Defence Business Services (DBS) Senior DevOps Engineer
Ministry of Defence
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 2nd March 2025
Reference number: 387622
Salary: £44,590 - £55,990
Location:
* Centurion Building - Gosport PO13 9XA
* Abbey Wood North - Bristol BS34 8JH
* Kentigern House - Glasgow G2 8EX
* Tomlinson House - Blackpool 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. Services include Human Resources, Pay, Veterans, Finance and Procurement.
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 society. We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us through opportunities to develop your skills and experience.
We also offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career accessible to you and offer a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%.
Job description
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Defence Business Services (DBS), Armed Forces and Veterans Services (AFVS), Development & Change (DevChg) DevOps Team. You will lead a small DevOps team of Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) technical specialists, who provide development and support activities to a central AFVS data analytical service within the MoD.
As the successful candidate you will provide senior DevOps engineering skills and leadership of a small DevOps team of data modellers and OAS technical specialists. You will provide OAS technical support, maintenance, and development activities on a large enterprise data warehouse reporting application.
The role is primarily to lead the full software delivery lifecycle of change and incident resolution of the MI Reporting Platform Database, currently OAS, with a DevOps and agile delivery focused team.
Your responsibilities in this role:
* Mentoring and providing practical support for other team members on all areas of the OAS product and related technical matters.
* Service Operational support of a large enterprise reporting application, working within an ITIL aligned service management framework.
* As part of a resolver team for OAS incidents, respond efficiently and effectively to service tickets raised, as well as ensuring the team is managing the ticket workload.
* Undertake service improvements with fully documented responses to new business requirements, problem remediation and improvement activities.
* Develop full software capabilities within OAS with full testing and deployment, making use of agile methodologies.
* Represent and champion the AFVS Analytics business area in technical meetings and discussions with the Contractor, product vendor and other MoD departments.
* Collaborate closely with the Contractor resources and technical teams to ensure coherent and effective solutions are developed and support routine monitoring activities.
* Build, maintain, and review technical design documentation for the reporting platform, applying appropriate standards and ensuring high service quality.
Additional information:
Salary: £44,590 - £55,990
Frequency: Per year
Remote Job: Fully in-person
Employment type: Full-time #J-18808-Ljbffr