DevOps Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; Crawley; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-related bonus

28 days annual leave (plus bank/option

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

Life cover

Employee Assistance Program

Discount shopping schemes

Gym membership discounts

Volunteering paid for

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in Crawley, United Kingdom seeks a Cyber Security & Digital Identity specialist to support the DCC infrastructure, ensuring safety and security in production environments.

You will define, develop, and automate deployment processes, provision resources, and uphold operational best practices while collaborating with software and IS security teams. A security clearance is required or pursued as part of deployment.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering or closely related technical field.
• Agile certification required.
• Chartered status preferred for professional recognition.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the technical solution for infrastructure including system architecture.
• Develop automated deployment scripts and tooling for production deployment.
• Ensure operational best practices: monitoring, backups, log management, and archiving.

Skills

System architecture

Automation tooling

Security best practices

DevOps coordination

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Agile certification

Chartered engineer status preferred

Tools

Scripting (Shell/Python)

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Logging & monitoring

Job description

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Cyber Security & Digital Identity (CDI)

From secure software to biometrics and encryption, CDI technologies and services enable businesses and governments to authenticate identities and protect data, so they stay safe and enable services in personal devices, connected objects, the cloud and in between.

Summary of role:

Responsible for supporting the DCC infrastructure and ensuring it is safe and secure.

Role and responsibilities – what success looks like:

Maintain the technical solution for infrastructure:

• System architecture
• Define and develop the means so that products are correctly deployed in production, respecting established rules.
• Support delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute, network & storage) in a simple and efficient manner.

Secure the DCC infrastructure:

• Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions
• Ensures that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented.
• Ensure the Squad is informed and aware of operational constraints, and if required trains the team on those topics.
• Ensuring Security best practises are being upheld
• Educate and communicate with the wider the company UK community

Principle Relationships:

• DCC Team
• Software Engineering Director
• UK Engineering Management Team
• CBU Heads of Software & Systems Engineering
• IS Security / IS Architects

Key responsibilities & Accountabilities:

Outputs:

• Automated deployment scripts for the product
• Proper operational best practices implemented for PaaS
• Document design and resources

Success criteria:

• Product is able to release into production in a timely manor
• Ensuring maximum up time
• Operational best practices
• Deployment automation best practice

Best practices:

• Monitoring the usage and alerts to anticipate necessary changes
• Ensure platform cannot fail
• Investigate alternative delivery process
• Ensure a resilience process for Dev Ops tasks

Education and Qualifications:

• Qualified to degree level or equivalent in an engineering discipline or closely related technical field.
• The successful candidate will have a proven track record of having demonstrated the key competences listed elsewhere on this document.
• Membership or fellowship of a professional engineering body preferably with chartered status.
• Agile certification.

Behaviours and Values:

• Demonstrates behaviours which meet the the company Leadership Model requirements and demonstrates a professional, committed approach to all tasks undertaken.
• Displays passion, energy, drive, agility and resilience in achieving work-related goals under difficult circumstances.
• Enjoys or thrives on developing and performing through teamwork.
• Self-Motivated/Flexible with a constructive 'can do' attitude
• A good problem solver showing initiative and improvisation.
• Able to question / challenge established processes and offer innovative alternatives.
• Demonstrates attention to detail, particularly in investigating problems, and a pride in producing accurate work.
• Must be able to work in a multi-disciplined team environment with Suppliers, the company employees and Customer present.

Benefits:

• Performance-related bonus
• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00
• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
• 24 hours volunteering paid for
• Private healthcare
• Pension scheme
• Life cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discounts

Security Clearance Requirement:

Due to the nature of the work that we do at the company, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires Security Clearance (SC). It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels.

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