Senior DevOps Engineer

at  Ofgem

JOB SUMMARY

Use technology to shape the future of the energy industry
As the UK’s regulator for the energy industry, Ofgem works on behalf of energy consumers to ensure that every household and business in the UK can rely on a safe, affordable and environmentally sustainable energy supply. Now that record increases and volatility in global gas prices have put the energy market under severe strain, we’re more than ever looking for ways to innovate and modernise our approach to energy regulation. We are building a Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) driven organisation at Ofgem, and we need the best people involved to help us provide our customers with outstanding experiences,
This is an opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer to take on a central role in our technical community – working to ensure the continuity and resilience of our cloud PaaS/IaaS, working with Kubernetes clusters in Azure. You can expect to be deeply involved in continuous improvements to platforms, including system development, processes design and automation and diagnostics improvements to deliver assurance of platform security, privacy and resilience. You’ll work collaboratively within and beyond the DevOps community, using agile methodologies to securely automate and improve efficiencies between different internal platforms.
It’s a highly innovative working environment – both in terms of the technology we use and the working practices we adopt. We’re revolutionising how data is used within the energy sector making it a core tool in delivering our ambitions of net zero carbon emissions and lower energy prices for consumers.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team testing the boundaries of energy regulation in the UK, and to take your career to the next level.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups. While this is a full-time role, flexible working patterns and job shares are welcome.

JOB DESCRIPTION

An exciting opportunity for a driven individual to take on an exciting new career challenge.
You’ll be working with platform teams to develop, build and configure DevOps tools, technologies, techniques, patterns, and processes, and create trusted pipelines of work from development through to production environments utilising high degrees of automation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

• Please refer to the Candidate Pack and Role Profile attached for full details.

Benefits
Alongside your salary of £45,614, OFGEM contributes £12,315 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but is in review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.
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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

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TYPE OF ROLE

Architecture and Data
Digital
Engineering
Information Technology

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to building the DevOps engineering capability, culture and mind-sets within the organisation
• Coach product and platform teams to higher levels of DevOps capability, to drive continuous improvements and enhancing the end customer experience
• Developing, Testing, Debugging and Troubleshooting of Containized Infrastructure
• Support the set up of DevOps methodologies and tools within platform and product teams and demonstrate technical implementation
• Support the development and establishment of appropriate DevOps
• You will work with the development and operations teams to ensure that the Kubernetes infrastructure is able to handle the company’s workloads