PERMANENT

Use your DevOps skills to make a direct impact on society. At the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), we are committed to transforming lives by helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing. We are looking for a passionate Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team and build the highly available Azure cloud services that make this crucial mission possible.
Working with our architects and development teams, you will be central to designing, building, and maintaining our deployment pipelines and environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Your expertise will directly empower our delivery teams and advance the DevOps practices that allow us to help millions of people achieve financial stability.
This role is aligned with DDaT – Development operations (DevOps) engineer – Senior DevOps engineer: Senior DevOps engineer - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
You’ll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing.

ABOUT US

The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is based in Bedford, in a recently renovated modern office. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to become an integral part of a dynamic organisation, working to help people across the UK.

At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting, and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves with our values:

• CARINGWe care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform.
• CONNECTINGWe will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections.
• TRANSFORMINGWe are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.

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)
• 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

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, build and maintain resources in Azure cloud using Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Terraform).
• Lead the design and development of our deployment pipelines and automation solutions using Azure and open-source tooling.
• Continuously analyse our DevOps processes and identify opportunities to further automate and refine our deployment practices.
• Engage collaboratively in an agile environment, working closely with solution architects, technical leads and developers.
• Implementation of services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
• Contribute to low level design and maintain documentation.
• Peer reviewing IaC developed as part of our workflow.
• Able to self-manage including keeping technical knowledge up to date.
• Promoting collaborative working, efficiencies and knowledge transfer.
• Actively participating within the wider community of practice; advocating DevOps best practices and sharing knowledge/experience.
• Mentoring and providing guidance to DevOps and Software Developers.
• Leading/facilitating technical discussions and engaging with external delivery partners as appropriate.

SKILLS NEEDED FOR THE ROLE LEVEL:

• Availability and capacity management. You can manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets. (Skill level: working)
• Development process optimisation. You can work under guidance to identify process optimisation opportunities and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions. (Skill level: working)
• Information security. You can design solutions and services with security controls included, specifically engineered to mitigate security threats. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Modern standards approach. You can apply modern development standards and support others in applying them. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Programming and build (software engineering). You can collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications. You can use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Prototyping. You can approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You can establish design patterns and iterate them. You can use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Service support. You can identify, locate and fix complex service faults, advise others on different methodologies and types of service support (Skill level: expert)
• Systems design. You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You can select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Systems integration. You can define the integration build, co-ordinate build activities across systems and understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities. (Skill level: practitioner)
• User focus. You can collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. You can explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can champion user research to focus on all users. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use. (Skill level: practitioner)