About the job

Job summary

Use technology to shape the future of the energy industry 

As the UK’s regulator for the energy industry, Ofgem works on behalf of energy consumers to ensure that every household and business in the UK can rely on a safe, affordable and environmentally sustainable energy supply. Now that record increases and volatility in global gas prices have put the energy market under severe strain, we’re more than ever looking for ways to innovate and modernise our approach to energy regulation. We are building a Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) driven organisation at Ofgem, and we need the best people involved to help us provide our customers with outstanding experiences,

This is an opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer to take on a central role in our technical community – working to ensure the continuity and resilience of our cloud PaaS/IaaS, working with Kubernetes clusters in Azure. You can expect to be deeply involved in continuous improvements to platforms, including system development, processes design and automation and diagnostics improvements to deliver assurance of platform security, privacy and resilience. You’ll work collaboratively within and beyond the DevOps community, using agile methodologies to securely automate and improve efficiencies between different internal platforms.

It’s a highly innovative working environment – both in terms of the technology we use and the working practices we adopt. We’re revolutionising how data is used within the energy sector making it a core tool in delivering our ambitions of net zero carbon emissions and lower energy prices for consumers.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team testing the boundaries of energy regulation in the UK, and to take your career to the next level. 

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups. While this is a full-time role, flexible working patterns and job shares are welcome.

Job description

An exciting opportunity for a driven individual to take on an exciting new career challenge. 

You'll be working with platform teams to develop, build and configure DevOps tools, technologies, techniques, patterns, and processes, and create trusted pipelines of work from development through to production environments utilising high degrees of automation. 

Person specification

Key Responsibilities 

• Contribute to building the DevOps engineering capability, culture and mind-sets within the organisation 

• Coach product and platform teams to higher levels of DevOps capability, to drive continuous improvements and enhancing the end customer experience 

• Developing, Testing, Debugging  and Troubleshooting of Containized Infrastructure 

• Support the set up of DevOps methodologies and tools within platform and product teams and demonstrate technical implementation 

• Support the development and establishment of appropriate DevOps 

• You will work with the development and operations teams to ensure that the Kubernetes infrastructure is able to handle the company's workloads 

Essential Criteria 

• Experience of Deployments and Maintaining Azure Kubernetes Pipelines (LEAD) 
• Experience of Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (LEAD) 
• Experience establishing monitoring systems and alerting procedures. 
• Knowledge and experience working with Azure cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes 

Desirable Criteria 

• Experience with TCP/IP networking protocols and components as implemented in IAAS 
• Development experience in config management (i.e Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform) 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £45,614, OFGEM contributes £12,315 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), and upload a copy of your CV anonymising all details where necessary.  

You will then be asked to answer 3 Technical Questions evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within these answers how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities. 

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expect all candidates to abide by these principles. Ofgem take any incidences of cheating very seriously. Please ensure all examples provided are of your own experience. Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant applications will be withdrawn from the process.

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

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). 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. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.