Contractor job REF SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER

HOURS: Full Time 

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term (Concluding Dec 2029) 

LOCATION: Bristol (Hybrid)

ABOUT US

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, with the most recent exercise concluding in 2021. It is a peer review assessment process involving submissions from higher education institutions across the UK.  Research England delivered REF 2021 on behalf of the four UK funding bodies and the results have driven the annual distribution of approximately £2 billion of research funding to UK universities.

MAIN OUTPUTS

Availability and capacity management. Ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures, identifying capacity issues, stipulating the required changes and instigating these. You know how to initiate remedial action. 

Development process optimisation. Analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes, and lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements. Help to evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy and standards. 

Information security. You know about information security and can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services. 

Modern standards approach. You have a strong understanding of and can apply the most appropriate, modern standards and practices. You know how to take responsibility for coaching and guiding others. 

Prototyping. You approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You can establish design patterns and iterate them. You can use a variety of methods of prototyping and choose the most appropriate ones. 

Service support. You can demonstrate a breadth of understanding of service support. You can identify, locate and fix faults. 

Systems integration. You can define the integration build. You can coordinate build activities across systems and understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities. 

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

• Experience of Securely building infrastructure within the AWS cloud using AWS technologies such as lambda, S3, EC2, ECS, IAM, EBS, Elastic Beanstalk, Route53, SES, RDS, Elasticache, Autoscaling, Load balancers, VPC, etc...
• Building and configuring new server platforms and infrastructure, using IaC tools - Terraform (essential), Cloudformation, Ansible
• Working experience of databases, such as Oracle/PL­SQL, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Strong scripting and language skills i.e. Ruby, Bash, Python, JS, Go ...
• Experience of core technologies such as containerization (docker), container orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS)
• Identification and development of resources to establish a sustainable internal capability for long term DevOps and hosting needs.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 

DEVELOPING TALENT:

We are committed to developing employees in their roles throughout their career. Learning and development plans enable employees to continue their professional development through training and development opportunities such as e-learning, classroom training and on-the-job experiences. We encourage our employees to share their learning across teams and organisations.

BENEFITS:

UKRI can offer the successful candidate:

- Flexible Working

- 30 days annual leave + Public Holidays

- Access to Civil Service Pension Scheme

- Various everyday discounts through our dedicated provider