Senior DevOps Engineer

As the UK's regulator for the energy industry, Ofgem works on behalf of energy consumers to ensure that every household and business in the UK can rely on a safe, affordable and environmentally sustainable energy supply. Now that record increases and volatility in global gas prices have put the energy market under severe strain, we're more than ever looking for ways to innovate and modernise our approach to energy regulation. We are building a Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) driven organisation at Ofgem, and we need the best people involved to help us provide our customers with outstanding experiences,

This is an opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer to take on a central role in our technical community - working to ensure the continuity and resilience of our cloud PaaS/IaaS, working with Kubernetes clusters in Azure. You can expect to be deeply involved in continuous improvements to platforms, including system development, processes design and automation and diagnostics improvements to deliver assurance of platform security, privacy and resilience. You'll work collaboratively within and beyond the DevOps community, using agile methodologies to securely automate and improve efficiencies between different internal platforms.

It's a highly innovative working environment - both in terms of the technology we use and the working practices we adopt. We're revolutionising how data is used within the energy sector making it a core tool in delivering our ambitions of net zero carbon emissions and lower energy prices for consumers.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team testing the boundaries of energy regulation in the UK, and to take your career to the next level. 

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups. While this is a full-time role, flexible working patterns and job shares are welcome.

An exciting opportunity for a driven individual to take on an exciting new career challenge. 

You'll be working with platform teams to develop, build and configure DevOps tools, technologies, techniques, patterns, and processes, and create trusted pipelines of work from development through to production environments utilising high degrees of automation. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Contribute to building the DevOps engineering capability, culture and mind-sets within the organisation 

• Coach product and platform teams to higher levels of DevOps capability, to drive continuous improvements and enhancing the end customer experience 

• Developing, Testing, Debugging  and Troubleshooting of Containized Infrastructure 

• Support the set up of DevOps methodologies and tools within platform and product teams and demonstrate technical implementation 

• Support the development and establishment of appropriate DevOps 

• You will work with the development and operations teams to ensure that the Kubernetes infrastructure is able to handle the company's workloads 

Essential Criteria 

• Experience of Deployments and Maintaining Azure Kubernetes Pipelines (LEAD) 
• Experience of Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (LEAD) 
• Experience establishing monitoring systems and alerting procedures. 
• Knowledge and experience working with Azure cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes