Manager: DevSecOps Engineering - ESO

About the Role

The UK has set out its ambition to be net zero by 2050 and the energy industry is responding – together we are building a cleaner, greener Britain.

We are now looking for a Manager: DevSecOps Engineering to join our rapidly expanding capability! Reporting directly to the Agile DevSecOps Transformation Senior Manager, this role’s key objectives is to manage DevSecOps platform best practices and engineering to increase speed to value across programme delivery teams and accelerate our Agile DevSecOps transformation. 

We are looking for a hands-on DevSecOps Engineering Manager who has deep experience of DevOps & DevSecOps, with the ability to embed this into delivery teams through platform thinking. The role entails helping to define our DevSecOps strategy, tooling, and working cross-functionally to embed DevSecOps best practice into the organisation. It will also require leading of teams by influencing, assisting and collaborating with our communication lead to drive constant capability development and uniting people across the organization to keep them moving forward.

This role can be based from Wokingham or Warwick, and we continue to offer hybrid working from office and home.

About us

As Great Britain’s electricity system operator (ESO), we sit at the heart of the electricity system, using our outstanding engineering and commercial expertise to balance electricity supply and demand. Ultimately, we keep the electricity flowing directly to where it’s needed, second by second.

Becoming the Future System Operator
In 2021, government and Ofgem jointly consulted on proposals for an expert, impartial Future System Operator (FSO) with responsibilities across both the electricity and gas systems, to drive progress towards net zero while maintaining energy security and minimising costs for consumers. In October 2023, the Energy Act 2023 was passed, legislating for this Future System Operator to be created.  

The ESO, including all of its existing roles, will be at the heart of the new Future System Operator. We will be taking on additional roles across vectors and sectors to create an organisation with a whole energy system mindset; enabling us to identify solutions to our energy system that are more sustainable, secure, and affordable for all.  

The FSO will be set up as a public corporation with operational independence from government – bringing parties together to support optimised decision making and action. As now, it will be licenced and regulated by Ofgem through price control agreements. It is anticipated that the new organisation will be up and running in 2024.

The time to act on climate change is now. As part of our team, you won’t just be touching the lives of almost everyone in Great Britain – you’ll be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come.

Key Accountabilities

• Define and deploy DevOps & DevSecOps best practices to automate secure & resilient engineering practices across the business.
• Understand and navigate architectural & technology constraints to deliver consistency and improve Engineering performance.
• Understand DevSecOps toolsets, set strategic direction and work with the tooling team to create & integrate tools into CI/CD pipelines.
• Work cross-functionally with stakeholders to identify & understand IT controls and policies to automate them from a DevSecOps perspective. 
• Turn best practices into reusable self-service assets, allowing programme teams to pull value.
• Own the engineering framework & metrics, drive adoption & govern best practices across programme teams.
• Ongoing review of KPIs to track success of tools, course corrective activities and ongoing improvements to teams / users of Agile DevSecOps.

About You

• Experience with DevSecOps tools and capabilities, e.g. Azure DevOps, Jira, Bitbucket, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Cloudbees Jenkins, Jfrog Artifactory & Xray, OpenShift, Argo CD, Tekton, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.
• E2E pipelines setup for programme teams for application CI/CD.
• Setting up ADO Agents and Jenkins Agents on AKS cluster.
• Experience on deploying applications, infra & DevSecOps Tools on Azure services such as Azure ML, Azure App Services, Azure SQL, Azure VM’s, AKS, ACS, VMSS etc.
• Experience with container/orchestration approaches and tools, such as Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS) or Docker.
• Experience working with established DevSecOps related patterns and frameworks to ensure reuse, alongside creating improvements for the needs of the organisation.
• Communicates effectively (both written and oral) to a wide range of stakeholders and able to understand and translate requirements for stakeholders to convey this to DevSecOps colleagues.
• Expertise in cloud hosting environments, such as Azure, and experience implementing cloud-based services (e.g. Azure IaaS, PaaS services).
• Technical leadership and the ability to be hands on and contribute technically.
• Linux Scripting or any scripting experience such as python, PowerShell, or shell scripting.
• Experience with IaC such as Terraform on Azure.
• Bash/Python/Azure CLI Scripting Experience.

What You'll Get

A competitive salary between £65,000 – 85,000 – dependent on experience and capability.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus of up to 15% of your salary for stretch performance, 28 days annual leave as standard, and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.

You will also have access to a comprehensive benefits package tailored to support your well-being and professional success. From a competitive salary to flexible work arrangements, we promote your work-life balance. Enjoy fit for purpose wellbeing and lifestyle offerings, ongoing skill development aligned to our Purpose and Values, and be part of a supportive community that values your individuality and where you can belong.

More Information

This role closes on 05/05/2024 at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.

We work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office. 

We're committed to building a workforce that represents the communities we serve, and a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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