Job Vacancy Lead DevOps Engineer - Intellectual Property Office - G7

Essential 

• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and experience of working in a DevOps or iterative development culture.

• Excellent knowledge and proven experience implementing continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) processes and tools, including pipeline design and administration.

• Experience with automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines.

• Demonstrable experience in service support including troubleshooting and incident resolution.

• Experience in identification and tracking of risks and issues.

• Excellent communication skills and experience of knowledge sharing and mentoring junior members of the team.

• Experience in leading DevOps expertise and decision making across the whole software delivery lifecycle

• Experience in identifying and selecting appropriate DevOps technical solutions based on user needs and business requirements

Technical Essential

• Substantial experience in administration and configuration of Azure DevOps Pipelines (preferred), GitHub Actions or other CI/CD orchestration tools.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform

• Experience of deploying workloads to, and consuming cloud platform resources (Microsoft Azure preferred).

• Substantial experience supporting the build and deployment of, or coding in one or more of the following or equivalent:

  • Python

  • .Net Core / C#

  • NextJs / Node frontend

• Substantial experience in software development process and tools, and development or scripting experience in one or more of the following:

  • Python / Bash / PowerShell

• Experience in containerisation technologies and platforms such as Docker, AKS or Azure container services such as Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps or Azure Container Registry or equivalent.

• Experience in managing and supporting distributed source code repositories including Git.

Newport, NP10 8QQ

Lead DevOps Engineer (DevOps Specialist Lead)

Are you passionate about collaborative working and problem solving? Do you enjoy using your technical skills to help teams work more effectively, and get software into the hands of users with speed and stability? Are you looking for a new role in an organisation that treats you as an individual and supports you on your professional and career development journey? Then this is the role for you!

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead DevOps Engineer, within the Platform Engineering group, during the IPO digital transformation journey. Working within an established team, this role provides an opportunity to turn innovative ideas into customer value using a range of technologies and delivery platforms.

Key Tech: Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines CICD, Azure, Terraform, scripting, deploying to Azure, and a wide variety of workloads we deploy within Azure such as Azure ML, Elastic and much more

Working Style

This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office.

The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.