Devops Engineer

Reference Number - 78771

This DevOps Engineer will report to the Analytics & DevOps Lead and will work within Digital, Safety Strategy and Support Services directorate based in either our London or Crawley office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £70,000.00 and a bonus of 7.5%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote

Close Date: 14/04/2024

We also provide the following additional benefits

• Annual Leave
• Personal Pension Plan - Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme
• Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On - scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.
• Discounted access to sports and social clubs
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Should you not possess the full range of essential skills, qualifications and competencies listed above, there may be an opportunity for further training to equip you. If you do not possess all relevant competencies for the core grade, it will be appropriate to appoint at a lower grade until they have developed the required competencies.

JOB PURPOSE:

Electric vehicles, solar farms, wind turbines; it's UKPN's infrastructure that enables these assets to connect and power the UK's low carbon transition and we need your help to accelerate our digital capabilities and solutions so we can do more.

We are starting an exciting journey here at UK Power Networks; we're focusing on developing our ways of working, on changing the way the business interacts with data and the way we manage and use technology and systems to help us share more with our customers and partners.

But we need skills like yours to help us move faster.

You will sit within our new Digital Sub-Directorate and you will report into the Analytics and DevOps Lead. The Analytics and DevOps team works across all areas of our business, from Operations to Customer Services to Finance, and many more. We are dedicated to developing cutting-edge models, producing insights, and building interactive applications using technologies such as Databricks, Plotly Dash, AI to solve the business' most valuable problems. We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team and help us maintain our models, Plotly Dash apps, GitHub space, and implement DevOps best practices.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will help ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our models and Plotly Dash applications. You will maintain our GitHub space, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and bringing DevOps best practices to our team. We ask that you have strong technical skills, a solid understanding of cloud technologies, and a passion for automation and continuous improvement. Python and GitHUB experience is essential, while experience with Databricks, PySpark and Azure.

DIMENSIONS:

No line management or budgetary accountabilities.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Maintain machine learning models, interactive dashboards, and Plotly Dash applications deployed in production environments.
• Manage and enhance our GitHub space, ensuring code quality, version control, and collaboration among team members.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and monitoring of applications.
• Collaborate with the Analytics team to design infrastructure solutions that support development and deployment workflows.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, deployments, and application performance.
• Implement DevOps best practices, such as configuration management, and automated testing.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices in DevOps, cloud computing, Python, Databricks, PySpark, Azure, and GitHub.

NATURE AND SCOPE

Within the utilities sector we are a leader winning a trio of awards at the industry's Utility Week Awards including; the Diversity Award, the Staff Development Award and the Digital Transformation Award.

Hopefully this gives you a feel for the type of organisation we are. We are constantly striving to be better, so come be a part of it.

Qualifications:

Roles like this, supported and backed at the highest levels of an organisation with an effective free reign, do not come up very often so we're looking for the right fit for the team - intuition and initiative, real pride in the quality of work, and an understanding that 'how' you work is just as important as 'what' you're working on.

Experience

• Experience working within cloud-based architecture and deployment (Azure experience and qualification is desirable)
• Hands-on experience with building, maintaining, and deploying interactive dashboards, machine learning models, and web applications.
• Proficiency in managing GitHub repositories, including branching, merging, and code reviews.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP (Azure experience preferred).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools preferably GitHub Actions.
• Understanding of networking, security, and system administration concepts.
• Experience with Databricks and PySpark (preferred).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Cloud & DevOps certification advantageous.
• 2 years + experience as a DevOps engineer.
• Experience in SQL coding and Python.

Skills

• Data engineering, ETLs, APIs, data manipulation, cloud platforms, data integration techniques
• SQL, Python, GitHub, Databricks & Azure (advantageous)
• CI/CD
• Cloud based automation
• Strong problem solving skills
• Solutions architecture concepts

ORGANISATION:

Reporting to the Analytics & DevOps Lead. Part of the Analytics & DevOps Team in our Digital Sub-directorate

Health & Safety Responsibilities

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

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We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.