Senior DevOps Engineer - Police - Technology CSC - HQ

Overview of the role

Job Title: Senior Dev Ops Engineer - Technology CSC - Counter Terrorism Policing HQ

Salary: The starting salary is £63,409, which includes allowances totalling £3,009. The salary is broken down as £60,400 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £65,886. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: Birmingham

Counter Terrorism Policing relies on a wide range of technologies, and in this vital role you’ll support the development of our cloud platform for the national systems that underpin our operations. Joining a new team of dedicated engineers, this is a great opportunity to support project delivery and technical development to help us build and support a world-class cloud services platform.

• Transforming technical requirements into effective technical solutions to enable product delivery, and ensuring deployment strategies are repeatable and scalable.
• Using your technical knowledge as you support delivery teams and end users.
• Testing and deploying product updates, resolving issues, and implementing integrations.
• Create and improve automations and monitoring, and acting as the technical product owner for some parts of our cloud infrastructure.
• Providing project oversight to ensure standards are met, and working with your colleagues to ensure software development follows established processes.
• Ensuring the personal and team workload is effectively managed, prioritised and issues are escalated if necessary.
• Ensuring adherence to required polices, standards, controls and best practice.
• Creating, maintaining and reviewing technical documentation.
• Proactively monitoring cloud environments to help prevent and resolve any issues.
• Driving continuous improvement across cloud services.
• Assisting with the mentoring of junior colleagues and the development of the team.

You should possess a background in modern software engineering or platform infrastructure support, and have a proven track record of creating and maintaining infrastructure as code platforms, cloud environments or similar. Additional knowledge and skills should include:

• The ability to manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
• The skills to ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures, identify capacity issues, stipulate and instigate required changes, and initiate remedial action.
• Good knowledge of process optimisation opportunities and the implementation of proposed solutions.
• An understanding of design solutions and services with security controls embedded, engineered with the mitigation of security threats as a core feature.
• The skills to use agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts, and approach prototyping as a team activity.
• A broad understanding of service support and how to undertake integration testing activities.
• The ability to select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively.
• A readiness to collaborate with user researchers and offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
• A strong understanding of Tier 1 cloud service providers such as AWS and Azure.
• The ability to communicate issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience of supporting services through live operation.
• Good experience of designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and supporting a modern digital service platform in production environments.
• The skills to produce designs that are scalable, resilient, efficient and secure.
• The ability to apply industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and application components.

• Availability and capacity management
• Manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
• Ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures.
• Identify capacity issues, and stipulate and instigate the required changes.
• Initiate remedial action.

• Identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed…