Senior DevOps Engineer

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Job description

On behalf of HM Land Registry, we are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 8 Month contract based Hybrid/ Plymouth/Croydon

Working as a contractor for HM Land Registry

Our ambition is to become the world's leading land registry for speed, simplicity, and an open approach to data. Our award-winning digital team is the in-house directorate at the heart of our transformation into a digital, data driven organisation. We are playing a pivotal role in ensuring that we are able to respond swiftly to our current challenges. We are providing a robust and resilient technical infrastructure to support our workforce. We are enabling our customers to interact with us in increasingly digital and automated ways and delivering our transformation portfolio which will revolutionise the way that we operate and provide services.

Our Digital teams are at the core of our plans for digital transformation for the future. At HM Land Registry we have a vision of a fully connected, digital system for buying and selling property that enables a more secure and more efficient land registration process. By joining us in a digital role, you can be at the cutting edge of our work to revolutionise the way property and land is transacted in the UK, supporting our vision of a world-leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future.

At HM Land Registry, we're passionate about developing and attracting the best talent. People are at the heart of our plans for the future, so we have established a 'community of practice' for every profession within our directorate. We now have 15 communities in total, including software development, data science, and product management. These communities are groups of talented people who perform similar roles and, through regular meetups and online forums, both within HM Land Registry and across wider Government, share best practice, discuss challenges, and support each other - which means happier, more motivated people!

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

* Manage the Kubernetes and cloud based Shared Technology Platform consisting of AWS, Openshift and Puppet automation technologies.
* Work with the Service Teams to transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery of new business services on to the Shared Technology platform.
* Create and manage infrastructure using repeatable tooling that are scalable and highly available.
* Troubleshoot issues early on in development lifecycles to ensure effective production services, escalating risks and issues where appropriate.
* In conjunction with the Lead DevOps Engineer and subject matter experts from IT Operations and relevant practises, develop and maintain IT Infrastructure to ensure the availability, integrity and performance of services.
* Act as a reference point for those technical areas in your technical specialism, and to dispose personally of complex technical points arising on operational service incidents or strategic IT development projects as required.
* Provide clear communication of how own teams' work impacts other technical areas, end users and stakeholders.
* Provide effective management of conflict and non-inclusive behaviour within the technical team.
* Perform as a technical and behavioural role model within the IT Operations Practice and associated areas.
* Contributing to the continual improvement of the practise and the IT Operations community, supporting community members to build and maintain cohesion.
* Ensure the development of team members to meet the future needs of HMLR, addressing succession planning issues and eliminating any single points of failure
* Take the lead on the analysis and resolution of major issues and problems arising on operational services.
* Define operational processes and procedures in order to maintain the resilience and integrity of the IT infrastructure
* Identify and scope opportunities to improve technical services. Lead any resulting change activity.
* Engage in technical liaison, with customers, IT partners and suppliers.
* Take on accountability for ensuring that their technical area follows the principles of the Technology strategy.
* Make decisions to ensure that technical implementations are compatible with the aims of the HM Land Registry business strategy and be able to escalate where appropriate.
* Work with peers within the Technical Specialist community, and SLT to continually review practices and scope of the role.
* Coach and develop junior engineers.

Essential:

* Experience of providing technical leadership and support within a team of DevOps Engineers.
* Strong experience of Sagemaker Studio: supporting AWS data services such as Lambda, Glue, SQS, Athena, Kafka, ElastiCache (Redis) additionally Amazon API Gateway supporting the development of RESTful APIs.
* Supporting Linux Operating Systems, containers and containerised workloads e.g. orchestration services such as OpenShift and Kubernetes.
* Familiarity with at least one programming language such as Ruby, Java, Python, Javascript, Go
* Infrastructure-as-code across cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure)
* Experience of DevOps working practices of Continuous Integration. Continuous Delivery and the use of version control (Git and GitLab CI)
* Configuration-as-code across cloud and on-premise environments using Terraform.
* Working in an agile environment building, deploying, supporting, and operating cloud applications (in particular AWS).
* Experience of Kubernetes

Desirable:

* Experience of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or CentOS
* Experience of Git
* Experience of automation on cloud hosting platforms.
* Experience of RedHat Openshift

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Land Registry guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant

HM Land Registry guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".

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