Offre d'emploi Lead DevOps Engineer (WebOps - Cloud Support & Automation) - Companies House - SEO

The successful candidate will have experience of:

• Incident/Problem resolution and root cause analysis

• Problem resolution via coding and scripting

• Adhoc reporting and data management.

• Proven experience within an IT environment (preferably in an Ops environment), and of leading a technical team

• System software build and release - Automation of manual processes, including code deployment and environment provisioning.

• Setting up performance monitoring / alerting / tuning for web-based services and API’s.

• Coaching and supporting colleagues in non-functional requirements, ensuring availability, security, capacity, and performance for the services.

• Engaging in continuous improvement activities by working collaboratively within and outside of the team.

• Excellent customer focus, communication, and networking skills

• Mentoring and leading less experienced members of the team

They will also have demonstrable technical experience of:

• Unix/Linux in a support or development environment

• DevOps and associated technologies – Continuous Delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience

• Supporting infrastructure in the cloud

• Database querying

• Any type of coding

• AWS, Java, Terraform, Concourse, Ansible, Docker, JSON, SQL, GIT, Tibco iProcess, Doc1 (experience in similar technologies will be considered)

Remote working (anywhere in the UK)

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Come and join a passionate and collaborative team driving digital transformation at Companies House!

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you'll be at the heart of our mission to deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing services that support millions of users.

You will join a large, diverse team of engineers with a broad range of skills and domain knowledge. We take pride in our team-first culture and our track record—maintaining 99.5% service availability over the past five years.

This is your chance to lead with impact, shape our DevOps strategy, and help us build the future of digital services. If you're ready to grow your career while making a real difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work.  We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.   

Please note:

• Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign.

• Security Clearance is an essential requirement. You must have been in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to meet the minimum residency requirement. No adjustments or exceptions can be made to this criterion. Please see 'Things you need to know' section below for more information.

• You will participate in the on-call rota providing cover 24/7/365 as an essential element of this role.

• Remote contracts will only be offered to successful candidates who are not a commutable distance to our Cardiff, Belfast or Edinburgh offices. See further details under ‘’Where will you be working?’ section.