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Package Description
Job Reference: 21720
Band: D
Salary: Up to £72,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Office Base is London. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
Role is mapped to Systems Engineer, Team Lead on our Career Path Framework.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.
Job Introduction
The BBC Digital Distribution Team look after the Server and Storage platforms that many BBC internal and external workloads run on. It has many IaaS platforms, which are evolving to offer on-prem Cloud-like services.
Main Responsibilities
As An Automation And Analytics Team Lead, You Will
* Work independently and be self-motivated, and provide technical and architectural leadership to a team of other Automation Infrastructure Engineers, Developers and Analysts.
* Automate the provisioning, deployment, scaling and monitoring of the on-prem BBC IaaS virtualisation platform, virtual machines and other systems, managing resources efficiently via deployment of scalable infrastructure.
* Develop libraries and scripts, to test and implement software tools or programs which will automate manual tasks, technical operations and other data-centre maintenance operations.
* Create any number of analytics dashboards, monitors and reports, using a combination of versatile vendor tools/applications and custom code.
* Collaborate with tenants, Product Managers, developers, engineers, specialists, operations people and other Business Areas to brainstorm and come up with automation use cases.
* Produce, maintain and own the Automation Service that will provide the framework and tools so that automation services can be provided to the IaaS Infrastructure, Server Support and DBA Teams and other BBC Teams.
* Maintain and continuously improve existing automation abilities, capabilities and techniques; use code repositories, CI/CD processes, and agile/SCRUM methodology.
* Communicate with users of the automation tools or any of the automated output, to explain functionality to understand their needs.
* Perform retrospectives to improve delivery solutions, ensuring continuous improvements can be made to existing automation, analytics, alerting, reporting and/or processes.
* Assist, guide and work with the IaaS Infrastructure team to provide an Infrastructure as Code implemented alternative hypervisor for the business.
* Assist and guide the IaaS team to provide a containerised solution for the business.
* Design and develop automation processes and tools in various languages which may include Python, PowerShell, Yaml, Java, or similar programming language.
* Lead in the maintenance and creation of applicable Automation and Analytics Team documentation.
* Work closely with infrastructure, operations and development teams to identify and resolve any problems that may arise with the platform.
Are you the right candidate?
You will be an experienced team lead within technical operations or systems engineer with demonstrable experience in producing solutions for Automation, Analytics, Reporting, Development, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and DevOps.
We would like to hear from you if you have some of the below additional skills/experience:
* VM’s - Systems Administration, Security, Deployment, Management and Patching on one or more of RHEL / Ubuntu / CentOS.
* Containers - RHEL OpenShift / Docker / Kubernetes Implementation, Administration and Maintenance.
* Infrastructure - VMware ESXI / vCenter / NSX, Nutanix, OpenShift Virtualisation.
* Automation – Ansible / AAP / AWX Development, Administration, Management, Upgrades; Terraform.
* Development - Python, PowerShell, Yaml, java, etc.
* CI/CD and IoC - Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Git.
* Analytics / Dashboards / Reports – VMware Aria vRealise Operations, Grafana, Tableau.
About The BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individuals unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology
* Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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