Senior DevOps Engineer - UKRI - G7

As a minimum, due to the nature of this role, candidates must be eligible for clearance in line with UK National vetting guidelines and willing to undertake the process. 

The level of clearance required is security check 

Do you want to lead the way in transforming UK research and innovation? Join UKRI as a Senior DevOps Engineer and shape modern, scalable, and impactful solutions at the heart of technology.

Job description

Job Overview

The UKRI CIO Group plays a pivotal role in leading and optimising the organisations critical enterprise technical services that underpin and enable UKRI’s business capabilities. Within the group a team of Software Development and IT Operations professionals support the delivery of modern, secure, resilient and scalable services across a larger federated team of Digital, Data and Technology professionals to deliver impact across the organisation and the wider UK research and innovation system.

This post provides a rare opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer to step into a lead planning and operations role in an organisation at the heart of research and innovation in the UK. Working as part of a team of technical specialists, and reporting directly to Principle DevOps Engineer, your broad remit is to support the development and operation of software through tools, environments and practices by underpinning good development processes including managing tools and testing environments, central code control, maintaining development standards and writing software that automates systems

Responsibilities

• Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues.
• Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available.
• Work effectively across multi-discipline teams and provide cross boundary technical leadership.
• Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems.

Person specification

About you

You will be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Availability and capacity management skills
• Development process optimisation skills
• Knowledge of secure solution design
• Able to implement modern development standards.
• Understanding of programming & build activities.

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