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Defence Business Services (DBS) DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 30 January 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £36,530 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 March 2025 |
| Location: | PO13 9XA, BS34 8QW, FY5 3WP, G2 8EX |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 388409 |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Defence Business Services (DBS), Armed Forces and Veterans Services (AFVS), Development & Change (DevChg) DevOps Team. You will be part of a small DevOps (Development and Operations) team of Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) technical specialists, who provide development and support activities to a central AFVS data analytical service within the MoD. Analytical services provide statistical and detailed AFVS reports and dashboards, either directly or by self-serve, to enable the MoD to make informed decisions on military strength or investments, as well as a multitude of other business purposes related to people e.g. recruitment, training, health, pay, allowances, unit, assignment, etc.
DBS AFVS are collaborating with their commercial partners to deliver a major transformation programme aimed at providing a more robust and coherent IT/infrastructure using the latest Oracle Analytical and Data Integration products which will migrate to Cloud based services, offering many benefits, including a better customer experience.
As the successful candidate you’ll be a key member of the DevOps team, who provide business enhancement to a major Management Information reporting service within the MoD. Working collaboratively with our Commercial Partners, you will provide OAS technical support, maintenance, and development activities on a large enterprise data warehouse MI reporting application. You will be part of a wider group responsible for the development of change, which enhances the digital capabilities of services provided by AFVS.
Your responsibilities in this role.
Provide data modelling, business analysis and development skills across the reporting platform.
Develop data marts and reporting models to support the Oracle Analytics Server data warehouse.
Work closely with our commercial partner and your colleagues to support the production service, investigate incidents and problems, provide analysis and resolution as part of a resolver team.
Implement best practice for practical data management.
Work within an ITIL aligned service management framework for implementing change.
Work with your colleagues to ensure the underlying data for a business process is clearly documented, understood and communicated.
Establish productive working relationships with our commercial partner, ensuring that data lifecycle, security and quality is at the fore for all projects.
Ensure that all technical design artefacts address requirements and adhere to data management standards and principles.
Support service transition lifecycle activities, including requirements development, solution design, testing and deployment.
Profile data sets to assess the quality, reporting and analysis required.
Work within an agile delivery focused team.
There are opportunities for training and development to further develop you within the role.
To succeed in this role, you should enjoy working as part of a team, be confident with IT, have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills and be an effective communicator. In return this role will provide you with the opportunity to expand your knowledge and develop your skills to a higher level.
Person specification
Essential skills and experience requirements:-
You must have demonstrable skills and experience of developing and supporting a data warehouse Human Resources platform, ideally using the Oracle Analytics Server (or Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)) or equivalent, that provides analytical insights and Management Information reporting.
Some experience and exposure to working with Human Resources Enterprise Resource Planning applications such as Oracle e-Business Suite (EBS), where that is used as a data source for the data warehouse and analytical reporting.
Skilled in conducting dimensional data modelling (data-mart or star schema constructs) for data warehousing on Oracle databases (or an equivalent).
The following essential skills are drawn from the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (formerly DDaT) Capability Framework for a DevOps Engineer
Programming and build (software engineering)
Level: Practitioner
You can:
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
Level: Practitioner
You can:
approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes, and testing with others.
establish design patterns and iterate them.
use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate.
Service support
Level: Working.
You can:
demonstrate a breadth of understanding of service support.
Systems design
Level: Working
You can:
design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.
review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
User focus
Level: Working.
You can:
collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally.
explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user.
champion user research to focus on all users.
prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so.
offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
Desirable skills and experience
Working within Agile Teams.
ITIL experience and/or certification
Practical experience of development and support using Oracle products.
Qualifications
Oracle Database SQL or equivilant experience.
Languages
Proficient in the English language.
DBS AFVS are collaborating with their commercial partners to deliver a major transformation programme aimed at providing a more robust and coherent IT/infrastructure using the latest Oracle Analytical and Data Integration products which will migrate to Cloud based services, offering many benefits, including a better customer experience.
As the successful candidate you’ll be a key member of the DevOps team, who provide business enhancement to a major Management Information reporting service within the MoD. Working collaboratively with our Commercial Partners, you will provide OAS technical support, maintenance, and development activities on a large enterprise data warehouse MI reporting application. You will be part of a wider group responsible for the development of change, which enhances the digital capabilities of services provided by AFVS.
Your responsibilities in this role.
Provide data modelling, business analysis and development skills across the reporting platform.
Develop data marts and reporting models to support the Oracle Analytics Server data warehouse.
Work closely with our commercial partner and your colleagues to support the production service, investigate incidents and problems, provide analysis and resolution as part of a resolver team.
Implement best practice for practical data management.
Work within an ITIL aligned service management framework for implementing change.
Work with your colleagues to ensure the underlying data for a business process is clearly documented, understood and communicated.
Establish productive working relationships with our commercial partner, ensuring that data lifecycle, security and quality is at the fore for all projects.
Ensure that all technical design artefacts address requirements and adhere to data management standards and principles.
Support service transition lifecycle activities, including requirements development, solution design, testing and deployment.
Profile data sets to assess the quality, reporting and analysis required.
Work within an agile delivery focused team.
There are opportunities for training and development to further develop you within the role.
To succeed in this role, you should enjoy working as part of a team, be confident with IT, have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills and be an effective communicator. In return this role will provide you with the opportunity to expand your knowledge and develop your skills to a higher level.
Person specification
Essential skills and experience requirements:-
You must have demonstrable skills and experience of developing and supporting a data warehouse Human Resources platform, ideally using the Oracle Analytics Server (or Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)) or equivalent, that provides analytical insights and Management Information reporting.
Some experience and exposure to working with Human Resources Enterprise Resource Planning applications such as Oracle e-Business Suite (EBS), where that is used as a data source for the data warehouse and analytical reporting.
Skilled in conducting dimensional data modelling (data-mart or star schema constructs) for data warehousing on Oracle databases (or an equivalent).
The following essential skills are drawn from the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (formerly DDaT) Capability Framework for a DevOps Engineer
Programming and build (software engineering)
Level: Practitioner
You can:
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
Level: Practitioner
You can:
approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes, and testing with others.
establish design patterns and iterate them.
use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate.
Service support
Level: Working.
You can:
demonstrate a breadth of understanding of service support.
Systems design
Level: Working
You can:
design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.
review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
User focus
Level: Working.
You can:
collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally.
explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user.
champion user research to focus on all users.
prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so.
offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
Desirable skills and experience
Working within Agile Teams.
ITIL experience and/or certification
Practical experience of development and support using Oracle products.
Qualifications
Oracle Database SQL or equivilant experience.
Languages
Proficient in the English language.