DevOps Automation Lead

Location: Basingstoke, On Site 5 days per week Mon-Fri

Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As a Lead DevSecOps Engineer you will contribute to this by driving the technical delivery of the DevSecOps (CI/CD pipelines and integrated security tooling) and associated processes, ensuring these are delivered and utilised in the most effective way.  

Fujitsu strongly believes in investing in its people and will support you in driving your career forwards, undertaking training, and certifications in relevant skills and technologies.

The role will sit in our, Digital function which promises exciting opportunities, use of cutting-edge technologies and a culture that encourages innovation, nurtures talent and drives delivery excellence. It provides the right candidate with an exciting career path and real opportunity to not only grow themselves but to influence the business as we work together to bring our Defence customers into the digital age.

On the project, this role will report into (and support) the DevSecOps Tech Lead (MSL) and will lead the engineers, to drive scrum teams’ adoption of the DevOps toolchain. This team is widely recognised as an exciting and inspiring team, driving positive change on one of DNS’s most critical and technologically advanced programmes, this role provides excellent customer exposure and a real opportunity to catapult your career forwards.

Owns significant parts of the Solution, Development of automation scripts, writes Build Automation scripts (Ansible) and IaC (Terraform), configures and builds CI/CD pipelines. Advises on use of DevOps Tooling, best practices and secure engineering processes. Works with DevOps delivery team to understand roadmap and processes. Works with the Customer to ensure that DevOps adoption is aligned to Engineering process.

Preferably experienced at working in an agile, sprint-based lifecycle. Experienced with both Windows and Linux operating systems. 

Work closely with the DevSecOps Tech Lead (MSL), Managed Service Teams and Engineering Process Lead to drive the usage and implementation of DevOps tooling to facilitate secure build and test automation.

Develop, and document re-usable automation scripts and IaC artefacts to assist various teams on the project in their deliveries. 

Act as an evangelist and advisor on the use of DevOps tools and Automation technologies.

Your role will involve 

• Responsible for the significant aspects of the technical implementation, delivery and assurance of the DevSecOps tooling, associated processed and ways of working.
• Leading Technical Implementation and design activities, making Design decisions and assessing options.
• Advising on use of DevSecOps technologies and processes, to senior customers.
• Works with DevSecOps Tech Lead (MSL)., Product Owners and Scrum Master to define/prioritise work and raise Risks/Dependencies.
• Works with DevSecOps Tech Lead (MSL) to ensure the DevSecOps implementation satisfies its requirements and ensuring it aligns to the Business Outcomes and security needs.
• Mentoring junior engineers and making implementation decisions.
• Contribution to Planning the work for the team.
• Reporting on progress and tracking this with Solution Owner.
• Defines Support Approach working with Service/Support Team.
• Engages with other teams on the usage of the tooling and dependency management.

Your Transferable Skills And Experience:

Key Skills

Significant experience in the Implementation / Configuration / Usage in a number of the following -

• CI/CD Pipelines, ideally Azure DevOps
• IaC code tooling, including Terraform, Ansible, Harbor
• SCA/IAST/DAST tooling, e.g. Black Duck, Coverity, Codesight, JFrog, Snyk
• Automated Test tooling, ideally Selenium / Robot Framework
• Test Management Tooling ideally Azure Test Plans 
• Secure Secrets Management, ideally Azure DevOps and Hashicorp Vault
• Version control with Git

General

• Software Development Background
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• DevSecOps tooling and practices
• Technical Leadership

This role will require you to be eligible and willing to undergo a high level of security clearance.

Your Benefits:

26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)

Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%

Life Assurance

Companywide Incentive Plans

Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays/ travel/ dental critical illness and more)

Perks at work – employee discounts

Employee assistance programme/ virtual GP

Achieve Together

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer: Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric: Our hybrid work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion 

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