Infrastructure Engineer

Our growing Technology team plays a key role in ensuring OS is at the cutting edge of geospatial capability and is looking for people to join them. Its mission is to work across the business to provide customer centric design and technology services.

Join us and you'll have an opportunity to make an impact. To empower projects that deliver real-world benefits across Britain and internationally. To hear our customers say they couldn't have done it without us. And to be central to OS's vision: to be recognised as world leaders in geospatial services; creating location insight for positive impact.

About the Role

We have an opportunity for an Engineer specialising in DevOps to join Ordnance Survey's Automatic Feature Extraction team in developing next generation Microsoft Azure based systems. Using Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines and DevOps practices to deploy and manage our systems in the Azure Cloud (in a forward-thinking agile environment), this role will challenge you to understand requirements and develop cutting edge solutions for our users and customers. We are looking for a problem solver who is keen to learn and fail fast. The team will look to you to develop and deliver systems that are functional, performant, scalable, tested, secure, maintainable, and supportable.

Here is a snapshot of the technologies that we use:

Azure Cloud Technologies (AzureML, Databricks, Azure Batch, Function Apps), Bicep, Powershell, Azure DevOps, YAML Pipelines, Pester testing. The wider team also uses Python, Databricks, Esri ArcGIS, FME, QGIS.

We implement industry standard security recommendations on our infrastructure, including recommendations from CIS and Azure Defender.

What we are looking for

If you are interested in joining a team that lies at the heart of what OS is about, we are looking for someone that can demonstrate essential skills and experience in:

• Experience of Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (or similar with desire to work in Azure).

• Experience of engineering, monitoring and supporting secure cloud production systems.

• Experience of Infrastructure as Code to create reproduceable systems (e.g. Bicep, Terraform, ARM, AzCLI) and of configuring deployment and release pipelines.

• Programming experience in a language such as C#/Python, in a shell language such as bash, Powershell and use of version control such as git.

• Understanding of software engineering best practices (TDD, CI, Clean Code, creating testable code, Design Patterns)

• Experience in iterative and incremental development.

• Problem resolution and selection of technical solutions.

• Willingness to collaborate on technical problems through pair and mob programming.

• Comfortable with engaging with stakeholders, gathering feedback, bringing recommendations and continuous improvement.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in advocating best practice within your team and to junior members of the team.

• Knowledge of Open-Source Python Data Libraries such as Pandas and Numpy or of geospatial frameworks (Esri, FME) or of machine learning computer vision.

The rewards

We want you to love what you do. That's why our benefits package rewards a job well done. We'll give you:

• Salary: £37,511 - £44,130

• Performance related bonus

• A competitive pension scheme

• We embrace flexible working and can consider different working hours dependent on the role and your personal circumstances

• 25 days annual leave - (30 days after five years) bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas

• Plus, a suite of excellent additional benefits

Location

? OSHQ is based in Southampton, Hampshire but at OS we believe work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We embrace a hybrid working model where we believe the choice is with the individual on when they work from our fantastic office or from home. We want to continue to be an inclusive employer and recognise that one size doesn't necessarily fit all.

Closing date: Sunday, 31 March 2024

We believe diversity and inclusion is about working together - in an encouraging and respectful environment to reach our full potential. We believe combining different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives will help us reach our vision and be trusted and admired across the globe for setting the standards and leading the way.

We are looking for passionate people from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background or religion.

We're individually talented and collectively powerful, and we give you the space to take your career in whichever direction you want.