Office Jobs Bradford Bradford District, UK – Associate DevOps

Overview

Position Title: Associate DevOps

Company: UK Home Office

Location: Bradford Bradford District, United Kingdom

Job Description:

The Associate DevOps is responsible for supporting our platforms. Your role is to resolve tickets relating to the maintenance of the platforms, often needing to make updates to resolve the issues reported.
You will work under the guidance of your technical peers, developing your understanding of our platforms, pipelines and automation approaches.

Responsibilities:

• Improving our skills and approaches as well as keeping up to speed with the technology landscape.
• Writing simple automation components (scripts/playbooks) for our platforms.
• Learning more advanced automation and cloud skills to advance as an engineer.
• Signposting users to appropriate people and technical resources.
• Providing helpdesk support to resolve platform operational issues and support system and service uptime.
• Working and assessing to appropriate standards: for instance, accessibility, the GDS service standard and our own community practices.
• Progressing the DDaT Profession, understanding all roles and helping to build our community.
• Helping execute test and deployment activities with teams.

Requirements:

• Operations using virtual machines, infrastructure as code and associated patterns.
• Working DevOps experience of a year to 18 months
• Defining and implementing VPCs, cloud networks, security & access groups, Security keys & key management systems and automated deployment (as well as CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or Drone).
• Recognised skills through your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner qualification.
• Using Docker and Kubernetes commands.
• Use and knowledge of Linux and Windows plus basic scripting using Python, Bash and Powershell.
• The configuration and use of cloud services to achieve high availability, fault tolerance, scalability & elasticity.