Lead WebOps Engineer (WebOps/DevOps)

Job Summary

Join our Digital and Technology directorate as a Lead Engineer at Companies House! We're looking for a dynamic leader with strong technical skills to support and enhance our systems. You'll focus on service availability, problem-solving, and root cause analysis, working within a collaborative team environment.

Job Description

As part of our team, you'll help maintain our impressive 99.5% availability target, working on system upgrades, automation, and service improvements. Our IT estate has recently migrated to AWS, and we're undergoing a major transformation to align with new legislative powers.

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Responsibilities

• Lead technical initiatives and contribute to long-term operational strategy.
• Coach and mentor IT professionals.
• Network with stakeholders to drive improvements.
• Enhance system infrastructure, tooling, and performance monitoring.
• Participate in the on-call rota to ensure 24/7 service availability.

Requirements

Experience:

• Incident/problem resolution and root cause analysis.
• Coding and scripting for problem resolution.
• IT environment experience, preferably in Ops.
• Leading technical teams.
• Automation of manual processes.
• Performance monitoring for web services and APIs.
• Coaching colleagues on non-functional requirements.
• Continuous improvement activities.

Technical Skills:

• Unix/Linux support or development.
• DevOps technologies.
• Continuous Delivery methods.
• Cloud infrastructure support.
• Database querying.
• Coding in AWS, Java, Terraform, Concourse, Ansible, Docker, JSON, SQL, GIT, Tibco iProcess, Doc1.

Behaviours:

• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving
• Developing Self and Others

Benefits

Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture with a fantastic benefits package, including:

• Flexible working with no core hours
• 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays, and 1 privilege day
• Civil Service Pension scheme with a 28% contribution rate

Join us and help drive our digital services and culture forward!

This advert closes 20th May 2025.