Senior DevOps Engineer

at  Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Electronic Patient Records (EPR) represents a major IT project in Moorfield’s excellence delivery programme. EPR will collate and consolidate the management of clinical records to support clinicians and colleagues across the trust in making more effective decisions, improving clinical outcomes and patient experience.
Our vision is to create a digitally enabled organisation that supports the delivery of efficient and effective patient care. We aim to achieve this through easy-to-use systems that provide staff and patients with access to the right information, in the right place, at the right time. To help us to achieve this vision, we are looking for passionate individuals to join our team.
Patients are at the centre of everything we do. Our EPR will help us to ensure that we continue to improve our delivery of services and treatment plans around patient needs. The EPR is designed to wrap around our specialist ophthalmology clinical noting system, OpenEyes, to provide a seamlessly integrated patient record system. Combining this leading ophthalmology centred noting system with the benefits of broader patient-centred record integration is an exciting step forward in supporting trust staff to continue to deliver leading eye care as we get closer to moving to our new centre for advancing eye care, currently known as Oriel, which is being built in Camden.
Commonly referred to as ‘DevOps engineers’, development operations engineers support the development and operation of software through tools, environments and practices.
In this role, you will be responsible for underpinning good development processes including managing tools and testing environments, central code control, maintaining development standards and writing software that automates systems.
Some of the core services that you will support is as follows (but not limited to, as business requirements evolve / change):
Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
Trust Integration Engine (TIE) – connecting clinical systems, messaging and data
Data Warehouse
Internal developed applications
You will have experience with web, development, database and integration technologies (example: APIs). You will have an understanding for service management environments, covering incident, problem, change and release management activities.
You will put people at the heart of everything you do – with a relentless focus on user experience and ensuring all our user needs are met across sites at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
With the ever-increasing need and interest in the use of digital technology in healthcare, you will be part of a team of Digital, Data and Technology experts that delivers service improvements and keeps at the forefront of new technology.
If you are invited for an interview, you will be required to take a technical test along side the interview.
At Moorfields, we provide more than just an excellent career and great colleagues to work with. We also offer:
Salary including High-Cost Area Supplement
Opportunity to join the NHS Pension Scheme
Free 24/7 independent counselling service
Learning and development opportunities
Easy and quick transport links
A range of attractive benefits and discounts
Access to Blue Light Card and other NHS Discount Schemes
Free Pilates classes
Full support and training to develop your skills
Flexible working friendly organisation
And so much more! To see the full range of benefits we offer please see our Moorfields benefits document.
Availability and capacity management
Ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures
Identify capacity issues, and stipulate and instigate the required changes
Initiate remedial action
Development process optimisation
Explain the importance of developing process efficiency and the common ways in which processes are optimised
Identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and lead on the implementation of proposed solutions
Information security
Understand information security
Design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats as a core feature
Modern standards approach
Competently apply a modern standards approach and guide others to do so
Programming and build
Collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications
Use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools
Prototyping
Approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others
Establish design patterns and iterate them
Use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate
Service Reporting
Ensure the development and release management platforms are kept up-to-date at all times
Produce relevant operational delivery and release management reports in a standard format and agreed timeframe
Work with important stakeholders to discuss any changes in the reporting processes
Add a commentary that provides an interpretation of the data set
Service support
Demonstrate a breadth of understanding of service support
Systems design
Design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity
Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively
Review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology
Systems Integration
Define the integration build
Co-ordinate build activities across systems
Understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities
Technical specialism
Demonstrate experience and knowledge of multiple development areas, covering but not limited to - web, development, database and integration technologies (example: APIs).
User focus
Collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally
Explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user
Champion user research to focus on all users
Prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so
Offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use
Use quantitative and qualitative data about users to turn user focus into outcomes

Participate in the on-call service
Occasional work may be required outside of core business hours to support major projects / programmes
All other reasonable requests
Develop and maintain a network of professionals to enable continuous learning and a community which can share, learn, and keep up to date on the application landscape