DevOps Engineer at Dept for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

UKRI launched in April 2018, and is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Our organisation brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England, which is responsible for supporting research and knowledge exchange at higher education institutions in England, and the UK 's innovation agency, Innovate UK. Together we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.

We require a DevOps engineer to deliver and integrate software to form a complete DevOps toolchain. A sizable part of this role will be managing and overseeing our DevOps capabilities for the UKRI website and Council microsites.

As a DevOps Engineer your main responsibilities would be: 

• Defining, implementing, managing and maintaining the hosting environments required to support UKRIs strategic objectives for platforms and hosting.
• Working with suppliers and other stakeholders as necessary to ensure fit for service architecture and processes are implemented.
• Building effective relationships with third party suppliers and employees.
• Transforming technical requirements into DevOps processes.
• Building complex stories without additional support.
• Identifying and resolving issues preventing delivery.

You’ll have:

• A strong DevOps background and demonstratable experience in previous similar roles.
• Knowledge and experience of AWS and CloudFront.
• Extensive experience of Agile software development and working in SCRUM teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.