DevOps Engineer

• Location: Newport 
• Salary: £36,736 - £46,743 (including allowances)
• Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
• Business Area: DDaT - Technology 

Are you passionate about collaborative working and problem-solving?Do you enjoy using your technical skills to help teams work more effectively, and get software into the hands of users with speed and stability?If you are looking for a role where you are treated as an individual and supported in your professional development, then this DevOps Engineer position is for you!

An excellent, exciting opportunity within a growing civil service business, the Platform Engineering group during the companies digital transformation journey. This role is perfect for someone who wants to turn innovative ideas into customer value using a range of technologies and delivery platforms.

Day-to-Day of the Role:

• Support all aspects of the software development lifecycle, applying DevOps principles.
• Lead on developing, implementing, enhancing, and managing DevOps practices following agreed processes and best practices.
• Design, release, and implement automated, efficient delivery pipelines and manage deployments onto Production.
• Provide administration, configuration, and troubleshooting support for CI & CD pipelines and hosted container applications.
• Work on delivery, integration, administration, and configuration of DevOps tools.
• Conduct reviews and quality checks for newly delivered code and advocate for security and performance standards.
• Implement and configure DevOps specific monitoring, alerting, auditing, and notification strategies.
• Contribute to technical decisions and directions in a collaborative team environment.
• Attend Team and Agile Scrum ceremonies.
• Promote and encourage the use of test automation and infrastructure-as-code within delivery teams.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Understanding of DevOps principles and experience in a DevOps or iterative development culture.
• Demonstrable experience with CI & CD tools, including pipeline implementation.
• Awareness of automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with experience in service support.
• Technical skills in Python, Bash, PowerShell.
• Experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines or other CI/CD orchestration tools.
• Experience in containerisation technologies and platforms such as Docker or Azure container services.
• Experience managing and supporting distributed source code repositories (Git).
• Experience of consuming cloud platform resources (Microsoft Azure preferred).

Benefits:

• A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Hybrid working arrangements with at least 20% of time spent onsite.
• Opportunities for professional and career development.

To apply for this DevOps Engineer position, please submit your CV to be considered immediately.