DevOps

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Developing digital services will not only delight the beneficiaries, but also improve their overall health and wellbeing, which will in turn improve the health of the nation. Transforming experiences whilst building the career you want -

we will give you the support to do it all.

Join our journey. It starts with you.

With a recently established new Digital function, we're looking for developers to help us with two big objectives.

Firstly,

we are inhousing our digital development after years of using an agency.

Secondly,

we are re-platforming, bringing in a new DXP and eCommerce platform.

This role will:

Be accountable for the design, automation, operational and build needs of all infrastructure andapplication components

Provide technical leadership, guidance and assurance across the breadth of Development Operations

Support digital products in all environments, with a particular need to support high-volume transactional services provided via online platform

Be responsible for working collaboratively as part of a multi-functional team, focused on one or moreAgile projects

Be responsible for operating within a community of developers and architects, adding value to the whole through innovation, ideation and collaborative development of technial standards

Key Responsibilities

Manage and build technical environments (production, preview and test environments), CI/CD pipeline,monitoring, and associated toolsets to support the needs of the delivery team against agreed businesspriorities

Build scripts to automate the deployment of infrastructure as code, including containerisationtechnologies

Support team members in automating the testing and deployment of their code within providedenvironments

Participate in support activities related to developed services/solutions, and potentially out-of-hourssupport

Share knowledge of tools and techniques with wider team, both developers and non-developers

Act as a digital ambassador across organisation, identifying good practices to adopt and sharingexperiences

Monitor technology developments relevant to the organisation and sector

Assist Architects in the creation and evolution of the our Architecture and Standards.

Experience, Knowledge & Expertise - Essential

Deep experience in DevOps function to facilitate growth in this transformatin, with a desire to push forward and encourage others to enhance the DevOps function

Experience working in a highly iterative environment in a multi-functional team, collaborating closely with colleagues to meet business and customer needs

Proven ability to research and learn new development tools and techniques quickly

Experience of using a systematic approach to solving problems

Understanding of agile environments and version control

Experience using cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS

Experience debugging a complex, multi-server service in a high-availability environment

Experience of Unix-based operating systems, e.g. Linux

Experience using scripting for automation, e.g. Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ruby.

Experience using languages such as Ruby, Python, Go and Java

Experience using configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt

Experience administering common open source databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and platform services such as Azure SQL Database, Amazon RDS. Experience in NoSQL databases such asMongoDB, Azure Cosmos would be beneficial.

Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP/S, TLS

Understanding of application deployment strategies, continuous integration and version control

Understanding of automated testing

Understanding of software design principles

Understanding of web security

Experience, Knowledge & Expertise - Desirable

Back-end: Java & associated platform frameworks

Back-end development skills in other languages/frameworks, e.g. Ruby, Python, Scala or Go

Extensive experience of CI/CD environments and tools, including TDD, contnuous integration,continuous delivery and DevOps

Working with Open Source projects and tools

Using containers, distributed schedulers, and minimalist operating systems

Qualification