Job Description

Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud Automation)
Companies House

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.

Exceptional employment benefits, (including 28.97% Employer pension contribution, flexible working (no core hours), 30 days leave etc.)

Job summary

Key skills: AWS, IaC, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, CI/CD tooling, Terraform, Github, Containerisation, Ansible, Packer. 

Integration tooling: Artifactory, ElasticSearch, Grafana, Prometheus, Hashicorp Vault, Kafka, Matomo, Prometheus, SonarQube. 

Location: Remote, (anywhere in the UK with need to travel to Head Office in Cardiff 4 times per year)

Are you seeking a step into a Lead role where technical innovation is genuinely embraced, team culture is enjoyable, personal development is achievable, and the work-life balance is perfectly balanced? It’s a rare combination, but it’s all here if you are a Platform / Cloud Automation specialist with great leadership and technical skills.   

Job description

Lead by example in the Platform Team delivering Infrastructure and systems to the highest standards whilst implementing the DevOps culture and principles.  Build and maintain Platform Infrastructure to enable rapid and innovative deployment. Lead on various workstreams and act as SME to other Infrastructure Engineers in the associated teams.  Role includes:

• 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.
• Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.

Person specification

Experience and key skills required:

• Expert level of skill is required for this role – AWS Cloud technology, CI/CD tooling, GitHub, Terraform and Containerisation.
• 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.
• As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, the candidate must perform at the level defined within the DDaT Capability Framework

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
• Containerisation

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.

Find out more about what a great place Companies House is to work

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.

** Essential Employment Requirements**   Only candidates with Full Right to Work in the UK without sponsorship will be considered. Additionally, eligibility for SC level Security Clearance is required.  You will not be considered for this role if you cannot evidence UK residence over the last 5 years.

Please ensure your CV details 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.   

We plan to sift W/C 16 December, technical assessment W/C 16 December and final interviews W/C 6 January 2025. This might need to change – we will keep you informed as you move through the process.   

The sift will be assessing experience and key skills detailed in the person specification, in addition to Technical Skills: Terraform and AWS Cloud Technology.  

The technical assessment will be assessing Success Profiles: Technical Skills.

The interview will be assessing Success Profiles: Technical Skills and Behaviours detailed in the advert and Strengths.  

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

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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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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 .