Defence Business Services (DBS) DevOps Engineer
Ministry of Defence
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 9th March 2025
Reference number: 388409
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Contract type: Permanent
Working pattern: Flexible working, Full-time, Job share
Location
Centurion Building, Gosport, Hampshire, Southeast, PO13 9XA
Abbey Wood North, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, Southwest, BS34 8QW
Tomlinson House, Norcross, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY5 3WP
About the job
Are you a dedicated person who is passionate about making a difference? Would you like to work for the Ministry of Defence?
Defence Business Services (DBS) is one of the largest shared service organisations in Europe that provides a wide range of corporate services to over 1.2 million end users, including serving and past military and families, as well as MoD civil servants and industry. DBS delivers large scale administration and smaller specialist services to enable the wider MOD to focus on its core aims, maintaining the UK’s Defence and Security.
DBS is committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues. We are building an inclusive culture and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society. We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us through opportunities to develop your skills and experience.
DBS has recently undertaken a review of its operational locations in the North West, and have consolidated all activities in Norcross, Blackpool. A further move, to the new Government Hub at Talbot Gateway in Blackpool, is scheduled to take place in 2026.
Your responsibilities in this role:
* Provide data modelling, business analysis and development skills across the reporting platform.
* Develop data marts and reporting models to support the Oracle Analytics Server data warehouse.
* Work closely with our commercial partner and your colleagues to support the production service, investigate incidents and problems, provide analysis and resolution as part of a resolver team.
* Implement best practice for practical data management.
* Work within an ITIL aligned service management framework for implementing change.
* Work with your colleagues to ensure the underlying data for a business process is clearly documented, understood and communicated.
* Establish productive working relationships with our commercial partner, ensuring that data lifecycle, security and quality is at the fore for all projects.
* Ensure that all technical design artefacts address requirements and adhere to data management standards and principles.
* Support service transition lifecycle activities, including requirements development, solution design, testing and deployment.
* Profile data sets to assess the quality, reporting and analysis required.
* Work within an agile delivery focused team.
* There are opportunities for training and development to further develop you within the role.
To succeed in this role, you should enjoy working as part of a team, be confident with IT, have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills and be an effective communicator. In return this role will provide you with the opportunity to expand your knowledge and develop your skills to a higher level.
Additional information:
Salary: 36,530
Frequency: Per year
Remote Job: Fully in-person
Employment type: Full-time
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