Senior DevOps Engineer

Job description

Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Grade: SEO
Total remneration: £6,31 - £73,353
Pay Spplement:The base salary for this role is £5,43 - 59,156. This job qalifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annal Pay spplement 4% is inclded in the total remneration above.
Pension: 8.97% (RoS contribtion)
Annal leave: 38 days annal holiday, increasing to 4 days with length of service.
Dration: Permanent
Working Pattern: 35 hors per week. We are a flexible employer and will consider a variety of working patterns on a case-by-case basis. For example, compressed hors, term-time working or part-time working.
Location: Hybrid working model. Contractal base either at Meadowbank Hose, Edinbrgh (EH8 7A), or St Vincent Plaza, Glasgow (G 5LD).
Department: Development Enablement
Directorate: Digital Data and Technology (DDAT)
Role Reports to: Technical Prodct Manager
Closing date: 3rd of October 6 at 9: am
Nmber of vacancies: 1

Registers of Scotland (RoS)Join an award-winning organisation recognised for its technology and innovation. Registers of Scotland is a world-leading pioneer in land and property registration. Or fll-stack teams design, architect, and bild all or registration prodcts in-hose. We work to create digital soltions for the people of Scotland. Yo will get an opportnity to nrtre yor creativity and develop with s throgh access to the latest data, software engineering and prodct delivery techniqes.

This job is for yo if yo want...
-Work with prpose: working for the people of Scotland to set the bar for land and property registration worldwide.
-Flexible and hybrid working: depending on the role and team reqirements, work when and where it's best for yo and yor stakeholders.
-Benefits: enjoy pay progression, pension contribtions of p to 8.97%, p to a year's parental leave, and 38 days annal holiday, increasing to 4 days with length of service.
-Investment in professional development: we invest in all or people so that they have the right skills to be prodctive and confident in their job.
-Diversity and Inclsion: We are an 'Investor in People' and a 'Disability Confident' employer. We are inclsive, stronger together, and committed to ptting or people first.
-Positive work cltre: RoS is an agile, digital organisation sing leading-edge technology.Colleages nderstand their role in achieving or strategy and have the atonomy to deliver.

To learn more abot RoS and what we offer visit or careers pages or watch this short video. Hear from or colleages abot their experience of working within or Digital, Data and Technology teams on or website.

Or Tech stack
Or devs se bnt Linx laptops and Clade Code to prodce applications in Java (Spring Boot), Python, Typescript and React, secred at bild time with SonarQbe and Renovate.
Pipelines sing AWS CDK, Terraform, Gitlab CI and Ansible deliver artefacts throgh Gitlab and Artifactory into native AWS and OpenShift environments, secred at rntime sing IAM, Prisma Clod and Hashicorp Valt.
Or services se EventBridge, Comprehend, SageMaker, storing data with Postgres on AWS RDS and MongoDB.

Italicised text above components largely operated by Development Enablement, the platform engineering team that this role belongs to.

The RoleJoin or innovative tech team as a Senior DevOps Engineer and help shape the experience that or devs have while we deliver services together. We're looking for an empathetic and experienced engineer to develop and spport working systems and services that encapslate RoS policies and standards and make them rewarding to se. Yo'll have the opportnity to work with a talented and collaborative team where yo'll work on interesting projects sing modern technologies and have impact beyond yor individal contribtion. Yo will have line management responsibility for more jnior colleages and contribte to capability bilding across the organisation.

The teamDevelopment Enablement is an enablement team focssed on getting good reslts for abot 13 technical doers across a dozen(ish) prodct delivery teams. For other enablement teams together spport arond 13 staff in RoS.

On a typical day yo will...This role is based on the K Gov's DDAT Senior DevOps Engineer: https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.k/role/development-operations-devops-engineer#senior-dev-ops-engineer:

-Design, implement and improve DevOps tooling and engineering workflows that enable secre, efficient and reliable prodct delivery, meeting the needs of sers, delivery teams and service operators.
-Bild, maintain and continosly improve deployment pipelines and release processes so services are repeatable, scalable, resilient and highly available.
-Provide technical leadership and hands on spport to mltidisciplinary delivery teams, helping to resolve complex engineering isses and improve platform performance, reliability and maintainability.
-Coach, mentor and line manage jnior colleages, spporting their development and contribting to capability bilding across the wider engineering commnity.
-Work collaboratively with prodct, engineering and operational colleages to apply RoS standards, secrity reqirements and good operational practice across the software lifecycle.
-Manage service components to ensre they meet bsiness needs, performance targets and agreed service levels.
-Identify opportnities to improve delivery processes and contribte to implementing practical, sstainable improvements.
-Design and bild soltions with appropriate secrity controls that redce risk and help protect services, systems and data.
-Apply modern engineering standards, patterns and ways of working consistently, and spport others to do the same.
-Design, code, test and docment software or infrastrctre soltions of medim to high complexity, sing agreed standards, tools and engineering practices.
-se prototyping as a collaborative team activity to test ideas, explore options and iterate towards effective technical soltions.
-Identify, investigate and resolve complex live service isses, and provide expert advice to others on service spport approaches and recovery options.
-Work with ser researchers and delivery colleages to nderstand ser needs, represent sers in technical discssions and help shape soltions that improve ser otcomes.

Key Responsibilities
Essential Criteria - Skills and Attribtes for Sccess
Essential & Technical Experience: We will assess yo against the following Experience skills dring the application and assessment process:

Essential Experience-Significant experience in software, platform or DevOps engineering roles
-Experience leading platform or infrastrctre improvement work
-Experience spporting agile delivery in cross fnctional teams
-Experience mentoring others and contribting to engineering practice
-Experience delivering measrable service or platform otcomes

Technical Experience-Secre, scalable clod native and containerised platforms
-CI/CD, atomation and infrastrctre as code
-Observability, resilience and operational spport
-Bilding resable tooling, APIs and self-service capabilities
-Writing maintainable infrastrctre code and atomation scripts

Behaviors
At application stage, yo will be scored against the bolded Behaviors and against the remaining all Behaviors for the assessment:

Leadership
-Yo will provide technical leadership across platform and DevOps engineering, helping shape ways of working, standards, patterns and that spport secre, scalable and reliable delivery.
-Yo will take ownership of complex work, gide others throgh ambigity and spport the team to deliver high-qality otcomes across the software lifecycle.
-Yo will mentor and spport colleages throgh coaching, pairing, code reviews and knowledge sharing, helping bild capability across the wider engineering commnity, inclding direct line management of other colleages.

Managing a Qality Service-Yo will design, bild and maintain resilient platform services that enable delivery teams to release high-qality software safely and efficiently.
-Yo will se atomation, observability, testing and secre engineering practices to improve service reliability, redce operational risk and minimise disrption for sers.
-Yo will drive continos improvement by identifying service isses, learning from incidents and sing evidence and feedback to improve platform performance and developer experience.

Making Effective Decisions
-Yo will make sond technical decisions on platform design, tooling, atomation and release approaches, sing evidence, engineering insight and bsiness need to gide yor jdgement.
-Yo will assess risks, dependencies and trade-offs when resolving problems or planning improvements, balancing pace of delivery with service resilience, secrity and long term sstainability.
-Yo will se data, monitoring insight and team inpt to make informed decisions on priorities, incident response and platform improvements.

Working Together
-Yo will work closely with developers, prodct colleages, secrity specialists and other stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities that meet shared goals and ser needs.
-Yo will bild effective working relationships across mltidisciplinary teams, commnicating clearly and contribting constrctively to technical discssions, planning and problem solving.
-Yo will spport a collaborative team cltre by sharing knowledge, valing different perspectives and contribting to commnities of practice and shared engineering initiatives.

Stage one - Application ProcessTo apply, click on 'Apply now' and complete the online application form. Yo will need to sbmit:

-A CV otlining yor career history and how yo meet the Essential criteria (max 4 pages).

-Yor responses for the application qestions in or application system. 1 will assess yor experience and 1 will assess one of the advertised behaviors. (Max 5 words per response)

-Yo will be invited for complete a technical assessment as part of yor application via Hackerrank, this will take place on the 3rd of October and yo will have 3 calendar days to complete it.

Please note:
-If we receive a high volme of applications, we may complete an initial sift on Technical Experience.
-We reserve the right to invite candidates to participate in a telephone interview prior to being frther assessed.
-Applications that are not accompanied by CVs will not be scored or responses over 5 words will not be considered.
-We wold strongly recommend that yor statement is written in theSTAR format(Sitation, Task, Action & Reslt) and sggest preparing yor answers sing software sch as MS Word or Google Docs, and then ploading the file.
-We strongly advise yo review or policy on responsible se of AI in the application process. RoS may contact yo for a pre-screening call to verify yor responses.
-Applications and appointments are sbject to a strict merit-based assessment process, in line with the Civil Service Recritment Principles.

Stage two - assessmentIf sccessfl at application stage, yo will be invited to an in-person interview which will inclde the following:

-Behavior based interview, we will assess all the advertised behaviors
-Technical case stdy, we will assess the Essential and Techncial Experience

Behavior based interview qestions will be given to candidates 15 mintes before the start of the interviewto allow candidates to prepare in advance.

Gidance on Interview Notes-Yo are welcome to bring notes with yo to the interview
-Notes can be either handwritten or typed
-Notes shold consist of brief prompts, sch as key words or bllet points, to help yo strctre yor responses rather than complete answers
-The interview is a conversation, and we are interested in hearing abot yor experiences in yor own words

Information on Sccess ProfilesFor frther information on sccess profiles, visit orSccess Profiles.

Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if yo progress to interview stage.

Reserve ListIn the event that frther posts are reqired, a reserve list of sccessfl candidates will be kept for p to 1 months.

Nationality and immigration statsIn general, only nationals from the following contries (and associations of contries) are eligible for employment in the Civil Service: the nited Kingdom, the Repblic of Ireland, and the Commonwealth. E nationals (with settled or pre-settled stats), certain EEA nationals, Swiss and Trkish nationals are also eligible for employment. Detailed provisions on determining eligibility on the gronds of nationality and, where relevant, immigration stats can be reviewed here.

Secrity
Sccessfl candidates mst ndergo a Level 1 Disclosre check.
Individals working with government assets mst completebaseline personnel secrity standardchecks.

Diversity and inclsionAs a prod member of the Disability Confident Scheme, we welcome applications from disabled candidates.We'renot as diverse aswe'dlike yet, andwe'reworking on it. We especially welcome applications from nderrepresented grops - people who are disabled, minoritised ethnic grops, and yonger people (16-4 years of age).To learn more,please seeorEDI strategy.

As part of the application process,we wold like to invite yo toplease complete or diversity monitoring form. This information is not shared with recritment panelsbt will allow s to frther improve or processes to increase diversity.

Reasonable adjstmentsWe want everyone to have the chance to perform at their best. If yo need any adjstments (for example, extra time, a hearing loop, materials in large font)inany part of or recritment process, please get in [email protected] will discss adjstments individally with anycandidates who reqest these.Find ot more abot reasonable adjstments onthis page.

DDaT spplementThis post is part of the Digital, Data and Technology profession (DDAT) and attracts a pay spplement. The DDaT allowance is applied to the role and not yo as an individal. Therefore, in ftre, if yo move to a role that does not attract this allowance, the allowance wold be withdrawn. Similarly, if yo move to a different role which attracts a DDaT allowance, the amont of that allowance wold be driven by that role's Job Family alignment to the DDaT Pay Framework.

The allowance is based on market benchmarking data and will be reviewed biennially. Following sch review, the allowance may be increased, decreased or withdrawn where salary benchmarking data indicates this is appropriate

Frther informationFor frther information relating to RoS, inclding:
Additional details on pay & benefits
The Civil Service Code
Complaints process
se of AI in the application/recritment process,

Please view or additional information page online.

If yo have any qestions, please contact [email protected]