DevOps Engineer - HSE - HEO
Government Digital & Data -
Keeping people safe and healthy matters and that’s what we do at the Health and Safety Executive. Every day, everyone on the team contributes to protecting lives and we apply our expertise to help influence change in mindsets about health and safety throughout industry. We undertake world-class science to build our knowledge about safe working practices, and then apply that understanding to the workplace, guiding every part of the economy to function safely. And when accidents happen, we investigate and hold those at fault to account whilst ensuring that lessons are learnt across industries. We are a modern, independent, data drive Regulator and we are proud to have made Great Britain one of the safest places to work in the world.
Technology, data, and digital services underpins everything that HSE does. We are a knowledge organisation, with a wealth of experience in keeping people safe. It is the responsibility of the Information and Technology Services (ITS) Division to ensure that everyone in the organisation can access our data and information, to share it and to use it to make effective decisions. ITS support over 3000 colleagues working across Great Britain and, our services keep inspectors functioning effectively and efficiently on industrial sites nationwide, from oil platforms in the North Sea to our deepest mines and quarries.
Job description
We have an opportunity for a DevOps Engineer to join the ITS Division.
To deliver Development Operations (DevOps) Engineering for all HSE cloud-infrastructure services ensuring that all technologies (cloud-network, cloud-hosting (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), cloud-storage and cloud-security) remain available, performant to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and relevant to business requirements. Deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE, and support the implementation of continuous improvement (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for services once live. Operate and deliver the processes, architectures, and services that will deliver all of HSE digital and technology services. Ensure that new cloud-based technologies are secure by design and remain secure during operations, protecting HSE’s data and users from cyber-attack and unauthorised loss. This role will engage with users, supporting their needs and ensuring that a high-quality customer-focused service is delivered.
As a DevOps Engineer, you will thrive and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or many projects. You will be supporting existing cloud-based services, assisting in the design, and delivery of new cloud-based services as we expand HSE’s digital services in Azure, adhering to GDS principles and using Agile principles.
Main Duties:
- As DevOps Engineer you will help to develop the capability of HSEs newly formed multi-skilled DevOps Engineering team to manage the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate.
- You will help establish and then operate DevOps processes, establishing a regime and culture of continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD).
- You will work closely with the development and test communities as we strive to automate our processes and implement new tooling.
- You will support the design, implementation and management of solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable and maintainable within our cloud environment.
- You will deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE.
Please note -The post can be based in any HSE location (except for our London offices), however attendance at HSE Headquarters in Bootle will be required for Full ITS Meetings at minimum twice per year. - occasional travel to other HSE Offices may be required. For further information about HSE locations please click here.
You are required to work a 37 hour week based on a 5 day working week and 7.4 hours day. The working week is between 07:00 and 19:00 Monday to Friday. There is the possibility of Saturday working between 07:00 and 19:00. As far as possible your Line Manager will agree your working pattern(s) with you including any Saturday working. There may be times when you are required to work additional hours and/or a late shift to accommodate operational needs or unplanned events. Where it is necessary for operational reasons to vary your ‘normal’ working pattern(s) you will be notified by your manager in advance.
You may also be required to be on an on-call rota.
Person specification
Essential Skills and Criteria:
- Experience of implementing and administering cloud-based solutions in Microsoft Azure, utilising IaaS or PaaS based services.
- Experience of building and optimising CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
- Knowledge of monitoring of live cloud services.
- Experience using scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Bash).
- Experience of creating and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Bicep, ARM templates) in a source control management system.
- Effective communication skills.
- Knowledge of managing the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
- Managing a Quality Service
