The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.
Home Office Digital, Data and Technology Home Office Digital, Data and Technology designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles and property.
By joining Data Services and Analytics now, you can help drive forward our aim to become recognised as the leading provider of data insight services in Government.
Within DSA, you will be working in the Cloud Infrastructure and Tooling team, providing platform and deployment support for over 1000 staff who rely on the CIT team for accesses, deployment and upkeep of their infrastructure and to help improve Developer experience.
Within DDaT, the Data Services and Analytics (DSA) team find innovative uses for Home Office data and contains one of the most advanced data analytics centres in Government. We strive to lead the way in appropriate and proportionate use of data and analytics to deliver joined-up, intelligent services that unlock the value from data and improve decision making, policy and operations.
What this means is a daily opportunity to work with teams across the Home Office’s areas of responsibility, from borders, visas and passports to policing and national security, with some of the largest and most varied datasets and in support of critical national initiatives.
Data Services and Analytics consist of technical and non-technical professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds, we are the hub of data expertise within the department. We support our teams with structured learning, both formal and on-the-job, mentoring and feedback.
As a DevOps within DSA, you will be supporting the deployment of products and services that underpin the works of over 1000 team members. You will use Infrastructure as Code methodologies, with standard tools like Terraform, to maintain a complex Public Cloud based estate. You will manage and maintain Git based code repositories for infrastructure and for applications used by the business. You will use your experience in Public Cloud to help the team manage a large number of accounts and services.
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
* Providing helpdesk support to resolve platform operational issues and support system and service uptime in a timely manner.
* Writing and editing automation components (scripts/playbooks) for our platforms.
* Helping execute test and deployment activities with teams.
* Signposting users to appropriate people and technical resources.
* Learning more advanced automation and cloud skills to advance as an engineer.
All our engineers will be expected to embody an open and positive approach, supporting the Home Office in:
* Progressing the DDaT Profession, understanding all roles and helping to build our community.
* Working and assessing to appropriate standards: for instance, accessibility, the GDS service standard and our own community practices.
* Improving our skills and approaches as well as keeping up to speed with the technology landscape.
Working Pattern
This role is available on a full-time basis with the option of compressed hours working. This role is also suitable for part-time working hours.
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