Senior DevOps Engineer (Infected Blood Compensation Authority)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 16 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £55,403 i £64,040 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Offers above the band minimum are subject to our assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview. Salaries over the band minimum will be paid as a non-pensionable allowance. |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 27 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 416897/1 |
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Are you driven and ready for an exciting opportunity which will make a real impact? This is a challenging and fulfilling role that requires pace, impact, sensitivity, and compassion.
The multidisciplinary teams within IBCA’s Digital Service Directorate are organised around delivering our mission and priorities:
- To create a user-centred, empathetic end-to-end service at the heart of IBCA;
- To provide the means of paying compensation to those eligible;
- To iterate our service through starting small and scaling fast, through a test and learn approach.
A rare opportunity to apply cutting-edge platform engineering across the breadth of a public service making a real difference. Joining IBCA early in the service lifecycle allows for the Senior DevOps Engineer to influence tech decisions, build capability, and implement best in class engineering standards.
Opportunities to move to the new Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA). At the moment all IBCA roles are hosted by Cabinet Office within the Civil Service. However, once IBCA becomes operational, it is anticipated that most of these roles will transfer to IBCA, which is a new Arms Length Body (ALB) separate from the Cabinet Office. Roles that transfer to IBCA from Cabinet Office will maintain the same or substantially the same terms and conditions of employment that are overall no less favourable. It is anticipated that employees who move from Cabinet Office to IBCA will be able to continue to participate in the Civil Service Pension arrangements with no break in their pensionable service. Roles commencing after IBCA has become operational will be with IBCA itself on similar terms and conditions. All successful candidates will receive full details of the terms and conditions of employment for their role with their formal job offer.
Please note that the mission of IBCA means that it is likely to be operational for a period of approximately 5 to 7 years. When IBCA’s work begins to wind down, IBCA employees will receive support and practical guidance to find a new role, whether in the Civil Service, another Arms Length Body (ALB), or an external employer.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be an experienced voice in a team, leading and coaching colleagues to design and implement resilient, high-performance cloud-native systems, and the toolchains that support their development.
You will be responsible for the design and implementation of all build, deployment, and monitoring processes and tools. You will work closely with our product teams to ensure they are able to release changes in a timely, consistent, and safe manner, and assist in incident response activities.
You will need to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced environment with other technical and non-technical stakeholders, and be proficient at diagnosing and communicating faults in production systems in order to maintain high-availability and performance visibility across all products.
We are looking for someone who can take a leading part on all elements of the software development lifecycle, from assisting and advising other engineers in their build processes, to maintaining complex multi-service hosting infrastructure. By contributing to and championing engineering standards and best practices, you will ensure quality outcomes and reduce technical debt.
You will be adept at software engineering disciplines and proficient in a range of platforms (docker, Kubernetes, AWS), languages (Python, shell), techniques (e.g. GitOps, blue/green releases), and tools (terraform, helm, GtHub Actions).
Responsibilities
- Work with teams to curate and translate their non-functional requirements into metrics that can be measured and monitored to meet KPIs;
- Design and implement continuous build and deployment pipelines to help deliver incremental releases frequently and robustly;
- Design and implement cloud-native infrastructure to support highly-available services;
- Work with engineers and architects to advise on infrastructure and pipeline design;
- Ensuring the platform is secure by design;
- Contribute to the identification of tooling and solutions to aid constant improvements, ensuring we build the right product in the right way;
- Contribute to the development of engineering standards and best practices, and help teams to adopt ways of working;
- Proactively share knowledge, solutions and support our internal communities along with mentoring, coaching, and supporting your peers;
- Have line management responsibility for other DevOps Engineers.
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