Job ref: 155513
TPR grade: TDD 7 – Lead Specialist
About us
More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.
Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.
It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.
Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.
We operate a hybrid working model, subject to government guidelines, where regular attendance in our Brighton office is required. Attendance in the office is team and role dependent.
Role
Our Digital, Data and Technology department is driving transformation at TPR to deliver positive outcome for savers across the UK. Our DevOps team is a hands-on technical team enabling the growth and development of our technologies, implementing fast and effective change.
As a DevOps Engineer, you will work across teams to deliver the business value from TPR’s cloud-first strategy. You will do this by increasing business agility through the reduction of delivery timelines and the optimisation and automation of IT infrastructure platforms.
You will design, develop, build and automate Continuous Improvement (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines to streamline IT solutions delivery for business programs. This includes cloud environments, automations, DevOps toolsets and development of Infrastructure as Code principles.
We can support you with your growth and development by providing training through Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative, Pluralsight and Udemy, keeping you up to date with the latest technologies.
Responsibilities
You will:
- automate workloads and development pipelines across multiple business programs and teams
- proactively engage and drive collaboration across multiple technical groups, project teams and external service providers to ensure DevOps pipeline designs, builds, toolsets and practices achieve delivery efficiencies for companywide programs including testing automation and security by design
- lead collaboration across technical and business groups to develop and implement DevOps solutions and best practices to achieve long term operational cost reductions
- support migration of IT infrastructure into Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud computing models introducing Infrastructure as Code principles and tools
- oversee the estimation and prioritisation of work items to achieve the best outcome
- engages with business users to gather information regarding systems defects and requirements for change
- mentors and guides fellow engineers in technical skills and the application of DevOps practices and development methodologies
- review others’ code and identify problems and risks and feed these back effectively
- maintain a keen technical awareness and show a willingness to learn and develop skills
- contribute to the IT community by sharing experience and knowledge and updating documentation
Essential and desirable criteria
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate experience using CI and CD tooling to create, build and release processes for different types of applications in a predominantly .NET ecosystem, including solving complex CI problems (for example, Azure DevOps, TFS, TeamCity, Ansible, Jenkins).
- Good experience of collaborating across teams to investigate, diagnose and fix problems using creative thought processes within large-scale IT systems, and ability to identify, design and deliver long term improvements in DevOps efficiencies.
- Good experience with configuring management and workflow automation tools (for example, Terraform and PowerShell DSC).
- Good experience and understanding of using Agile methodologies to plan, develop, test and deliver software through the value stream.
- Working knowledge of MS Azure technologies including experience designing CD for Azure App Services.
- Working knowledge of automated testing tooling such as Selenium, particularly in their use in continuous integration.
- Strong communications and collaboration skills to enable multi team design, delivery and problem solving.
Desirable
- Knowledge of PowerShell, C#, .Net framework and SQL.
- Familiarity with orchestration systems and containerisation, for example, Kubernetes, Docker.
- ITIL experience and/or certification.
Person specification
- Proactive and flexible.
- Can do approach.
- Problem solving and analytical skills.
- Communication skills at all levels.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Personable and a teammate.
Salary and benefits
As well as a salary between £63,829 and £81,560, we offer:
- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
- discretionary bonus arrangements
- access to performance related pay progression
- 25 days annual leave provision
- flexible working arrangements
- development opportunities
- enhanced parental leave arrangements
- a free employee assistance programme
- an excellent office location in Brighton
How to apply
To apply please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk quoting role reference number 155513 along with:
- a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements
- a copy of your CV
- details of your notice period
Current employees in their first 12 months of employment who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.
We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention and development of people with disabilities and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the job will be offered an interview.
Applications will be considered on a part time and job share basis.
In accordance with Home Office guidance, the successful candidate will be required to provide their right to work in the UK before they start employment. Unfortunately, TPR is not able to offer sponsorship at the time. TPR is a UK-based organisation with a working location in Brighton, candidates must live in the UK to be employed by us.
The Pensions Regulator is an arm’s length government body and part of the public service.
Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory background screening checks and criminal record checks (BPSS).
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk.