Job Description:

Job Description

Senior DevOps engineer
A senior DevOps engineer delivers and integrates software to form a complete DevOps toolchain. They are responsible for planning and designing large groups of stories.

At this level, you will:

transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery
provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
make sure deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available
have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems
There are 2 different roles for this - a management role and a technical role.

Management role: skills needed for this role
Availability and capacity management. You ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures, identifying capacity issues, stipulating the required changes and instigating these. You know how to initiate remedial action. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

Development process optimisation (management). You can analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes, and lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements. You can help to evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy and standards. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

Information security. You know about information security and can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

Modern standards approach. You know how to use a modern standards approach and guide others to use it as well. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

Programming and build (software engineering – management). You collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications and use these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

Prototyping. You approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You can establish design patterns and iterate them. You can use a variety of methods of prototyping and choose the most appropriate ones. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
Service support. You can identify, locate and fix faults. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

Systems design. You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You know how to select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and the integration of multiple systems and technology. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

Systems integration (management). You can define the integration build. You can coordinate build activities across systems and understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

User focus. You know how to collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can champion user research to focus on all users. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

Technical role: Skills needed for this role
Availability and capacity management. You manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets. (Relevant skill level: working)
Development process optimisation. You can identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions. (Relevant skill level: working)
Information security. You know about information security and can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
Modern standards approach. You can apply a modern standards approach competently and guide others in so doing. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

Programming and build (software engineering). You know how to collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications. You can use these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

Prototyping. You approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You can establish design patterns and iterate them. You can use a variety of methods of prototyping and choose the most appropriate ones. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
Service support. You will be able to demonstrate a breadth of understanding of service support. (Relevant skill level: expert)

Systems design. You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You know how to select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and the integration of multiple systems and technology. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
Systems integration. You can define the integration build. You can coordinate build activities across systems and understand how to undertake and support integration-testing activities. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

User focus. You know how to collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can champion

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