Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Platform/DevOps) - Companies House - SEO
Senior DevOps/Platform engineer at Companies House (the UK government's company register), building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines, and supporting delivery teams while embedding DevOps practices across the organisation. Core stack: Terraform, Concourse CI/CD, AWS, Git. Remote within the UK; security clearance required.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Ancoats, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Expert knowledge of Terraform
- Expert knowledge of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tooling and principles (e.g., Concourse)
- Expert knowledge of Cloud Technology Principles (preferably AWS)
- Expert knowledge of Git (source control and versioning)
- Security Clearance eligibility — must have been in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years
- Must perform at the level defined within the DDAT Capability Framework
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of Ansible
- Working knowledge of Packer
- Working knowledge of containerisation (Docker)
- Working knowledge of Unix/Linux
Full description
Location: Remote working (anywhere in the UK)
About The Job
Job summary: We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps/Platform) with great leadership and technical skills and a drive to improve. This role is a unique opportunity as you will be part of a team delivering Platform infrastructure and systems to the highest standards and implementing the DevOps culture and principles across the business.
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Why choose Companies House
At Companies House we take a proactive approach to wellbeing by promoting a welcoming culture, healthy work life balance and supporting colleagues to be their best in work because we know people are the key to our success.
Our Benefits Include
- Flexible working with no core hours (between 6am and 8pm)
- 30 days annual leave + Bank Holidays
- Enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme, with an average employer contribution of 28%
Please Note
- Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign
- Security Clearance is an essential requirement for this campaign. You'll need to have been in the UK for at least 3 out of the last 5 years to be eligible to apply for SC.
- The team for this role is based in our Cardiff office, and a hybrid employment contract will be provided as the standard offering. However, remote contracts may be considered as an exception whereby commuting to the office location of your team is not reasonably practicable.
- The nature of this post may occasionally require you to do overtime during the week and at weekends.
Job Description
The position will be focussed on building and maintaining Infrastructure to enable the organisation to deliver rapidly and reliably deploy and innovate for our customers. A Senior Infrastructure Engineer will work with our 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.
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, the candidate must perform at the level defined within the DDAT Capability Framework
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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer builds, administers, supports, and maintains solutions as directed and according to departmental policy.