Senior Cloud Engineer Social Security Scotland Glasgow Permanant
Full Time @Shaz Capital Ltd posted 3 weeks ago in Software Engineering ShortlistJob Detail
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Job ID 13214
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Career Level Others
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Gender Not Preferred
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Industry Information technology
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- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Paid volunteer time
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Are you a dynamic, highly motivated senior cloud engineer with the ability to work under pressure in a fast moving cloud platform? Do you have a well-honed aptitude to problem solving, service optimisation? Do your strengths include leadership, collective-ownership, collaboration, motivation toward achieving and maintaining high quality standards?
Social Security Scotland are looking to recruit a number of Senior Cloud Engineers to help develop our Amazon Web Services platform.
The Senior Cloud Engineer role will be within the Engineering and Cloud service branch focussed on the maintenance and delivery of our AWS hosting platform. There will be regular interaction with colleagues in the CDO Architecture team, Cyber Security Team, Applications Development teams and a number of suppliers involved in the provision of the Division’s software and infrastructure.
A Lead infrastructure operations engineer (Senior Cloud Engineer) will lead one or more specialist teams to support, manage and maintain the core infrastructure that underpins production services. You will use your experience and technical skills to mentor Cloud Engineers and Associate Cloud Engineers in order to build a greater capability.
This role may also require some out of hours working due to production releases or scheduled maintenance, but any instances will be communicated and agreed with advance notice.
DDaT Pay Supplement
This post attracts a £5000 Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 months DDaT competency qualifying period. The payment will be backdated to your start date in the role. Pay supplements are temporary payments designed to address recruitment and retention issues caused by market pressures and are subject to regular review. This post is part of the Scottish Government DDaT profession. As a member of the profession you will join the professional development system, currently BCS Role Mode plus.
Job description
- Manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
- Deal with high impact, complex change requests.
- Write and interpret code (python and ansible preferred).
- Identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance, and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.
- Lead the investigation and resolution of incidents.
- Take accountability for issues that occur and be proactive in searching for potential problems.
- Initiate and monitor actions to investigate patterns and trends to resolve problems.
- Effectively consult specialists where required.
- Determine the appropriate remedy and assist with its implementation.
- Determine preventative measures.
- Draft and maintain procedures and documentation.
- Identify process improvements and contribute to the definition of best practice.
Person specification
We use an assessment framework called ‘Success Profiles’ which lists the elements we test and provides detailed descriptions of each. Find out more about how we assess the Success Profile elements.
Essential Experience
- Able to provide business and technical leadership to a team of experienced technologists, evidencing a deep understanding of Cloud and DevOps platforms such as AWS, Jenkins, Terraform and Elasticsearch to provide strategic direction in one or more of these areas.
- Evidence of delivering continual service improvement; willing to challenge established practices, using evidence to deliver a better service to the business as a whole. This will include a vision for streamlining processes and reducing costs to ensure focus on delivering support for new business critical technologies.
Technical/Professional Skills
This role is aligned to Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer within the IT Operations job family. Please review the following to understand the skill expectations – Infrastructure operations engineer – Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework
- Availability and capacity management – (Level: Working)
- Change management – (Level: Practitioner)
- Coding and scripting – (Level: Working)
- Continual service improvement – (Level: Working)
- Incident management – (Level: Practitioner)
- Ownership and initiative – (Level: Practitioner)
- Service focus – (Level: Working)
- Technical understanding – (Level: Working)
Behaviours
- Leadership (Level 4)
- Changing and Improving (Level 4)
You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours, here: Success Profiles – Civil Service Behaviours (publishing.service.gov.uk)
Benefits
A Civil Service Pension – This job comes with a Civil Service pension. New joiners to the Civil Service will join a career average pension scheme as standard. Read more here – www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk.
Healthy work life balance – We can offer the possibility of full-time, part-time, term-time, and job shares. We also encourage flexible working.
Discounts – You can enjoy a vast range of retail, travel and lifestyle discounts through our benefit scheme.
Personal support for you – Our Employee Assistance Programme gives you confidential, independent information and guidance 24/7.
Volunteering special leave – Up to six days paid special leave a year for volunteering. We support our staff to help causes important to them.
Great locations – Our bright and modern offices in the heart of Dundee and Glasgow have been designed with staff in mind. Both locations are ideal for public transport.
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Expected Timeline (subject to change)
Sift – w/c 13th January 2025
Interview – w/c 27th January 2025
Location – In Person in either Dundee or Glasgow
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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