cloud engineer Edinburgh, Scotland
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Join us in delivering valuable services to the people of Scotland!
The cloud platform service is a core to the wider Digital Strategy of the Scottish Government helping valuable public services to be delivered securely, efficiently in an accessible way.
As a valued member of the Cloud Platform Service team, your work could be used by and benefit everyone across Scotland!
In addition to developing the platform, you will play a key role in supporting its wider adoption and success.
Working at scale and with a wide variety of public service users our work is technically complex, rich in variety and provides a real sense of pride - knowing we help make a positive, tangible difference on people’s lives.
We Value…
- An Agile, User First approach
- Continually improving through iteration based on testing, measuring and feedback
- Innovation – committing to changes in established practice which can improve outcomes
- Collaboration– working in multi-disciplinary teams, learning from and supporting each other; debating constructively and committing to solutions
- Being valued for your perspective and work
- Being supportive and being supported
- Diversity in the perspectives we bring to our work and colleagues who we work with
What Employees say About Us?
** Lead Cloud Engineer **
“The SG Cloud 1st team is a fantastic place to both use an expand your cloud knowledge alongside other experiences and passionate people. The teams are friendly and pull together to achieve our goals. You feel like you are part of something and that you are contributing to something special”.
** Cloud Engineer **
“Chance to work with a large and diverse number of customers across public sector”
Job description
The Lead Cloud Engineer will be part of a feature team responsible for the delivery of AWS or Azure components and environments delivered by Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Lead a feature team of infrastructure specialists and engineers ensuring services are integrated, delivered and operated as required.
- On-going build and maintenance of the SG Cloud Platform infrastructure environments .
- The creation of the SG Cloud Platform infrastructure, utilising appropriate tools for identifying and correcting complex issues.
- Planning and scheduling of appropriate cloud infrastructure releases in line with release and change management procedures.
- Develop the necessary pipelines and tooling to support the SG Cloud Platform DevOps practices.
- Maintaining knowledge of this area of the ICT specialism, to suggest enhancements or modernisation where and when applicable. The post holder(s) will also be required to stay informed of developments in other areas of technology which have a bearing on the provision of services for the SG Cloud Platform.
- Defining and manage small scale projects for improving the platform.
- Act as technical product owners, developing medium-long term strategies for product lines.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance through coaching and mentoring
- Lead the sharing of knowledge and good practice
- Staff Management duties
Person specification
We’d love you to apply if you meet the following essential criteria. If you’d like to chat first we’d love you to
- Working knowledge of deploying, developing and managing AWS or Azure cloud platform, automation and scripting skills such as Python, Ruby, Groovy proficiency and shell scripting (e.g. BASH), use of GIT for source code version control
- Experience of platform and application automated deployment technologies such as(Ansible, Terraform, AWX) and exposure to continuous integration and build tools (e.g. Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, or similar)
- Knowledge of Kubernetes container management platforms such as EKS and Openshift
- Experience of Linux/Unix/Windows system administration skills including a good understanding of infrastructure, network, and application security including understanding of OWASP objectives and requirements, configuration of firewalls, load balancers and other network equipment
Benefits
We provide an attractive package with extensive benefits including: -
- Salary between £68,540 to £79,109
- £5000 Digital (DDaT) Pay Supplement after a 3-month qualifying period ***
- Generous Pension Scheme with employer contributions ranging from 26.6% to 30.3%
- Flexible working arrangements including compressed hours and flexi time, with potential to accrue up to 4 extra days off a month
- 25 Days Annual Leave (increasing in line with service) plus 11.5 days Public & Privilege holidays
- Access to a wide range of courses offered by the Scottish Digital Academy, plus opportunities to gain professional memberships and academic qualifications
- Automatic Membership of the Scottish Government DDaT profession and professional development system
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*** Digital (DDaT) Pay Supplement:
This post attracts a £5000 DDAT pay supplement after a 3 months DDaT competency qualifying period. Pay supplements are temporary payments and are subject to regular review.
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Selection process details
The Closing Date for applications is 06/08/2023
To apply please submit the following using our online application process: -
- A CV (no longer than two A4 pages) setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements, with particular reference to the essential criteria
- A Personal Statement (no longer than 750 words) explaining why you consider your personal skills, qualities, and experience suitable for this role, with particular reference to the essential criteria
We are unable to progress applications which fail to provide clear evidence of meeting the essential criteria in their CV and Personal Statement.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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