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Do you thrive on keeping critical platforms running smoothly?
Are you passionate about cloud platform operations, security, and automation?
Do you have experience in addressing risks, incidents and service quality across technical teams?
Do you want to play a key role in delivering reliable, secure, and efficient platforms that provide services for millions of citizens?
We are seeking experienced engineers to work within a product team, analysing, designing, developing, automating and delivering either our Core Cloud Platforms or Cloud Shared Services in HMRC's Cloud Environment. You will naturally be a self-starter, adept at working individually or as part of a small team, able to convey technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders.
Within HMRC’s Chief Digital & Information Group (CDIO), specifically in the Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) team we are redefining our offerings and growing the team of outstanding people to improve the Cloud Centre of Excellence. We are already a diverse team of 90+ technologists, creating a dynamic and inclusive working environment whose skills cover architecture, platform development, service design, platform operations and governance.
Travel to Telford is required as part of this role, and 60% of your working time will need to be office based.
Job description
The Role
As a Senior DevOps (Platform Engineer) within HMRC’s Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS), you will be pivotal in delivering robust cloud platform services. Working in a product-centric development environment, you will bring extensive DevOps skills and Site Reliability Engineering awareness to build services and bring them into full production operation.
As an experienced DevOps/platform engineer, you will act as a technical specialist and mentor to developers, adopting an agile approach to delivery where new services or improvements are delivered collaboratively and incrementally to realise business value at the earliest opportunity. Your development will be through a broad range of CI/CD technologies including GitLab, Ansible, Artifactory, and Jira.
N.B. This role profile acts as a single advert for multiple types of DevOps/Platform Engineers across our Cloud Product Teams, therefore some of the Essential Criteria will be expressed in ‘and/or’ terms.
