About the job

Job summary

The Opportunity

Parliamentary Digital Services are searching for a DevOps Engineer looking to progress and enhance their early career to work with the House of Commons and the House of Lords to realise the digital ambitions of a modern Parliament, and to support in building a digital democracy. You will be joining our esteemed Product Directorate that sit within the Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS).

The DevOps Engineer role is integral to the DevOps function within the buisness, where the focus is on optimizing software deployment processes, ensuring resilient and secure hosting, and implementing robust service monitoring. By automating manual processes and establishing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, the DevOps function strives to accelerate software delivery, enhance reliability, and elevate the overall customer experience.

As part of this role, you will contribute to various responsibilities, including deepening technical knowledge, maintaining, and automating delivery pipelines, managing infrastructure, providing customer support, and fostering collaboration across teams. This position requires a collaborative and adaptable individual who is committed to upholding team values and promoting a positive team culture within the PDS.

Other key responsibilities are:

• Ensuring that knowledge and awareness of the technical architecture of products and services built by the team are documented, shared, and updated in accordance with the sprint cycle
• Contributing to the development, maintenance, and support of automated pipelines to ensure seamless delivery across all environments.
• Building, monitoring, and providing support for infrastructure to ensure secure and resilient hosting capabilities.
• Collaborating with colleagues across the organization to ensure effective management and support of all environments and their corresponding systems, aligning with the evolving needs of the business.
• Aiding in the creation and management of accreditation processes for the development of products and services, ensuring adherence to established standards and requirements.
• Role model the PDS values in your approach to work and your behaviour.

Job description

• Ensuring that knowledge and awareness of the technical architecture of products and services built by the team are documented, shared, and updated in accordance with the sprint cycle
• Contributing to the development, maintenance, and support of automated pipelines to ensure seamless delivery across all environments.
• Building, monitoring, and providing support for infrastructure to ensure secure and resilient hosting capabilities.
• Collaborating with colleagues across the organization to ensure effective management and support of all environments and their corresponding systems, aligning with the evolving needs of the business.
• Aiding in the creation and management of accreditation processes for the development of products and services, ensuring adherence to established standards and requirements.
• Role model the PDS values in your approach to work and your behaviour.

The above list of key responsibilities is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope and banding of the post.

Person specification

Criterion 1 – Modern standards approach 
Understands key principles of modern standards approach, how they apply to the work they are undertaking, and will apply under guidance.  

Criterion 2 – Cloud Technologies 
Experience using cloud technologies (Azure), including building, and supporting infrastructure (IaaS and PaaS), monitoring, alerting, storage, backup, and security. 

Criterion 3 – Programming and build 
Designs, codes, tests, corrects, and documents simple programs or scripts under the direction of others (PowerShell).

Criterion 4 – Service support 
Able to help fix faults following agreed procedures. Carries out agreed infrastructure maintenance tasks.  

Criterion 5 – System integration 
Aware of how to integrate systems and the challenges of designing, building and testing interfaces between systems.  
 
Criterion 6 – User Focus 
Has an awareness or understanding of user experience analysis and its principles. Able to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audience and can work as part of a team whilst upholding the values of inclusion and diversity. 

Benefits

Please refer to our Candidate Information Pack for a full list of our benefits which include:

• up to 35 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
• generous maternity pay policy up to 6 months full pay
• great pension scheme options (contributory and non-contributory)
• on-site subsidised gym, nursery, catering, post office, travel office and GP
• flexible options including hybrid working and family friendly policies

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How To Apply

Please make sure you're clear on the requirements of the role. These can be found in the Job Description and Candidate Information Pack. You will need to upload a CV and show how you meet up to the first five criterion. Our application process is anonymous, so please remove any personal information from your CV.

Apply By: 6th June 2024 at 23:55

Interviews: W/C 17th June

Format: Panel Interview (Remote)

Our Culture

For our people, we provide an amazing opportunity to bring their talents to an institution that sits right at the heart of society in the UK. We are helping to change UK Parliament and strengthen democracy. What matters here is your potential for growth and your commitment to playing your part in our ongoing success.

We are passionate about providing an environment which promotes inclusion, diversity and equality. Regardless of your age, gender, ethnicity, beliefs or any of the other things that make you, you. We welcome applications from people who feel under-represented in the workforce. This includes those who may feel disadvantaged because of their socioeconomic circumstances.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.