Job Description

Lead Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)
Permanent
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%

About the job

Job summary

Key skills: Terraform, AWS Cloud technology, CI/CD tooling, Microservices and Serverless Architecture 

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 DevOps / Cloud Automation specialist with great leadership and technical skills.   

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, a great annual leave and Bank Holidays package 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

Lead by example in the Platform Team building and maintaining Infrastructure to enable the organisation to deliver rapidly and reliably deploy and innovate for our customers.  Work closely with the development teams, ensuring work is delivered to the standards set out in our best practice guides. The role requires the candidate to lead on various streams of work and provide technical support to Infrastructure engineers across the organisation.

Line management will form part of this role.  Previous management experience is desired but not essential as training can be provided.

Key Skills for Lead Infrastructure Engineers (DevOps)

• Availability and capacity management.
• Development process optimisation.
• Information security. 
• Programming and build (software engineering).
• Prototyping.
• Service support.
• Systems design.
• Systems integration.
• User focus. 

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.

Person specification

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) and Terraform.
• A Practitioner level of skill demonstrates you use these skills daily and have a vast experience and examples of these – Containerisation (Docker), Microservice and Serverless Architecture and Unix/Linux.
• Working knowledge of the following is desired – Ansible and Packer.
• Awareness of the following skills is desirable – Programming Languages (Java and NodeJS) and Python.

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
• Microservice and Serverless Architecture

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.

** 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 for at least 3 of 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.   

Timescales

We plan to sift on 17th February 2025, technical assessment W/C 17th February 2025 and final interviews W/C 3rd March 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: AWS and Terraform experience.

For candidates successful at sift, the next stage will be the technical assessment, assessing Success Profiles: Technical Skills.

For candidates successful at Technical Assessment Stage, the next (and final) stage of the process will be an interview, assessing Success Profiles: Technical Skills and Behaviours detailed in the advert and Strengths.  

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 Christine Jones (christine.jones@datacareers.co.uk).

All applications will be collected by Data Careers (our recruitment partners), which will then be sent to Companies House 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 :Christine Jones
• Email :christine.jones@datacareers.co.uk

Recruitment team

• Email :infopoint@companieshouse.gov.uk