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SalaryDevOps Engineer (Site Reliability Engineer)
Grade L - £40,221 to £44,428
Location: Hybrid working with the expectation to visit County Hall as required
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 11/02/2024
Are you an experienced DevOps Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer looking to further your career? Or, are you an Infrastructure Administrator looking to make a move into DevOps?
Are you looking for an innovative organisation who promotes work life balance?
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team in creating new products for our newly formed council.
Our team
Here at North Yorkshire Council our Technology Department plays a vital role in improving, developing and supporting services across the whole Council for the benefit of our customers and staff.
As part of our team, you will be heavily involved with creating products and fulfilling needs within the council such as our corporate website, finance integrations and transformational work to help our new council work closely together across the county.
What our people say about us
“Building products as part of such a dedicated customer focused team enables us to really make a difference. Positively impacting people’s lives now, as well as ensuring we have the capabilities to do so into the future”
Dan, Lead Developer
“Working as part of the development team has given me the opportunity to learn many new skills and work with a great set of people. Making a direct contribution to improving the lives of North Yorkshire citizens has been a really rewarding experience.”
Sonya, Lead Developer
The role
As a DevOps Engineer you will work closely with other teams in the service (in particular, the infrastructure teams) to ensure software products are configured and deployed on time, within budget, and to the agreed quality.
The core focus of this job is to drive the delivery of software products to the organisation by designing and building automations and configurations that meet required specifications and standards. Ensure deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and reliable.
DevOps is way of working that isn’t just isolated to a single role, and as part of this role you will help develop and mature this practice by guiding and advising members of the Development and Infrastructure teams in DevOps practices to ensure close collaboration in development projects.
You will work closely with the Development Team Manager and the Digital Products and Services Team, customers, colleagues within Technology, Business Partners and other strategic business areas and working groups. You will liaise closely with the Development Team Manager giving updated information on allocated work, as well as raising any issues, risks or concerns which may affect the timely delivery of projects.
What you will bring
You will hold a related Degree/HND standard, or equivalent technical qualification, or relevant technical experience that includes significant experience of designing, automating and testing the deployment and maintenance of information system applications using Web or database technologies.
You must have excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and oral, be meticulous in your attention to detail with the ability to manage time and work to deadlines.
We are ideally looking for those who have experience and knowledge of:
- DevOps lifecycle tools/toolchain (e.g. GitLab).
- Provisioning and configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform).
- Scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python).
- Knowledge of Windows and Linux Servers and their configuration and provisioning (including containerisation e.g. Docker)
We welcome applicants with an infrastructure background, but you will be required to demonstrate some knowledge and understanding of DevOps tools, provisioning and configuration management, and have a commitment to developing skills in this area.
Working for us
As a North Yorkshire Council employee, you will have access to some great benefits via our everybody benefits scheme such as:
- Favourable local government pension scheme.
- Flexible working options.
- Home technology and green car salary sacrifice schemes.
- Shopping discounts.
- Financial wellbeing and our employee assistance programme to assist with your health and wellbeing.
- Development team members benefit from membership to Pluralsight online training.
Contact and apply
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with experience to develop their career. If you’d like to learn more about our role please contact Andrew Middleditch on 07501956031
To apply click on the apply button below or alternatively email your CV and cover letter to ResourcingSolutions@northyorks.gov.uk stating SD/P by midnight on 28/01/2024
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/total-rewards
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We welcome applications from NYCC employees only for
this vacancy. Only employees who are currently in paid employment with NYCC are
eligible to apply. Priority will be given to NYCC staff under notice of
redundancy or other authorised redeployees. If you wish to be considered for
this vacancy through redeployment please contact the Recruitment Team.
