REF Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary: £56,745 Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Fixed Term until December 2029 Location: Westward House, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS34 8SR (Hybrid) Grade: UKRI Band F Positions Available: 1
Closing Date: 19 Jan 25
ABOUT US
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. We are now developing the systems to deliver REF 2029 and looking for talented individuals to help.
PURPOSE
An exciting opportunity to shape the design, development, and delivery of the UK’s next research assessment exercise, REF 2029. We require systems to support:
1. Administration of the exercise
2. The submission of large volumes of research data from all participating HEIs
3. The dissemination and assessment of all elements of the research data submitted
You will be working in an agile development team following a user-centered design approach.
MAIN OUTPUTS
A Senior DevOps engineer delivers and integrates software to form a complete DevOps toolchain. They are responsible for planning, designing, and delivering the application infrastructure stories and cloud real estate for the project. At this level, you will:
* Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery.
* Provide coaching and mentoring across the wider systems team.
* Ensure deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.
* Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Availability and capacity management. Ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures, identifying capacity issues, stipulating the required changes and instigating these.
Development process optimisation. Analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes, and lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements.
Information security. Design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats.
Modern standards approach. Apply the most appropriate, modern standards and practices.
Programming and build (software engineering – management). Collaborate with others to review specifications and use these to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity.
Prototyping. Approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others.
Service support. Demonstrate a breadth of understanding of service support and identify, locate and fix faults.
Systems design. Design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.
Systems integration. Define the integration build and coordinate build activities across systems.
User focus. Collaborate with user researchers and represent users internally.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
(S) – ASSESSED AT SHORTLISTING
(I) – ASSESSED AT INTERVIEW
(S&I) – ASSESSED AT BOTH SHORTLISTING AND INTERVIEW
ESSENTIAL:
* Experience of securely building infrastructure within the AWS cloud using AWS technologies (S/I)
* Building and configuring new server platforms and infrastructure using IaC tools – Terraform (essential) (S/I)
* Working experience of databases (S/I)
* Strong scripting and language skills (S/I)
* Experience of working with Development Teams to deliver CI/CD strategies (S/I)
* Experience of core technologies such as containerization (S/I)
* Identification and development of resources for sustainable internal capability (S/I)
DESIRABLE:
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills (I)
* Strong planning and delivery skills (I)
* Extensive experience of Agile software development (I)
* Installation and management of monitoring tools (I)
* Instrumentation and Telemetry experience (I)
* Working experience of other software (I)
APPLICATIONS
Online applications only for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for the role.
HOW WE SUPPORT EDI IN THE WORKFORCE
At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect. For further information, please visit ‘How we support EDI in the workforce’.
DISABILITY CONFIDENT EMPLOYER
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancies.
HOW TO APPLY
Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role.
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