Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

£56,745 to £72,509 per annum dependent on skills and experience (this may include allowances)

Full time

Permanent

Polaris House, Swindon or Keyworth, Nottingham (Hybrid working available).

Closing Date Sunday 19th January 2025.

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 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.

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.

To view the full job description please click apply' to visit our careers site.

Benefits

We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package! We are committed to supporting employees' development and promote a culture of continuous learning! A list of benefits below.

An excellent defined benefit pension scheme

30 days' annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent)

Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities.

Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice.

Flexible working options

How to Apply

Applicants are required to provide an up-to-date CV and a cover letter outlining their suitability for the role. Please click apply' for further information and to visit our careers page.