Cloud Infrastructure and Environments Manager West Midlands
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Diverse Perspectives and experiences are critical to our success, and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role. We look forward to receiving your application.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
At the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), we believe everyone has the right to come home safe and well from their job. We use world-leading science to prevent work-related death, injury and ill health. We don’t just inspect and investigate; we also provide advice and training to organisations. All this together means we help keep people safe, boost productivity, support the UK economy and contribute to a fairer society.
Core to all HSE’s work is the data, information and knowledge that we have gathered and developed, and which is used to support our field force of inspectors, scientists and policy makers. Information Technology plays a vital role in assuring that HSE staff have the right information, in the right place and at the right time.
HSE is now developing on a roadmap to replace its core business systems. Major digital services programmes are underway, operating with the guidance of the Government Digital Service’s service manual and TCOP, to redesign how HSE delivers its work and how new technologies can improve operational processes. Collaboration and IoT are integral to HSE’s future, supporting remote inspections and compliance monitoring.
HSE’s Development Operations (DevOps) Engineering teams, comprising both internal and outsourced capabilities, delivers support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE, and implement continuous improvement (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for services once live. The team will design, establish and operate the processes, architectures, and services that will deliver all of HSE digital and technology services. The team will ensure that new cloud-based technologies are secure by design and remain secure during operations, protecting HSE’s data and users from cyber-attack and unauthorised loss.
Job description
As Cloud Infrastructure and Environments Manager you will provide the leadership and management around the demand and controls of HSE’s Microsoft Azure and Dynamics 365 production and non-production IT environments.
In supporting both change and service delivery, you will develop and implement governance, processes, and tools to improve the quality of the environments management service to support HSE’s digital programmes and projects.
This is a 2 year Fixed Term Appointment with the possibility of becoming permanent subject to programme funding.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement appropriate governance for environment management for Azure and Dynamics 365
- Work with digital programme teams to understand their requirements for environments (including all Azure and Dynamics pre-production and production environments)
- Maintain an accurate centralised schedule of the status of all environments
- Ensure that environment build processes, including architecture designs and security requirements, are understood, documented and implemented
- Plan, develop and co-ordinate releases to the various environments, ensuring that risk is kept to a minimum
- Drive reusability, scalability, and maintainability into the Environments management framework
- Create and maintain schedules for availability of various environment to optimise cost and utilisation
- Review the programme plans to ensure the IT Environments can meet demand and highlight any risks to relevant stakeholders if necessary
You are required to work a 37 hours based on an 5 day working week of 7.4 hours day. The working week is between 07:00and 19:00 Monday to Saturday. As far as possible your Line Manager will agree your working pattern(s) with you including any Saturday working however, there will be times when you are required to work additional hours and/or a late shift or at a weekend to accommodate operational needs or unplanned events. Where it is necessary for operational reasons to vary from your ‘normal’ working pattern(s) you will be notified by your manager in advance.
Required to be on an on-call rota.
At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your allocated office will be your contractual place of work. There will be a requirement to travel to the office for various activities e.g., collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues. If hybrid working is suitable for you and your role, the arrangements will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application. Please note that if you are successful, hybrid working will be discussed prior to taking up the post.
The post can be based in any of the advertised locations however, occasional travel to our Bootle HQ for workshops and team meetings will be required. For more details about HSE locations please see here.
Person specification
Essential Criteria:
- Demonstrable experience of delivering environment management services in a cloud based IT estate
- Delivered leadership, development, and continuous improvement of IT environments & platform management services for including but not limited to Azure and Dynamics
- Experience of managing release and deployment methodologies and tools (including modern approaches to deployment automation)
- Scripting (PowerShell or Python)
- Strong understanding of cloud environments, commercials and billing, ideally including Microsoft Azure
- Proven track-record of delivering solutions in a complex and demanding technical environment.
- Effective communication skills; with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and concisely.
- Experience in MS technology stack including Azure
Desirable:
- Experience implementing and supporting platforms with Azure
- Experience in project planning and forecasting
- Knowledge and insight into industry and technology challenges
- Experience of version control systems
- Good understanding and working experience in Agile way of working (DevOps based mode)
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Delivering at Pace
- Leadership
- Making Effective Decisions
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- Competitive rates of pay
- Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme to which HSE contribute 27.1%, far more than in the private sector.
- Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
- Carer friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture
- 25 days annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
- Parental leave benefits
Allowances
This post is eligible for Excess Fares Allowance. A successful internal candidate currently based at another office may be entitled to Excess Fares Allowance in line with HSE policy
(http://intranet/finance/expenses/excess-fares-allowance-policy.htm)
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Application information
As part of your application, you will be invited to complete an anonymised CV detailing your qualifications and employment history.
You will also be asked to complete a personal statement of no more than 500 words, which demonstrates your experience and why you are suitable for the role.
Application Guidance
Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply and how to complete a personal statement https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/how-to-apply/
Sift Information
A sift will take place during week commencing 27th February when you will be assessed on your CV and personal statement.
Interview Information
Interviews will take place via Microsoft Teams during week commencing 13th March when you will be assessed on the advertised behaviours as well as exploring your technical skills and experience from your CV and personal statement.
Please note that dependent on numbers of applications received these dates could be subject to change.
Further Information
Due to the nature of security checks undertaken, applicants must have 3 years continuous residency in the UK up to the date of the application and, Home Office approval for indefinite leave to remain within the UK.
Please note that a Reserve List will be held for the period of up to 12 months.
It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the terms and conditions they will adopt should they be successful in their application.
For a summary of HSE terms and conditions as part of Civil Service Reform, please see the attached document.
Any move to HSE from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at here.
If you have a disability and you need an application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please contact: [email protected]
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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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