Closing date

06 Apr 2025

Salary

£57,000 to £63,000

Contract

Full Time

Hours

35

Location

Cardiff

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Under the overall management of the DevOps lead, undertake lead the DevOps team to provide platforms and infrastructure to support the delivery of software by our development teams, pro-actively manage the live cloud infrastructure, and drive forward the architectural vision for Hodge. Engage with internal and external stakeholders to drive continual improvement of DevOps and related practices.

Essential Experience:

• Previous experience in commercial software development / DevOps environment
• Knowledge of best practice and supporting tools throughout the Software Development lifecycle.
• Knowledge and experience using Terraform, Kubernates, AWS or similar cloud provision tools
• Knowledge of CI/CD approaches and tools
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies
• Experience supporting development of web services in a service-based architecture

Key responsibilities will include:

Architecture:

• Work with DevOps team to define and implement architectural vision and principles for our cloud infrastructure projects.
• Undertake detailed design work in line with architectural vision and principles
• Work with software and delivery teams to define, manage and implement DevOps vision across development and infrastructure projects.
• Understand and maintain all relevant documentation on work undertaken.
• Ensure work includes appropriate quality controls mechanisms (e.g. reliability patterns, health-checks and relevant monitoring).
• Understand core architectural patterns and frameworks used by Hodge.
• Engage with external suppliers to ensure platforms integrations align with agreed principles and standards.
• Understand key business processes that software supports.
• Understand the wider economic environment in which Hodge operates.

DevOps:

• Working as part of DevOps team, ensure that team activity is managed using appropriate Agile methodologies to ensure visibility, transparency and suitable metrics.
• Work with delivery teams to provide required environments and infrastructure to support project development and undertake delivery to live environments in line with agreed Service Transition processes.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of relevant frameworks, tools and languages.
• Work with delivery teams to ensure relevant defined NFRs (scalability, maintainability, recoverability) are implemented and tested.Ensure appropriate quality controls are embedded, adhered to and improved.
• Ensure appropriate documentation is maintained to support current and future activity.
• Review work and code of other team members to ensure quality standards are maintained and knowledge transfer.
• Work with IS Service Delivery and Development teams to assist in the investigation and resolution of live issues and to support BAU activity.
• Work with IS Service Delivery team to ensure Service Transition controls and documentation are provided in line with agreed Service Transition framework.
• Proactively manage usage and costs on cloud platforms to ensure best use is being made of resources
• Engage with third-parties as appropriate to implement best-practice in development and support of cloud platforms.

Continuous Improvement:

• Pro-actively improve team performance through formalised knowledge sharing.
• Pro-actively investigate technology landscape and best practise to identify improvements.
• Continuously review work practices to implement and refine Agile practices.
• Maintain a knowledge of current DevOps technologies and best practise to identify improvements.
• Engage with external parties and tech community to share and improve knowledge.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies to improve change and development practices.
• Understand and follow key Software and DevOps practices and processes.
• Progress formal training and certification in relevant technologies and disciplines.

Please be aware that should we pursue your application, all our Financial Services employees will be expected to complete background checks to assess suitability for employment, these include; a criminal record, identity, sanctions, adverse finance, fraud prevention and reference checks to comply with our regulatory requirements.

ESG and sustainability are at the heart of everything we do and serves as a reminder of the responsibility we have to our stakeholders, customers, colleagues and the communities we operate in to use our position wisely. We 're currently exploring different certifications available and have done an initial review of how we think we’d fare, as we see this as a real opportunity for Hodge given our social purpose.

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