Cloud Specialist Lead

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About this Role

The IPO IT department supports both our existing core business systems and our new, modern end-to-end digital services. Cloud Enablement sits within the IT Platform and Digital Enablement area and is a key player in the department's drive towards Cloud adoption.

The Cloud Specialist Lead provides technical leadership, guidance, and support for the broader Cloud community to embed high performance and delivery-focused outcomes. This role can be divided into three distinct responsibilities:

Provide Cloud technical leadership to project delivery teams, identifying and selecting appropriate Cloud technical solutions based on user needs and business requirements

Play an intrinsic role in building a strong and effective Community of Practice, creating technical documentation to support technical solutions and Knowledge Transfer. Mentor one or more Cloud Engineers providing appropriate guidance and expertise to guide them in key and critical decision making, building a greater capability across the profession.

Help shape the Cloud strategies and governance throughout the development and deployment process for technical solutions, embedding DevOps principles and technical best practices to provide reliable quality services to our internal and external customers.

Person Specification 

Expert knowledge and experience with cloud providers such as Azure (preferred), AWS, or Google Cloud

Significant knowledge and experience with Infrastructure-as-Code approaches to managing cloud resources (Terraform)

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

Demonstrable experience in service support including troubleshooting and incident resolution

Extensive experience of working within agile teams for rapid delivery

Detailed understanding of security in cloud

Understanding of appropriate governance for rapid delivery and support on cloud

Experience with modern delivery models such as Scrum and Agile

Experience of monitoring and logging tools such as Dynatrace, Azure applications insights and log analytics

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 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 it demonstrates your technical skills and experience against the essential requirements detailed in the role profile document.

For further information on the sift and interview stages of this recruitment campaign, please head to our 'Things you need to know' section below.

Responsibilities

Please refer to main duties and job specification

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Communicating and Influencing

Changing and Improving

Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

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

We'll assess you against the technical skills outlined in the attached role profiles: Expert knowledge and experience with cloud providers such as Azure (preferred), AWS, or Google Cloud Significant knowledge and experience with Infrastructure-as-Code

Benefits of working with the wider IPO:

A very generous pension scheme with 27.1% - 27.9% employer Further information can be found around the benefits of joining the Civil Service can be found via the Civil Service Pension Scheme page

25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments (1 day per year) over 5 years of reckonable service. You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave;

The opportunity to form part of our many inclusive network groups, find out by looking at Disability Jobs, BME Jobs and LGBT Jobs

A variety of support functions including our excellent Staff Counselling Service which is a source of support for all staff at the IPO

A flexible working scheme which has no core hours and excellent opportunities for home, part-time and term-time working;

Eligibility for special and office-wide bonus payments

Excellent development opportunities

Opportunities for secondments, both internal and external

Opportunities to join many civil-service clubs such as the Sports and Social Association, Motoring Club (CSMA), which provide numerous discounts to members

When working at Concept House, Newport the following benefits are also available:

A limited number of free car parking spaces are available on site

On-site facilities including gymnasium, shop, restaurant

Please note that benefits may be subject to change.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.