Senior Development Operations Engineer

at  Planning Inspectorate

JOB SUMMARY

The Planning Inspectorate is recruiting for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our strong Digital and Data Services team as we seek to meet growing demands from our colleagues, government, and our customers.
This role is a Senior DevOps Engineer. You will be a member of a multidisciplinary team, managing the development and operation of applications, providing technical expertise, and identifying opportunities for improvement across projects. This includes our casework management systems, public facing websites, and internal tools, as we continue to create a more modern Inspectorate.
You’ll be working as part of a focussed team supporting our services in their delivery and looking at future opportunities to improve. Outside of the team, you’ll be a part of the Developer Community of Practice where you’ll have peer support and opportunities to share both knowledge and problems.
The Planning Inspectorate has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England. The work we do has a significant impact on people’s lives, the communities where they live and the economy.
We want our colleagues to be able to work more flexibly and more collaboratively, exploring new and innovative ways to improve the way we provide services.
For further information on the Planning Inspectorate, please see the information pack attached. You can also view our careers page at Civil Service Careers

JOB DESCRIPTION

You will be responsible for working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, focussed on delivering high quality code and infrastructure in line with project goals and delivery cycles. As well as this you will be working with a team of Developers, DevOps engineers and Testers where team members are supported and developed to enable them to fulfil their potential and contribute fully to the success of the organisation.
As a DevOps Engineer, you will provide technical recommendations and assurance within the team to identify the best technology and solutions to support integration and deployment of applications.
You will also keep up to date with the latest technologies and trends, whilst delivering working software early and often, learning new languages and frameworks and picking the right solutions.
Our Tech Stack

We rely heavily on:

• Azure for our infrastructure
• Azure DevOps for our CI/CD pipelines
• Terraform for our Infrastructure as Code
• GitHub to host and manage our code
• Docker and Web Apps for Containers
• NodeJS for our back-end code
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript for our web interfaces
• UK Design System for our web interfaces
• Azure SQL for data storage

We’re happy to help you learn our tech stack once you are part of our team.
Check out GitHub for a closer look at the technology we use.

A typical week in this role will consist of a blend of responsibilities, including:

• Prioritisation of work in line with deliverables and project goals.
• Writing Infrastructure as Code.
• Reviewing other DevOps work via GitHub Pull Requests.
• Offering technical expertise on infrastructure and technology choices.
• Providing guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Identifying and fixing faults.
• Providing technical assurance.

For full information on the role and assessment process please refer to the candidate pack attached.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Provisioning Infrastructure
• Build and Release Pipelines

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £44,220, Planning Inspectorate contributes £11,984 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Flexible working options, including flexi-time, part-time, compressed hours and home working if suitable for the role.
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity.
• 25 days annual leave increasing by 1 day per year up to 30 days after 5 years, plus 1 privilege day to mark the King’s birthday. In addition to the normal bank holidays.
• Generous family friendly policies.
• Fast and modern IT kit which utilises Windows 10 and Microsoft 365, enabling seamless working from home and collaboration across teams.

For full information see our Benefits information pack.
Things you need to know

DISABILITY CONFIDENT INTERVIEW SCHEME

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. We run a Disability Confident Interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

To be considered for an interview under the scheme you must:

• have a disability defined by the Equality Act 2010
• provide evidence in your application that you meet the minimum criteria in the job description
• meet all of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential

While we will endeavour to provide you with all the appropriate information, you are the expert on your specific requirements so if you require any adjustments, you should consider the information provided about the assessment process in the candidate pack and then:

• Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. The earlier and more clearly you tell us what you need and why you need it, the more likely we are to be able to accommodate you in a timely fashion.

All Planning Inspectorate colleagues must meet the baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window). This is a series of basic security checks to confirm identity and employment history.
In addition to the BPSS, the level of security clearance required for this role is Security Check (SC) and the process can take a number of weeks to complete. For more details of vetting levels and requirements please refer to the Cabinet Office HMG Personnel Security Controls.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

TYPE OF ROLE

Architecture and Data
Digital
Information Technology
Knowledge and Information Management

A typical week in this role will consist of a blend of responsibilities, including:

• Prioritisation of work in line with deliverables and project goals.
• Writing Infrastructure as Code.
• Reviewing other DevOps work via GitHub Pull Requests.
• Offering technical expertise on infrastructure and technology choices.
• Providing guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Identifying and fixing faults.
• Providing technical assurance