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West Midlands Police
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Birmingham, West Midlands
DevOps Engineer
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Grade: Band E Salary: 41.739 to 49,023 Closing Date: 22nd June 2020 About the Role: Are you ready to make a real difference to citizens of the West Midlands? Be at the heart of UK Policing's most ambitious technology transformation - use your technical skills to prevent crime, protect the public, and help those in need. West Midlands Police is undertaking a period of unparalleled change and innovation; Technology is pivotal to both maintaining operational capabilities and building future success. As a DevOps Engineer you will be working within the Cloud Services Team, initially managing an AWS based big data analytics solution. You will be ambitious to drive the adoption of more services leveraging the benefits of public cloud, working alongside a dedicated team of developers and operations professionals to support policing with cutting edge technical solutions. We'd really welcome your application if: * You are a great team player, but can also work independently * You bring a wealth of ideas and enthusiasm * You understand how to build reliable and scalable services * You have experience developing and supporting cloud and on-premise infrastructure (including design, capacity planning, cost optimisation, deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting) * You have experience in using a software development methodology to manage infrastructure * You have experience with REST APIs and web services * You can manage a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins or similar tooling * You have experience in orchestration / automation tools such as Cloud Formation, Ansible, Puppet etc. * You can manage a large Hadoop platform, including MapReduce, YARN, Impala, Spark, Solr, HBase etc. * You are a competent in coding / scripting * You have a detailed knowledge of information security within a public cloud environment The community we serve within the West Midlands is fantastically diverse. West Midlands Police is an equal opportunities employer, meaning we value diversity and shape our workforce to best match and reflect the people we serve. You will be part of an already incredibly diverse and balanced team in terms of skill sets, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability status and ethnic background. The strong team ethos helps us deliver on our departmental mission statement in "Enabling WMP to serve our communities through innovative and empowering technology." Degree or equivalent. West Midlands Police are currently undertaking a long term review of staff pay and conditions. The grade, pay and other terms of employment are therefore subject to review and may change in the future. West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview. "Diversity and Inclusion Vision: Maximise the potential of people from all backgrounds through a culture of fairness and inclusion to deliver the best service for our communities"