Lead Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)

Companies House; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a DevOps / Cloud Automation specialist to lead a dynamic team in Cardiff. This role offers a unique opportunity to embrace technical innovation while fostering a supportive and enjoyable team culture. You will be at the forefront of delivering infrastructure that enhances service delivery and automation, ensuring a user-focused approach. With a strong emphasis on personal development and work-life balance, this position promises not only professional growth but also a fulfilling work environment. Join a forward-thinking organization that values its employees and offers a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible working arrangements and generous annual leave.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

30 Days Annual Leave

8 Bank Holidays

1 Privilege Day

Civil Service Pension Scheme

Qualifications

• Expert in AWS Cloud technology and CI/CD tooling is essential.
• Experience with microservices and serverless architecture is required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver infrastructure and tooling for continuous delivery.
• Lead the Platform Team in building and maintaining infrastructure.

Skills

AWS Cloud technology

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Microservices

Serverless Architecture

Containerisation (Docker)

Unix/Linux

Programming Languages (Java, NodeJS, Python)

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Tools

GitHub

Ansible

Packer

Job description

Talent Acquisition Delivery Manager at Data Careers

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%.

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 integration.

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

To be eligible for this role you also need to meet our Nationality requirements which are outlined below and also successful candidates must meet the security requirements for Security Clearance (SC) before they can be appointed. To gain (SC) you will need to have been a UK resident for a minimum of 3 years out of the last 5 years.

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

Next Steps:

Join us at Companies House and experience the difference of working within a culture that values you, not only as an employee, but as an integral part of our Companies House team.

We offer an excellent benefits package that includes:

• Flexible working arrangements that empower you to strike a perfect balance between your professional and personal life.
• 30 Days Annual Leave and 8 Bank Holidays and 1 Privilege Day.
• Enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Government Administration