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As a vital part of NHS Scotland, NHS National Services Scotland’s (NSS) mission is to enable and support the delivery of better health and better care, working in partnership. We do this by providing a range of specialised support services that enable NHS Boards to focus their efforts on delivering health improvement and patient care.
As part of the Digital and Security (DaS) Strategic Business Unit supporting NSS and the wider NHS, Health Boards, Scottish Government and other Public Services across Scotland, The Cloud Engineering & Operations function are looking to recruit a Principal Engineer to join the expanding Cloud Engineering team.
The expansion is driven by an exciting transformation as part of the DaS platform modernisation programme developing a best in class Enterprise cloud capability to meet the increasing demand for digital services to services our customers throughout Scotland.
Responsibilities
- Application Infrastructure Development in Cloud services, Azure desirable
- Platform Engineering, automation and DevOps operational experience
- Technical leadership in architecture, development and deployment of Azure based solutions
- Develop IP, best practices and knowledge assets to be re-usable and shared across NSS community
- Embed DevOps practices and automation into delivery
- Actively contribute to a culture of high performance, innovation and continuous improvement.
Education and Experience
- Hands on experience in developing and deploying enterprise solutions, with Linux-based technology stack
- Comfortable working in a mixed Linux / Microsoft environment
- Hands on experience in designing and deploying solutions on Microsoft Azure platform
- Experience with public cloud platforms, including design and implementation
- Appropriate certifications in Azure and associated technologies (desirable)
General Requirements
- Strong experience with Microsoft Azure services, including understanding their capabilities and limitations and being able to architect and deliver solutions leveraging various Azure platform services
- Experience in implementing applications using cloud platforms
- Experienced in working in Agile/DevOps environment with continuous integration and continuous deployment and application lifecycle management
- A solid understanding of IP networking in the cloud / familiarity with complex networking environments
- Experience working with the following toolsets (or similar)
- Azure DevOps or Jenkins
- Gitlab
- Terraform
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Ubuntu
- Ansible
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits.
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Stephen Grant (DaS Cloud Manager) on 0131 275 7545 or stephen.grant@nhs.scot.
Further information on NSS is available from: https://www.nss.nhs.scot/
Closing date for completed applications is 08 February 2022.
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).
NHS National Services Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies.