Use your DevOps skills to make a direct impact on society. At the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), we are committed to transforming lives by helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing. We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer to join our team and build the highly available services that make this crucial mission possible.
Working with our architects and development teams, you will be central to designing, building, and maintaining our deployment pipelines and environments. Your expertise will directly empower our delivery teams and advance the DevOps practices that allow us to help millions of people achieve financial stability.
This role is aligned with DDaT – Development operations (DevOps) engineer – DevOps engineer: DevOps engineer - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
You’ll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Design and development of our deployment pipelines and automation solutions using Azure and open-source tooling.
Design, build and maintain environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Engage collaboratively in an agile environment, working closely with solution architects, technical leads and developers.
Implementation of services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
Contribute to low level design and maintain documentation.
Peer reviewing IaC developed as part of our workflow.
Able to self manage including keeping technical knowledge up to date.
Promoting collaborative working, efficiencies and knowledge transfer.
Actively participating within the wider community of practice; advocating DevOps best practices and sharing knowledge/experience.
Engaging with external delivery partners as appropriate.
Skills Needed For The Role Level:
Availability and capacity management. You can manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets. (Skill level: working)
Development process optimisation. You can explain the importance of developing process efficiency and the common ways in which processes are optimised, can support specific activities to improve development processes and identify obvious deficiencies (Skill level: awareness)
Information security. You can design solutions and services with security controls included, specifically engineered to mitigate security threats. (Skill level: practitioner)
Modern standards approach. You can explain the most important principles of modern development standards and how they apply to your work and apply apply modern development standards principles under guidance (Skill level: working)
Programming and build (software engineering). You can collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications. You can use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools. (Skill level: practitioner)
Prototyping. You can 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 prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate. (Skill level: practitioner)
Service support. You can identify, locate and fix complex service faults. (Skill level: practitioner)
Systems design. You can produce detailed designs and translate logical designs into physical designs, effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools including prototyping tools where appropriate. You can design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact and work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns. (Skill level: working)
Systems integration. You can build and test simple interfaces between systems and work on more complex integration as part of a wider team. (Skill level: working)
User focus. You can identify and engage with users or stakeholders to collate user needs evidence, understand and define research that fits user needs and use quantitative and qualitative data about users to turn user focus into outcomes. (Skill level: working)
About Us
The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is based in Bedford, in a recently renovated modern office. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to become an integral part of a dynamic organisation, working to help people across the UK.
At The Heart Of The Money And Pensions Service Are Our Values – Caring, Connecting, And Transforming, Which Are The Foundation Of Our Success. They Permeate Every Area Of Our Work And Define All Our Business Relationships And The Way We Work With Each Other. We’re Not Only Looking For The Best People To Come And Work For Us, But We Need People Who Align Themselves With Our Values:
Caring We care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform.
Connecting We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections.
Transforming We are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.
Our Inclusive Working Environment
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds. We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity, and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”
Our colleague and ally networks encompass LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health, ethnicity, and diversity.
At The Heart Of The Money And Pensions Service Are Our Values – Caring, Connecting, And Transforming, Which Are The Foundation Of Our Success. They Permeate Every Area Of Our Work And Define All Our Business Relationships And The Way We Work With Each Other. We’re Not Only Looking For The Best People To Come And Work For Us, But We Need People Who Align Themselves With Our Values:
Caring We care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform.
Connecting We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections.
Transforming We are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.
Our Inclusive Working Environment
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds. We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity, and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”
Our colleague and ally networks encompass LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health, ethnicity, and diversity.
Person specification
You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience.
Essential
Demonstrable experience in the build and optimisation of pipelines (ideally in Azure DevOps).
Experience working with Cloud Services such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
Coding background, with experience in a language such as Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, React or PowerShell.
Demonstrable commitment to high quality, robust engineering practices.
Experience working within an agile development team.
Experience of productive collaboration with design, testing, product and other digital delivery colleagues.
Desirable
Experience with JavaScript and building/deploying/scaling React-based applications (or similar).
Experience in provisioning and managing infrastructure through IaC (e.g. BiCep, terraform).
Experience working within a monorepo environment and tooling such as NX or turborepo.
Experience working with PaaS products such as Netlify or Vercel.
Experience with bash scripting.
Experience with git version control.
Experience in a DevOps or senior developer role.
Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary)
Interest-free loan for season tickets for buses and trains
Cycle to work Scheme
Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
Life assurance scheme
Give as you earn scheme
Employee assistance programme (EAP)
PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
Enhanced family and sick pay
Paid volunteering (2 days a year)
Recognition Scheme
Discounts portal to numerous retailers
Flexible Working
At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. As standard, we work on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and our headquarters in Bedford will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs, but personal and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
Career Development
In MaPS, we take career development seriously. We actively encourage and support applications from our existing MaPS colleagues. However, we do follow the Civil Service Commissioner recruitment principles, which means that you will be required to participate in a full, open, and fair process.
Selection process details
Reserve List
If you are successful at interview, we operate a reserve list where your details will be held for up to 6 months. Should a vacancy come available in that time with the same essential criteria, reserve list candidates will be offered that position with no further assessment required.
Application Process
The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Money and Pensions Service via email: [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
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
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
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.
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
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.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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