Senior DevOps Engineer - Insolvency Service - SEO

Onyx-Conseil; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy in the UK is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance their in-house digital services team. In this role, you will transform technical requirements into effective delivery processes, ensure applications are deployed securely and effectively, and provide coaching to junior colleagues. This position involves critical responsibilities in maintaining production environments and contributing to the overall improvement of the application technology stack. Candidates should have a strong background in DevOps practices and problem solving.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a DevOps or similar engineering role.
• Deep technical knowledge of deployment and infrastructure processes.
• Ability to coach and mentor junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Keep applications running in production and non-production environments.
• Ensure applications are deployed securely and on time.
• Define standards for successful DevOps operation.
• Monitor and resolve issues in production environments.
• Contribute to priority incident bridge calls and root cause analyses.
• Provide estimates for upcoming DevOps activities.

Skills

DevOps methodologies

Problem solving

Security standards

Coaching and mentoring

Job description

Digital Services is an in‑house team, which has recently moved from using a 3rd party DevOps function to bringing it in‑house. We are also consolidating our technology stack and moving away from legacy services. This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape our digital services and the way we work for a sustainable, user‑centric future. We would love to for you to be part of that team.

Digital services is part of Change and Technology Services (CTS) who support and improve applications and systems across the agencies IT landscape. CTS provide key services including digital services, cyber security and information governance, service architecture and governance and digital programme delivery.

DevOps look after the deployment and infrastructure of the applications and products we deliver. They keep the lights on and are first to identify and resolve any issues with the live services. They work closely with developers and QAT to ensure the products meet the demands of the users, whilst also ensuring it meets cyber‑security demands.

As a senior DevOps engineer you will deliver and integrate software to form a complete DevOps toolchain. They are responsible for planning and designing large groups of stories.

At this role level you will:

• transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery
• provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
• 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

Responsibilities

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be responsible:

• for keeping the applications running in production and non‑production environments
• for ensuring that applications are deployed in a timely and secure manner
• for defining standards for the successful operation of a DevOps function within the Insolvency Service
• for monitoring and resolving issues in Production environments
• for contributing to priority incident bridge calls and root cause analysis
• for providing estimates to upcoming DevOps activities that are related to the delivery roadmap
• for providing updates and comments to in‑progress work
• for working with and providing support to development and operations teams
• for escalating tickets to the Scrum Master/Delivery Manager that are unable to be completed and are now blocked
• for updating and building deployment pipelines in line with the build and deployment model
• for raising changes to go through and attending CAB to represent those changes
• for contributing to the overall improvement of the application technology stack
• for ensuring that documentation conforms to application documentation standards and is up‑to‑date and reflective of any changes