Development Ops Engineer – AWS, MS Azure or Google public cloud platforms

About Smart DCC

Every one of the 30 million homes and small businesses in Great Britain are set to have intelligent gas and electricity smart meters installed by 2020. Perhaps one of the most ambitious, challenging and exciting projects of its kind in the world, the building of the smart metering network will be a catalyst for the most significant, expansive and innovative changes to the energy sector in decades.

The Data and Communications Company (DCC) was created to lead the successful delivery of this vital new national infrastructure, with highly secure and reliable communications and data services to connect smart meters with energy suppliers, network operators and authorised third parties.

This smart metering network will help Great Britain become a global leader in smart energy.

Smart DCC operates as a client on behalf of the energy industry, designing and developing a solution which it then procures, implements and performance manages on its behalf.

What you’ll be doing

The purpose of the role is to provide Cloud expertise and DevOps cloud support for Smart DCC.

Key accountabilities

• To be the subject matter expert DevOps engineer within the Enterprise IT Cloud Platforms Team.
• Design assurance of service provider DevOps process, SDLC pipeline and high and low level designs in support of the DCC’s ‘cloud first’ strategy.
• Hands on deployment and support of the DCC’s cloud hosted environments as required.
• Delivering automation, patching, scripts and alerting configuration within Smart DCCs cloud environments.
• Manage and maintain Smart DCC’s code pipeline and DevOps tooling.
• To work with Smart DCC’s partners to translate solutions designs into infrastructure as code.
• To run and assure the use of DevOps methodologies in support of the DCC’s ‘cloud first’ strategy  

Key Relationships

• Enterprise IT Director
• DCC office of the CISO
• DCC CTO Enterprise architecture team
• DCC CTO solution practice team
• DCC and SP Operational support teams
• DCC Demand and Capacity management
• DCC BCDR function
• DCC Programme and release teams
• Key internal/external customers such as:
• Security Team
• Technical Operations Centre
• Finance
• Operations
• Public Cloud Providers
• Amazon (AWS)
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• A number of Communications service providers (CSPs), Data service providers (DSPs) and IT service providers

In this role, you’ll have the following:

• AWS certified solution architect associate certification (or similar level certification on MS Azure or Google public cloud platforms
• Understanding and experience in using cloud platform propriety platform services and tooling including at a minimum

• Networking concepts ( e.g VPCs, NACLs, Routing, ELBs, Direct Connect)
• Compute, Storage (e.g S3, EFS, etc.)
• Database Services (e.g RDS, DynamoDB, etc.)
• Security roles, groups and policies
• Lambda, CloudFormation, JSON, YAML, Shell scripts, PowerShell
• Microservices and containerisation
• Security – understanding best practices and how to secure cloud resources
• CloudWatch, Config, CloudTrail, SNS, Log Aggregation concepts, backup
• Expert level in Linux and Linux automation
• Good working knowledge of Windows Server operating systems and Windows automation.
• Guacamole Bastion servers.

• Infrastructure and deployment automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins.
• Using Source Control tools i.e. Git, AWS Code Commit.
• Experience of using Azure DevOps and managing the SDLC pipeline.
• Understanding of 3-tier architecture concepts and design.

• Understands key technology risks / issues and mitigations.
• Good knowledge of and adherence to security principles when deploying to cloud platforms.
• Knowledge and experience of cloud well architected frameworks and adoption principles
• Industry experience
• Knowledge and experience of cloud Well Architected frameworks and adoption principles.
• Good knowledge of the UK’s Smart metering solution and systems.
• Good knowledge of SEC and DCC License Conditions, and solution compliance requirements.
• Stakeholder management.
• Presentation skills.

Person Specification

• Team Player who is Proactive and Self-sufficient
• Able to deal effectively with high levels of complexity, at pace.
• Customer focussed and approachable
• Able and willing to own and manage activity from concept to deployment
• Able to apply effective strategies to identify quick and effective paths to resolution for relevant issues
• Able to work effectively with all levels of the organization
• Willingness to go above and beyond on occasion to ensure the ‘job gets done’

What’s in it for you?

• A great salary
• 25 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• a discretionary annual bonus / car allowance or company car if applicable for the role
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

What we hope you’ll do next:

Looking to discover more? choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application and send us your CV.

All interviews, assessments and background checks will continue to take place online, to completely remove the need for face-to-face contact. All Capita colleagues who can work from home should do so; and where it is not possible for colleagues to work remotely, we have taken important steps to protect those working from Capita’s offices. Social distancing, enhanced hygiene and safety measures are already in place at all Capita locations that are open to protect our colleagues and manage the risk of COVID-19. The welfare of our people is of paramount importance to us, and we’re doing everything we can to keep our colleagues and customers safe during this time.

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.