Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's Digital Services Team is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified individual as the Lead DevOps Engineer responsible for leading and managing the DevOps function and team within Northumbria Healthcare Trust, delivering on a range of systems with the Digital Services department.
This will include the management of Backend and Frontend Infrastructure in Azure and AWS environments.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Responsibilities:
* Define processes that our DevOps function follows.
* Work closely with Project Managers/Product Owners to provide insight towards new development work.
* Deliver agreed changes within budget and timescale. Ensure rotation between functions to ensure a variety share of system knowledge between staff.
* Resource the team correctly and ensure accurate estimates are provided.
* Work with the Head Of Development to expand the resourcing within the team and assist with interviewing new team members.
* Actively involved in delivering on DevOps projects, writing infrastructure as code, and setting up CI/CD pipelines.
* Be part of the Agile development process to assist with resourcing and estimations.
* Work on existing and greenfield solutions that use the latest technologies.
* Operate in a cloud-first development environment and introduce new tools/approaches to improve the development lifecycle.
* Remove blockers to delivery and escalate issues when appropriate.
* Assist with evaluating and validating candidate processes against the business strategy and suitability for development.
* Operational accountability for the delivery of infrastructure solutions to agreed timescales.
* Track and report performance and benefits to all stakeholders.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High-quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Contact Information:
Name: Richard Forrest
Job title: Development Manager
Email address: richard.forrest@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
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