00-£46,654.00 per year

Benefits:

• Canteen
• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Employee mentoring programme
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Flexitime
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking
• Paid volunteer time
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Manchester M1 6EU
Reference ID: 38702