Job Description

Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
Are you looking for work that makes a difference? Do you want to work with people who learn and grow together?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We're a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business.
The Role
You'll lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping open communication channels.
You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently.
You'll be keen to understand our clients' ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed.
Essential experience
We want you to have demonstrable experience in DevOps practices and appreciate that Cloud & Platform Engineering are big topics. Ultimately, we're looking for talented engineers who can learn modern technologies in the digital space.
In the interview, please show your experience in:
Designing, building, and testing software release processes that cover the entire SDLC.
Creating, modifying, and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines.
Creating dashboards and visualisations for application performance that proactively identify and address potential problems before they occur.
Using automated testing to detect security issues/vulnerabilities in application and/or infrastructure code, thereby detecting issues before it reaches production (aka Shift-Left).
Strong experience in operating and maintaining services primarily in any of the BIG three public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
Desirable experience
Some other areas of experience that are not essential but still relevant to the role:
Identifying problems using RCA or 5-Whys methods and suggesting solutions to reduce the likelihood of incidents reoccurring.
A strong understanding of cloud networking and security concepts.
Understanding the principles of containerisation, and how to control and orchestrate groups of containers in production environments.
Writing clean, organised, structured and version-controlled code.
Knowledge of at least one scripting language that enables you to perform more complex automation tasks thereby reducing manual toil.
Preference for using CLI tools over relying on web portals.
Understanding SRE (live services) ways of working, that enables you to better increase reliability and availability of the service you support.
Auditing your service for FinOps and SecOps related compliance issues.
Must be eligible for UK Security Clearance.
If you don't have all this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.
Salary
Consultant salary range: 51,000 - 60,000
What our offer includes
A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
Flexible hours and 25 days' holiday. Generous training budget.
People to support you every step of the way.
Where you'll work
Our approach is a mixture of working from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home, depending on the needs of your work.
We include you
We won't discriminate on age, disability, ethnicity, family status, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. We'll consider applicants from overseas.
Interview
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We'll make any adjustments to help you.
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Role tech stack
AWS


Microsoft Azure


Google Cloud Platform


Terraform


Kubernetes


Life at
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Culture overview
We want to provide our people with interesting work for organisations that matter to them - we give our people the best chance to grow with us.
Our people are honest, hardworking, open and confident - we are smart self-starters. We strive to protect our family culture and we're not big on hierarchy.
Our internal working groups ensure progressive change to our processes and practices, covering:
o Charity
o Environmental action
o Health and wellbeing
o Inclusive change
o Social committee
o Tech sector engagement
We offer an extensive social and wellbeing calendar providing something for everyone who wants to get involved in Opencast life.
We value and empower our people, doing right by them. We work flexibly and keep hierarchy to a minimum. Our benefits include generous annual leave, training and development, pension, and other financial perks.
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Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Company Car
Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Free Parking
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Pension
Share Options
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HACKATHONS
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SOCIAL EVENTS
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Leadership
David Sarginson
Head of Software Development
Tech overview
Software, digital, & technical delivery
Our software, digital and technical delivery teams work across the development lifecycle, with experienced scrum masters, product owners, business analysts, testers, front-end and back-end software developers. We work with customers to deliver agile transformation and improve ways of working. We have delivered multiple complex services to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards, from discovery through to live.
Architecture
Our growing digital architecture practice combines expertise in enterprise, solution and technical architecture. Our architects work collaboratively to create solutions in the context of our clients' existing technology estates. We advise on the components required to deliver a new service successfully in line with business goals.
DevOps, cloud & platform engineering
Our DevOps, cloud and platform engineering practice brings together leading engineers who are true experts, driving the adoption of a DevOps culture and the benefits of cloud computing. We focus on delivering cost savings, reducing time to market, improving scalability and flexibility, as well as enhancing the quality and security of our delivery.

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Engineering principles
AGILE PROCESS
CODE REVIEWS
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
MENTORING
MICRO SERVICES
PAIR PROGRAMMING
TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
UNIT TESTING
Company tech stack
Microsoft Azure


Java


Node.js


MySQL


Microsoft SQL server (MSSQL)


Spring Boot


Spring Data


Spring


Ruby on rails


Spring MVC


Adobe XD


Scalatra


Scala


Splunk


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