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Junior DevOps Engineer
Are you passionate about collaborative working and problem solving? Do you enjoy using your technical skills to help teams work more effectively, and get software into the hands of users with speed and stability? Are you looking for a new role in an organisation that treats you as an individual and supports you on your professional and career development journey? Then this is the role for you!
We have an exciting opportunity to join our DevOps Enablement team, within the Platform Engineering group, during the IPO digital transformation journey. Working within an established team, this role provides an opportunity to turn innovative ideas into customer value using a range of technologies and delivery platforms.
Working Style
This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office.
The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.
Job Description
Main duties consist of but are not limited to:
Provide supervised assistance to apply and implement DevOps principles, processes, and best practices.
Assist with development and implementation of automated, repeatable, and efficient build and release pipelines.
Act as the DevOps engineer for Releases and troubleshooting of issues, with support from other engineers.
Providing administration, configuration and troubleshooting support for CI & CD pipelines and hosted container applications.
Assist with delivery, integration, administration, and configuration of DevOps tools. This includes tools for source control, build, CI & CD, code reviews, security scans, configuration automation, test automation, artefact management and monitoring.
Assist with reviews and quality checks for newly delivered code and be an advocate for security and performance standards in the organisation.
Assist in implementing and configuring DevOps specific monitoring, alerting, auditing and notification strategies.
Contributing to technical decisions and directions in a collaborative team environment, including estimations, product planning and user stories.
Attending Team and Agile Scrum meetings.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
Awareness of DevOps principles and iterative development principles.
Awareness of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) concepts and orchestration tools.
Awareness of automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines.
Demonstrable problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
Usage experience of source control tools such as Git.
Demonstrable ability to follow and continuously improve processes.
Demonstrable technical experience (development, infrastructure, or cloud) or equivalent degree/training.
How To Apply
Click the \\\'Apply now\\\' button and complete the application form by providing the following:
CV Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV. This will assess your suitability for the role therefore please evidence the essential requirements listed in the person specification above .
For further information on the sift and interview stages of this recruitment campaign, please head to our \\\'Things you need to know\\\' section below.
Please visit our Civil Service Careers page - IPO - Recruitment Support , Civil Service Careers (civil-service-careers.gov.uk)
If you require job-specific information, please contact Dominic Reed.
E-mail:
Telephone: 01633 433189
Behaviours
We\\\'ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Working Together
Developing Self and Others
Communicating and Influencing
Technical Skills
We\\\'ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Technical Essential
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £31,783, Intellectual Property Office contributes £9,207 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access
Access to Microsoft\\\'s ESI training suite
Hybrid working with no core hours
Substantial support for career progression
25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments
You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave
For more information about what\\\'s on offer at the Intellectual Property Office please review our IPO benefit pack attached to the bottom of this advert.
Please Note That Benefits May Be Subject To Change.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Additional Details On Security And Vetting
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check and if successful you must also hold, or be willing to obtain, a higher Security Clearance .
For meaningful checks to be carried out individuals will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, depending on the level of clearance, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. For this role the successful individual will need to have consistently lived in the UK for a minimum 5 years in order to meet the relevant security clearance.
Further information on the vetting process can be found at National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK
If you have questions regarding this or are unsure if you meet the eligibility criteria, please contact
The Assessment Process Will Comprise Of The Following:
Stage 1 - Sift
Experience
An initial sift of applications will be carried out to create a shortlist. This will be based on the evidence provided for the following Success Profile elements:
Your CV will be used to assess your suitability for the role.
Stage 2 - Interviews
If invited to interview Behaviours, Experience and Technical based questioning will be used.
Specific information regarding the Success Profile elements that will be assessed at interview will be contained within the interview invitation.
Interviews for this role will be carried out virtually
Applicants to note: IMPORTANT: CVs sent direct to the IPO will not be accepted.
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