Lead Infrastructure Engineer (devops)

Description:

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for delivering the infrastructure and tooling to support a continuous delivery approach within Companies House. You will be user and service focused ensuring that value is delivered through improvement and automation of platform services. Working in a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers, a Lead Infrastructure Engineer builds, administers, supports, and maintains solutions as directed and according to departmental policy. Most of the time will be spent working with the delivery teams on carrying out the infrastructure work on development projects. This will include answering any queries regarding environment, configuration, and CI/CD processes.

Person specification

Experience and key skills required:

• Expert level of skill is required for this role – AWS Cloud technology, CI/CD tooling (such as Concourse, Jenkins etc), GitHub (source control and versioning) and Terraform.
• A Practitioner level of skill demonstrates you use these skills daily and have a vast experience and examples of these – Containerisation (Docker), Microservice and Serverless Architecture and Unix/Linux.
• Working knowledge of the following is desired – Ansible and Packer.
• Awareness of the following skills is desirable – Programming Languages (Java and NodeJS) and Python.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Terraform
• AWS Cloud technology
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tooling
• Microservice and Serverless Architecture