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Defence Business Services (DBS) DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 09 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £35,290 to £35,290 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27% |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2024 |
| Location: | Gosport, Hampshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 361066 |
Summary
What do the Armed Forces & Veterans Services (AF&VS) Team do?
This Team work with delivery partners to provide a range of trusted and efficient services to both service personnel and Veterans' communities. For current serving members of the Armed Forces this includes:
Personnel support processes;
Pay, Pensions & Allowances;
The Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre; and,
The MOD Medals Office.
For service Veterans and their dependants we provide support by administering the Armed Forces Pension Schemes, compensation payments for those injured or bereaved through service, and providing a package of welfare for Veterans. We also provide information and support to service leavers and their families as they leave the Armed Forces and transition to civilian life.
We also manage the Ilford Park nursing home for Polish Veterans and their families.
As a DevOps Engineer you’ll be a key member of the DevOps team and work closely with our commercial partner to ensure that data holdings are maintained and managed in accordance with their contractual obligations. Supporting the production service, investigating incidents and problems, and providing analysis and resolution as part of a resolver team, we’ll also expect you to:
transform technical requirements into DevOps processes
build complex stories without additional support
manage live test environments
identify and resolve issues that are preventing delivery
Availability & Capacity Management:
manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets
Development Process Optimisation:
explain the importance of developing process efficiency and the common ways in which processes are optimised
support specific activities to improve development processes
spot or identify obvious deficiencies
Information Security:
understand information security
design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats
Modern Standards Approach:
explain the most important principles of a modern standards approach and how they apply to the work you are undertaking
apply these principles under guidance
Programming and build (software engineering):
collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications
use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools
Prototyping:
approach prototyping as a team
establish design patterns and iterate them
use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate
Service Support:
identify, locate and fix faults
Systems Design:
translate logical designs into physical designs
produce detailed designs
effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate
design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact
work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns
Systems integration:
build and test simple interfaces between systems
work on more complex integration as part of a wider team
User Focus:
identify and engage with users or stakeholders to collate user needs evidence
understand and define research that fits user needs
use quantitative and qualitative data about users to turn user focus into outcomes
This role level iperformed at the Civil Service job grade of:HEO (Higher Executive Officer)
This Team work with delivery partners to provide a range of trusted and efficient services to both service personnel and Veterans' communities. For current serving members of the Armed Forces this includes:
Personnel support processes;
Pay, Pensions & Allowances;
The Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre; and,
The MOD Medals Office.
For service Veterans and their dependants we provide support by administering the Armed Forces Pension Schemes, compensation payments for those injured or bereaved through service, and providing a package of welfare for Veterans. We also provide information and support to service leavers and their families as they leave the Armed Forces and transition to civilian life.
We also manage the Ilford Park nursing home for Polish Veterans and their families.
As a DevOps Engineer you’ll be a key member of the DevOps team and work closely with our commercial partner to ensure that data holdings are maintained and managed in accordance with their contractual obligations. Supporting the production service, investigating incidents and problems, and providing analysis and resolution as part of a resolver team, we’ll also expect you to:
transform technical requirements into DevOps processes
build complex stories without additional support
manage live test environments
identify and resolve issues that are preventing delivery
Availability & Capacity Management:
manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets
Development Process Optimisation:
explain the importance of developing process efficiency and the common ways in which processes are optimised
support specific activities to improve development processes
spot or identify obvious deficiencies
Information Security:
understand information security
design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats
Modern Standards Approach:
explain the most important principles of a modern standards approach and how they apply to the work you are undertaking
apply these principles under guidance
Programming and build (software engineering):
collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications
use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools
Prototyping:
approach prototyping as a team
establish design patterns and iterate them
use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate
Service Support:
identify, locate and fix faults
Systems Design:
translate logical designs into physical designs
produce detailed designs
effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate
design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact
work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns
Systems integration:
build and test simple interfaces between systems
work on more complex integration as part of a wider team
User Focus:
identify and engage with users or stakeholders to collate user needs evidence
understand and define research that fits user needs
use quantitative and qualitative data about users to turn user focus into outcomes
This role level iperformed at the Civil Service job grade of:HEO (Higher Executive Officer)
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