Lead DevOps Engineer
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What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's Digital Services Team is seeking to appoint a suitable qualified individual as the Lead Dev ops engineer responsible for leading and managing the Dev ops function and team within Northumbria Healthcare Trust delivering on a range of systems with the Digital Services department.
This will include the management of Backend and Frontend Infrastructure in Azure and AWS environments.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job- As the Lead Dev ops Engineer you will be responsible for defining processes that our dev ops function follows
- You will work closely with Project Managers/Product Owners to provide insight towards new development work
- Deliver agreed changes within budget and timescale. Ensure rotation between functions to ensure variety share of system knowledge between staff.
- You will be responsible for resourcing the team correctly and ensuring accurate estimates are provided.
- You will also work with the Head Of Development to expand the resourcing within the team and assist with interviewing new team members
- You will be actively involved in delivering on Devops projects, writing infrastructure as code and setting up CI/CD pipelines.
- Be part of the Agile development process to assist with resourcing and estimations
- You will be working on existing and green field solutions that use the latest technologies.
- You will operate in a cloud first development environment and we would look to you to introduce new tools/approaches to improve development lifecycle.
- Remove blockers to delivery and escalate issues when appropriate
- Assist with evaluating and validating candidate processes against the business strategy and suitability for development
- Operational accountability for the delivery of infrastructure solutions to agreed timescales
- Responsible for tracking and reporting of performance and benefits to all stakeholders
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.
High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- You will have experience of working in a devops environment and either experience of a similar role or being a hands on devops engineer looking to move into a more senior leadership role. You will have extensive knowledge of Terrafrom as a way to deploy infrastructure as code.
- Your primary focus is to provide leadership and line management to any devops engineer who are working on new projects and supporting existing services. You will work collaboratively to define common approaches to infrastructure provisioning, management and monitoring. You will ensure development standards are documented and maintained by the team.
- Within your role, you will be developing the teams' adoption of agile ways of working alongside, Product Owners, Project Managers, and Business Analysts. You will be successful in supporting teams to adopt new tools and approaches to development and continue to change as the organisation expands its portfolio of internally developed systems.
- Development teams main tech stacks/approaches are .NET / React / Azure / Azure DevOps but knowledge of AWS and other tech stacks and hosting models is also essential.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent experience plus in-depth technical and strategic knowledge.
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria- Experience working with Agile and Scrum Teams
- Previous experience managing a development team
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Other requirements
Essential criteria- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.