DevOps Specialist Lead

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About this Role

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 more quickly? Are you looking for a new role in an organisation that treats you as an individual and supports you on your professional and career development journey? Then this is the role for you!

We have an exciting opportunity to join the IPO IT team in our DevOps Enablement team within the IT Platform and Digital Enablement group, supporting the department during the IPO digital transformation journey. Working within an established team, this role provides an opportunity to turn innovative ideas into customer value using a range of technologies and delivery platforms.

Person Specification

Strong understanding of DevOps principles and experience of working in a DevOps or iterative development culture.

Excellent knowledge and proven experience implementing continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) processes and tools, including pipeline design and administration.

Experience with automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines.

Demonstrable experience in service support including troubleshooting and incident resolution.

Experience in identification and tracking of risks and issues.

Excellent communication skills and experience of knowledge sharing and mentoring junior members of the team.

Experience in leading DevOps expertise and decision making across the whole software delivery lifecycle

Experience in identifying and selecting appropriate DevOps technical solutions based on user needs and business requirements

Technical Skills

Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform

Experience in containerisation technologies and platforms such as Docker or Azure container services such as Azure App Services, Azure Functions or Azure Container Registry or equivalent.

Experience in managing and supporting distributed source code repositories including Git.

Experience of consuming cloud platform resources (Microsoft Azure preferred).

Substantial experience in administration and configuration of Azure DevOps Pipelines (preferred), github or other CI/CD orchestration tools.

Substantial experience in software development process and tools, and development or scripting experience in one or more of the following:

Python 

Bash

PowerShell

Substantial experience supporting the build and deployment of, or coding in one or more of the following or equivalent:

Python

Java

.Net Core / C#

Working Style

This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to attend the office 1 day per week, or equivalent if part-time, on-site at our Newport OR London office. However, we recognise this is a hard to fill role and would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.

Benefits

Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access

Access to Microsoft's ESI training suite

Pension: 27.1% - 27.9% employer contributions

Hybrid working with no core hours

Substantial support for career progression

25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments

You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave

How to apply

Click the 'Apply now' button and complete the application form by uploading an anonymised copy of your current CV.

Your CV will be used to assess your suitability for the role therefore please ensure that you evidence the essential requirements listed in the person specification above.