Senior DevOps Engineer - Technology CSC - Counter Terrorism Policing HQ

Job summary

The Senior DevOps Engineer will support the development of a cloud platform for national systems within Counter Terrorism Policing HQ. This role involves transforming technical requirements into solutions, testing and deploying updates, creating automations, and ensuring adherence to standards. The engineer will also mentor junior colleagues and drive continuous improvement in cloud services.

Qualifications

• a background in modern software engineering or platform infrastructure support
• a proven track record of creating and maintaining infrastructure as code platforms, cloud environments or similar
• Experience of working in an agile environment
• Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices
• Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively to contribute to the mission
• Demonstrate the ability to keep up to date with the latest developments in technologies and methodologies
• Engage in continuous learning to become a subject matter expert, particularly in relevant technologies
• Work co-operatively with others, developing positive working relationships with customers, colleagues and stakeholders
• Experience in application development environments or coding
• Leadership or team development experience

Responsibilities

• Transforming technical requirements into effective technical solutions to enable product delivery, and ensuring deployment strategies are repeatable and scalable
• Using your technical knowledge as you support delivery teams and end users
• Testing and deploying product updates, resolving issues, and implementing integrations
• Create and improve automations and monitoring, and acting as the technical product owner for some parts of our cloud infrastructure
• Providing project oversight to ensure standards are met, and working with your colleagues to ensure software development follows established processes
• Ensuring the personal and team workload is effectively managed, prioritised and issues are escalated if necessary
• Ensuring adherence to required polices, standards, controls and best practice
• Creating, maintaining and reviewing technical documentation
• Proactively monitoring cloud environments to help prevent and resolve any issues
• Driving continuous improvement across cloud services
• Assisting with the mentoring of junior colleagues and the development of the team

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Certifications

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Work schedule

Security clearance

Relocation