Dev Ops Engineer x2
Salary: Band D STEM 1 £42,840 per annum
Hours: Full time (We understand the importance of work-life balance and are happy to discuss the possibility of flexible working).
Contract Type: Fixed Term (3 years)
Location: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington
The post requires a National Security Vetting clearance to “SC” level, a key requirement for which is that you will typically need to have been resident in the UK for at least five years. For further details, please refer to: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/united-kingdom-security-vetting
About us
The Hartree Centre helps UK businesses and organisations of any size to explore and adopt supercomputing, data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for enhanced productivity, smarter innovation and economic growth. Backed by significant UK government funding and strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as IBM, Atos and the University of Liverpool, the Hartree Centre is home to some of the most advanced digital technologies and experts in the UK.
At the Hartree Centre we want to see UK businesses outperform their global competitors, create skilled jobs and push the boundaries of digital innovation. Our experts collaborate with industry and the research community to explore the latest emerging technologies, upskill teams, and apply practical digital solutions to individual and industry-wide challenges for societal and economic benefit.
The Hartree Centre is part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) – one of Europe's largest multi-disciplinary scientific research organisations – within UK Research and Innovation, building on the wealth of established scientific heritage and a network of international expertise to help the UK stay at the forefront of pioneering computational science and digital innovation. The Hartree Centre is ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified, and our professional and operational expertise are just as important to us as our research and innovation excellence.
The role
We’re looking for two Dev Ops Engineers to join the Hartree Centre to help UK businesses and organisations of any size adopt advanced computing to increase their productivity, innovation, and economic growth. Hartree Centre experts collaborate with a range of industries and research communities to exploit the latest digital technologies, to upskill teams, and to develop innovative solutions for societal and economic benefit. By joining our team, you will be exposed to the very latest emerging technologies in Data Engineering & Analytics, AI, HPC, Cloud, Io T/Edge, and Web.
Backed by significant UK government funding and strategic partnerships, Hartree is well-established and is home to some of the most advanced digital technologies and experts in the UK. You will help develop and administer cloud compute resources on-premise at Hartree and in the public cloud including Openshift/stack, K8s, and security services such as Keycloak.
Benefits
STFC values their employees by offering a benefits package designed to provide an excellent work/life balance. This includes 30 days’ annual leave, 10.5 public and privilege holidays, flexible working hours, exceptional average salary pension scheme, social and sporting activities and societies and a subsidised restaurant.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Working effectively within and developing solutions that comply with Hartree Centre policies and procedures.
• Writing well structured, tested, readable and maintainable code in small agile teams.
• Participating in code reviews, refactoring, and presenting your work in knowledge exchange sessions.
• Deploying & scaling apps and services on-premises and in the public cloud using CI/CD pipelines and managing your work using Git.
• Administering on-premise & public cloud resources including Open Shift/Stack, K8s, Ia C, data processing pipelines & workflows.
• Creating high-quality documentation, reports, case studies, and web content.
• Use case analysis, requirements capture, and project planning.
• Providing support to internal staff, end users, and external customers

Person Specification

• A degree in a STEM field with a significant software and systems development aspect.
• Applied Dev Ops experience in business or academic sectors with genuine passion for Dev Ops and technology.
• Software dev experience using a Unix/Linux based operating system in at least two general-purpose languages e.g., Python, C++, Go, Java Script, Java.
• Applied experience in at least one of:
  • Full-stack development of web applications & enterprise services/APIs.
  • Computational workflows, containerisation, & data engineering.
  • AI/ML Ops and associated software stacks e.g. Kueue, Kubeflow, Keycloak, K8s distros.
• Knowledge of best practices in software management & deployment e.g., Version control, documentation, testing, containers & registries, software packaging and dependency, CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and written skills e.g. delivering presentations/playbacks, training, collecting requirements, authoring technical docs.
• Strong ability to understand the perspective of our customers.

Join us and discover what’s possible!