Senior DevSecOps Engineer

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Reference number

479678

Salary

£44,050 \- £51,017
National (£44,050 \- £47,121\) London (£48,882\- £51,017\). Plus a skills allowance of up to £5,000 (non\-pensionable and non\-contractual) may be payable. Starting salary and level of skills allowance will depend on a technical skills assessment at interview.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28\.97%
GBP

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer### Contract type

Permanent### Business area

ONS \- Digital and Technology \- Digital Services (DS)### Type of role

Digital

Information Technology### Working pattern

Flexible working, Full\-time, Job share, Part\-time, Compressed hours### Number of jobs available

1
Contents
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• Location


• About the job


• Benefits


• Things you need to know


• Apply and further information

Location
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The locations for this role are Newport, Fareham (Titchfield) and London.

This role is aligned to ONS hybrid working principles, which are based on attending the office with purpose. The postholder will be expected to contribute to the organisation’s overall 40% office attendance, in line with business and role requirements.

The induction process for the role will be conducted in person.

Due to workforce controls you can only select Manchester / Darlington / Belfast / Edinburgh if you are an existing ONS employee contracted to that location. If you are not contracted at one of these sites, these options are not available to you.

Only existing ONS contractual homeworkers can select Homeworking.

Applicants who select a location they are not eligible for will be removed from the recruitment process and will not be considered for alternative locations.

Please refer to attachments for further terms and flexibilities.About the job
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Job summary

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.

The ONS Dissemination is responsible for the dissemination of all ONS data via the website and APIs. We are undergoing a transformation to a new hosting Platform on AWS Kubernetes to host the website, APIs and all supporting services.

As part of the Dissemination Platform team you will be responsible for:

• Working within the team; assisting in development activities including CI/CD, backing services and infrastructure, observability stack, and AWS Kubernetes Platform


• Troubleshooting and bug\-fixing for issues on the new hosting platform


• Coaching and mentoring team members


• Collaborating with others to design solutions and taking guidance from the Technical Lead


• Producing documentation and knowledge transfer with team members

After onboarding, you'll spend approximately one week every five weeks with a rota\-d team, supporting live dissemination services during office hours. You'll also handle market\-sensitive publishing once a month between 6:30 and 8:30 am, this currently comes with a discretionary allowance.

Job description

As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer, you will deliver and integrate software and infrastructure to form critical elements of our service delivery. You will be responsible for delivering more complex solutions, including integration into wider technologies as appropriate.

You will:

• Transform technical requirements into an effective DevSecOps roadmap to enable product delivery.


• Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues.


• Make sure deployment strategies for products and services are repeatable, secure, scalable, sustainable, and highly available.


• Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems.

Responsibilities:

• Authoring and defining Infrastructure as Code


• Execution, troubleshooting and blueprinting of CI/CD pipelines


• Working in an Agile team – following and contributing to team standards and ways of working


• Ability to research and apply new technologies in a self\-sufficient manner


• Coaching and mentoring team members


• Collaborating with others to design solutions and taking guidance from the Technical Lead


• Documentation and knowledge sharing with team members

Person specification

Essential Skills Criteria

• Programming and Build (software engineering) \- Practitioner

You can: Collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications. Use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium\-to\-high complexity, using the right standards and tools. You contribute to code reviews and give constructive feedback to others.

• Information Security \- Practitioner

You can: Design solutions and services with security controls included, specifically engineered to mitigate security threats and/or faults.

• Service support \- Expert

You can: Identify, locate and fix complex service. Advise others on different methodologies and types of service support.

• Availability and capacity management \- Working

You can: Manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and key performance indicators (KPIs).

Required Technical Skills and Experience

• Experience of working in public cloud infrastructure


• Experience supporting and developing on Kubernetes and using Helm


• Experience developing Terraform modules and environmental stacks


• Experience using Cloud managed services

Behaviours

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

• Working Together


• Managing a Quality Service


• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

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

• Programming and Build (Practitioner)


• Information Security (Practitioner)


• Service Support (Expert)


• Availability and capacity management (Working)

Benefits
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Alongside your salary of £44,050, Office for National Statistics contributes £12,761 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .
The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our valued colleagues across the organisation.

Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that our careers site will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues, and our fantastic working culture.

Inclusion \& Accessibility

At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a Disability Confident Leader we’re committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.

If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.

Things you need to know
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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.### Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.Security Clearance

For ONS the requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to applying and the department will consider eligibility by exception on a case\-by\-case basis. You will be asked to provide information regarding your UK residency during your application, and failure to provide this will result in your application being rejected.

If you are unsure that you meet the eligibility above, please read the information available on Gov.uk on this link, or contact the recruitment email on the advert before applying to discuss, as failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected and any offer of employment being withdrawn.

At the point of SC application, you will need to provide or give access to the following evidence:

• Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)


• UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records


• Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency


• Security Services records

Visa Sponsorship

ONS is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. Applicants must have a valid right to work in the UK when employment commences. If you are currently in the UK on a time\-limited visa, it must have at least 18 months remaining at the point of application.

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