Senior DevOps Engineer

Job description:

Overview

IT Services at the University of Sheffield provide a full range of complex IT and technology-enabled services that support education, research, workplace, corporate services and infrastructure enablers to all our staff and students. This large and highly innovative department is undergoing a significant amount of change as it establishes itself as a key enterprise IT partner that works across the University, with stakeholders and key partners to deliver enterprise-wide products and services in line with strategic aims.

Our main focus for the future is:

• Build more services in AWS and increase our automation for server setup and code deployments
• Improve resilience in the design of our services and hosting to deal with more recent challenges and threats to our services
• Put in place good practice to help our developers with designing and hosting systems in better ways

Main duties and responsibilities

Our team’s responsibilities include:

• Providing DevOps support to developers across the department. Manage and develop Continuous Integration pipelines and tooling, including Jenkins, Github Enterprise and Jira
• Work across our on premise and AWS estate
• Designing and maintaining the hosting for a number of critical systems including our single sign on infrastructure, student record system and integration tooling.
• Designing, implementing and managing the hosting of all systems run by the team so they are resilient and performant enough for our 40,000+ staff and student users (plus the general public who use our systems too)
• Automating deployment processes where we can to ensure reliable deployments to production services
• Configuration of servers using Apache, NGINX, PulseSecure Virtual Traffic Managers, Tomcat, Oracle technologies and a range of other technologies as required
• Learning about the latest tools, techniques and frameworks and share that knowledge with other teams we collaborate with
• Designing and planning the future direction of our infrastructure and hosting platforms
• You may be required to carry out other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post.

More details can be found on our benefits page: sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/benefits (opens in a new window).

We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you have a disability and meet the essential criteria for this job you will be invited to take part in the next stage of the selection process.

Criminal record

A basic DBS check will be needed for this role. More details on the checks can be found on the Government website: gov.uk/criminal-record-checks-apply-role (opens in a new window).

Possession of a criminal record is not an automatic bar to employment at the University of Sheffield. We recognise the value of steady employment in the rehabilitation process and examine each case in its own right. More information can be found on our Information for candidates page:- sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/candidates (opens in a new window).

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