Job summary
Role title: WebOps Engineer
Location: Manchester
Reporting to the Lead WebOps Engineer, the WebOps Engineer will be responsible for:
- Building and configuring new secure server platforms, along with supporting automated tooling.
- Maintaining existing infrastructure and legacy environments, suggesting improvements and supporting migrations.
- Building the security of new and existing infrastructure in order to protect information from unauthorised access, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction.
- Being a continual learner, keeping up to date with modern infrastructure tools, technologies, security standards and protocols.
- Contributing to the engineering community of practise through sharing knowledge and skill, as well as collaborating with colleagues.
- Acting as a digital ambassador for NICE and DIT by sharing experiences through blog posts and engaging with the wider engineering and IT community.
- Working independently, having a high level of discipline to manage and take ownership of technical issues.
- Being able to analyse technical problems and advise appropriate solutions, sometimes faced with conflicting requirements.
- Being able to communicate highly complex technical issues and risks to non-technical business stakeholders external to the team, both verbally and written.
- Being able to influence senior technical engineers regarding the architecture and systems, often involving in-depth technical negotiations at team meetings and the DIT architecture forum.
Main duties of the job
To be considered for this role, we are looking for:
- Significant experience with the AWS platform.
- Experience working in, or with, a DevOps team.
- A good level of experience with common database technologies such as SQL and MySQL, along with NoSQL platforms like MongoDB.
- Good experience in the operational management of complex web application stacks running on the Windows server platform.
- Good knowledge of scripting and CLI tools, such as AWSCLI and Powershell.
- Experience with any infrastructure as a service and configuration management tools like Cloudformation, Terraform, Ansible etc.
- Familiarity with common web application network protocols, including TLS.
- Experience debugging complicated application stacks in a high availability environment.
- An understanding of common application deployment strategies, continuous integration and version control.
- An ability to rapidly acquire new skills, while being comfortable working with new technologies.
Although not essential, it would be great if you also had:
- Any experience using Azure
- Knowledge of Linux server environments
- An understanding of Serverless technology stacks
- Experience with logging platforms, such as the Elastic, Logstash and Kibana stack
- Any experience with writing and maintaining technical documentation, especially within collaborative environments
- History of working in a multidisciplinary team
About us
The Digital, Information and Technology (DIT) directorate is a 70 strong team of digital, information and technology professionals. Our digital teams adopt a user centric agile methodology and work in multi-disciplinary teams (MDT’s) with analytics and insight to develop and maintain NICE’s suite of digital and technology services. We are playing a key role in the implementation of NICE’s digital transformation programme.
The teams in DIT design, develop and maintain NICE’s suite of externally facing digital services including the NICE website, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, BNF and UK Pharmascan which together attract more than 2 million users a month.
The directorate is also responsible for NICE’s internal guidance production systems including content management, authoring and publishing systems, with a view to generating internal efficiencies and to ensure NICE takes advantage of digital innovations arising across the health and care landscape, such as machine learning and data science. As such DIT has a key role to play in keeping NICE’s guidance relevant, high-quality, up-to-date, and accessible.
For an informal discussion please contact Mark Perrett Lead Web Operations Engineer mark.perrett@nice.org.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are a flexible working employer and our teams mostly work remotely with occasional travel into our Manchester office.
We also welcome your application if youre looking for a part time role, with a general guide of 22.5 hours per week as a minimum.
Here at NICE we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.
Benefits:
- We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
- We provide a thorough induction programme
- Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities
- We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
- We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
- We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrate all essential criteria through the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are a flexible working employer and our teams mostly work remotely with occasional travel into our Manchester office.
We also welcome your application if youre looking for a part time role, with a general guide of 22.5 hours per week as a minimum.
Here at NICE we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.
Benefits:
- We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
- We provide a thorough induction programme
- Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities
- We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
- We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
- We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrate all essential criteria through the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Relevant degree or equivalent level of knowledge gained through experience and further training/development.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience with the AWS platform.
- Good experience in the operational management of complex web application stacks running on the Windows server platform
- A good level of experience with common database technologies such as SQL and MySQL, along with NoSQL platforms like MongoDB.
Desirable
- Experience with the Azure platform.
- Experience with Linux server environments
- Any experience with Serverless technology stacks.
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of scripting and CLI tools, such as AWSCLI and Powershell.
- Windows server platform knowledge, especially Windows Server 2016+
Desirable
- Knowledge of any infrastructure as a service and configuration management tools like Cloudformation, Terraform, Ansible etc
- Linux server platform knowledge
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Relevant degree or equivalent level of knowledge gained through experience and further training/development.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience with the AWS platform.
- Good experience in the operational management of complex web application stacks running on the Windows server platform
- A good level of experience with common database technologies such as SQL and MySQL, along with NoSQL platforms like MongoDB.
Desirable
- Experience with the Azure platform.
- Experience with Linux server environments
- Any experience with Serverless technology stacks.
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of scripting and CLI tools, such as AWSCLI and Powershell.
- Windows server platform knowledge, especially Windows Server 2016+
Desirable
- Knowledge of any infrastructure as a service and configuration management tools like Cloudformation, Terraform, Ansible etc
- Linux server platform knowledge
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
