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Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud Automation)
Companies House
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Reference number
379552
Salary
£41,571 - £56,784
Base salary is £41,571 - £45,784 with an additional DDaT allowance of £4,350 - £11,000 available. The final salary and allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Job grade
Senior Executive Officer
DDaT Lead
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
CH - Digital Services
Type of role
Digital
Information Technology
Other
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Homeworking, Part-time, Compressed hours
Number of jobs available
3
Contents
Location
Remote working (anywhere in the UK)
About the job
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity in our Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) team. We are looking for an enthusiastic Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud Automation) with great leadership and technical skills and a drive to improve. This role is a unique opportunity as you will be part of a team delivering Platform Infrastructure and systems to the highest standards and implementing the DevOps culture and principles across the business.
The nature of this post may occasionally require you to do overtime during the week and at weekends. There may also be a requirement to take part in an on-call rota providing cover to ensure the services always remain operational.
Most of our Digital workforce are currently working from home or in a hybrid approach and this will also apply to this role. The office base for this role will be our Cardiff Head Office as this is where most of the team are based. As decisions are made regarding hybrid working, successful candidates will be expected to attend the office on occasion. For those candidates who live further afield and not within a commutable distance, we will consider remote working. This can be discussed in more detail with the line manager.
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%.
Find out more about what a great place Companies House is to work
Job description
The position will be focussed on building and maintaining Platform Infrastructure to enable the organisation to deliver rapidly and reliably deploy and innovate for our customers. A Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud Automation) will keep our best practice guides updated and ensure these are adhered to across the whole organisation. The role requires the candidate to lead on various streams of work and provide technical support to Infrastructure engineers across the organisation.
You may be required to undertake line management responsibilities in this position, this will be discussed with the successful candidate. Previous management experience is desired but not essential as training can be provided.
Key Skills for Lead Infrastructure Engineers (Cloud Automation)
- Coding and scripting. You can interact with and read code.
- IT infrastructure. You can lead teams and departments in the design, implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services.
- Information security. You can understand information security. Design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats as a core feature
- Modern standards approach. You can demonstrate a strong understanding of the most appropriate modern standards and practices, and how they are applied. Coach and guide others in these standards.
- Ownership and initiative. You can take accountability for issues that occur and be proactive in searching for potential problems. Achieve excellent user outcomes.
- Problem management. You can initiate and monitor actions to investigate patterns and trends to resolve problems. Effectively consult specialists where required. Determine the appropriate remedy and assist with its implementation. Determine preventative measures.
- Service focus. You can take inputs and establish coherent frameworks that work.
- Systems design. You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively. Review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
- Systems integration. You can establish standards and procedures across a service product life cycle, including the development product life cycle, and can ensure that practitioners adhere to these. Manage resources to ensure that the systems integration function works effectively
- Technical understanding. You can anticipate and advise on future technology changes that present opportunities for the product or programme.
- Testing. You can manage the planning of system and acceptance tests, co-ordinating both functional and non-functional specifications. Provide authoritative advice and guidance on test planning. Identify process improvements and contribute to the definition of best practice
- Troubleshooting and problem resolution. You can use lateral thinking to break a problem down into its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes. Troubleshoot and identify problems across different technology capabilities including computing, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, commercial-off-the-shelf software (COTS) and open source software.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for delivering the infrastructure and tooling to support a continuous delivery approach within Companies House. You will be user and service focused ensuring that value is delivered through improvement and automation of platform services. Working in a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers, a Lead Infrastructure Engineer builds, administers, supports, and maintains solutions as directed and according to departmental policy. Most of the time will be spent working with the delivery teams on carrying out the infrastructure work on development projects. This will include answering any queries regarding environment, configuration, and CI/CD processes.
At this role level, you will:
- Ensure services are integrated, delivered, and operated as required.
- Work with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations.
- Design and develop infrastructure as code, source code repositories and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines to execute change on Cloud environments.
- Coordinate opportunities for integration between technologies to meet our organisational milestones using Cloud-based tooling to create reports and management information.
- Lead and support colleagues in non-functional requirements, ensuring availability, security, capacity, and performance for the platform and/or service.
- Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery.
- Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.
- Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems.
- Ensuring best practice guides are maintained and adhered to.
Person specification
We are looking for the following experience, which will be assessed at sift and at interview.
Experience and key skills required:
- Expert level of skill is required for this role – AWS Cloud technology, CI/CD tooling (such as Concourse, Jenkins etc), GitHub (source control and versioning), Terraform and Containerisation (Docker).
- A Practitioner level of skill demonstrates you use these skills daily and have a vast experience and examples of these – Ansible, Unix/Linux and Python.
- Working knowledge of the following is desired – Packer, Microservice and Serverless Architecture.
- Awareness of the following skills is desirable – Programming Languages (Java and NodeJS).
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Leadership
- Making Effective Decisions
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Terraform
- AWS Cloud technology
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tooling
- Containerisation (Docker)
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £41,571, Companies House contributes £12,043 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we’re committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.
Head to Our benefits - Working for us - Recruitment (companieshouse.gov.uk) to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House.
We celebrate diversity...
As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring we’re representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfil our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We also welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
We are proud to be a disability confident leader. Our recruitment process is fully inclusive and we can make adjustments as needed through our process. These could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments and receiving interview questions in advance, to name a few. We will be happy to discuss any person-centred adjustments, please contact us by emailing recruitmentCH@companieshouse.gov.uk
Where will you be working?
You will be aligned to our Cardiff Office, where we are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work. Our approach to hybrid working provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. The degree of choice you have will depend on business need, your role and your day-to-day work activities and will be discussed at offer stage. For those candidates who live further afield and not within a commutable distance, we will consider remote working. This can be discussed in more detail with the line manager.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.
In your application form we’d like you to:
- Tell us about your employment history, including key responsibilities and achievements, paying particular attention to the experience and key skills listed in the person specification. Please provide context to evidence your level of expertise and working knowledge of each technology and programme. It's important to demonstrate your level of use and skill - we need this to be able to effectively sift your application.
What will the process look like?
- Please note, we are working with Data Careers recruitment agency for this recruitment process. Your application will be directed to Data Careers in the first instance.
- We will sift applications and then invite successful candidates from the sift stage to complete a technical assessment. Candidates successful at technical assessment stage will be invited to attend a virtual interview.
- At sift candidates will be assessed against experience listed in the advert, referencing any transferable skills using the job description for reference.
- At technical assessment stage candidates will be assessed against the Technical Skills listed in the advert. You'll be sent an activity (via email) and asked to return it by a specified deadline.
- Candidates successful at technical assessment stage will progress to interview stage.
- At interview candidates will be assessed against the Behaviours and Technical Skills listed in the advert and Strengths. We will use Success Profiles Behaviours, Technical Skills and Strengths.
- Interviews will be via Microsoft Teams.
Companies House uses a blended interview technique, allowing us to find out more about you. We use the Success Profile framework and at interview we will use Success Profiles assessing the Behaviours and Technical Skills listed in the advert and Strengths.
We’re committed to being diverse and inclusive, so please make your application anonymous by removing all identifying personal information (such as names and dates) from your employment history and personal statement.
We understand that you might use AI and other resources for your application; however, please ensure all information you provide is factually accurate, truthful, and original and doesn’t include ideas or work that isn’t your own. This is so that your application is authentically and credibly your own.
Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of recruitment based on fair and open competition with decisions made on the basis of merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.
Successful candidates must pass a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check before they can be appointed.
BPSS is an entry level security check. It uses the Police National Computer (PNC) to make sure a candidate has no convictions. The check returns evidence of any current criminal record and un-spent convictions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements for Security Check (SC) before they can be appointed.
To gain SC clearance you will normally need to have been a UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and will need to successfully complete all stages of the vetting process. More information can be found at National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Nationality statement
Candidates will be subject to UK immigration requirements as well as Civil Service nationality rules. If you're applying for a role requiring security clearance, please be aware that foreign or dual nationality is not an automatic bar. However certain posts may have restrictions which could affect those who do not have sole British nationality or who have personal connections with certain countries outside the UK.
As part of our recruitment process, it is essential for all candidates to independently verify their eligibility to work in the UK before applying. This includes a thorough check of your right to work to ensure compliance with UK employment laws, being mindful of the recent changes to going rates detailed on GOV.UK. Please ensure you have the necessary documentation and permissions in place. Our team is dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply. However, it is the candidate's responsibility to ensure they meet the UK's legal requirements to work.
Please note, we are working with Data Careers for this recruitment process.
To apply for this role, please click here to access the Data Careers portal where you will be asked to submit your CV.
If you have any questions regarding the campaign then please contact Chris Jones (christine.jones@datacareers.co.uk).
All applications will be collected by Data Careers (our recruitment partners), which will then be sent to CH for internal sift.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name :Katie Jones
- Email :kjones6@companieshouse.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email :recruitmentch@companieshouse.gov.uk
Further information
We welcome applications in Welsh / Rydym yn croesawi ceisiadau yn y Gymraeg. Selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles, our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of appointment on the basis of merit by fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact infopoint@companieshouse.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission .
info@csc.gov.uk
Civil Service Commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road SW1A 2HQ
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