Lead WebOps Engineer (WebOps/DevOps) - Companies H

Job Specifications

Job Summary

Join our Digital and Technology directorate as a Lead Engineer at Companies House! We're looking for a dynamic leader with strong technical skills to support and enhance our systems. You'll focus on service availability, problem-solving, and root cause analysis, working within a collaborative team environment.

Job Description

As part of our team, you'll help maintain our impressive 99.5% availability target, working on system upgrades, automation, and service improvements. Our IT estate has recently migrated to AWS, and we're undergoing a major transformation to align with new legislative powers.

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Responsibilities

Lead technical initiatives and contribute to long-term operational strategy.
Coach and mentor IT professionals.
Network with stakeholders to drive improvements.
Enhance system infrastructure, tooling, and performance monitoring.
Participate in the on-call rota to ensure 24/7 service availability.

Requirements

Experience:

Incident/problem resolution and root cause analysis.
Coding and scripting for problem resolution.
IT environment experience, preferably in Ops.
Leading technical teams.
Automation of manual processes.
Performance monitoring for web services and APIs.
Coaching colleagues on non-functional requirements.
Continuous improvement activities.

Technical Skills:

Unix/Linux support or development.
DevOps technologies.
Continuous Delivery methods.
Cloud infrastructure support.
Database querying.
Coding in AWS, Java, Terraform, Concourse, Ansible, Docker, JSON, SQL, GIT, Tibco iProcess, Doc1.

Behaviours:

Working Together
Managing a Quality Service
Delivering at Pace
Changing and Improving
Developing Self and Others

Benefits

Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture with a fantastic benefits package, including:

Flexible working with no core hours
30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays, and 1 privilege day
Civil Service Pension scheme with a 28% contribution rate

Join us and help drive our digital services and culture forward!

This advert closes 20th May 2025.

About the Company

We're an executive agency of the UK Department for Business and Trade. We drive confidence in the economy by creating a transparent and accountable business environment. Use of our data informs business and consumer decisions, supports growth and helps disrupt economic crime. Know more