Lead DevOps Engineer | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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.

• 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

We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

• 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.

This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Mar 2025