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Job Title: IT Environment Manager

Band: 4
Salary: £46,293 - £51,439

Location: Liverpool, Newport, Norwich or Birmingham

Term: Permanent

Hours: Full time/Part time/Job Share/Compressed

Closing Date: 13-01-25

Are you passionate about building and maintaining robust IT environments that power digital transformation? Do you want to play a crucial role in aiding CCS's £30bn procurement operation? Join us in creating and handling the environments that enable our digital future.

Job Summary

As IT Environment Manager at CCS, you'll be accountable for delivering and maintaining our non-production environments that aid critical digital service development. You'll ensure our development, testing, and staging environments enable efficient delivery across both agile and waterfall methodologies, assisting our mission to transform public sector procurement.

Directorate overview

The Digital & Data Services (DDS) directorate is driving CCS's digital transformation, supporting over £30bn of public sector procurement annually. Our Infrastructure and Operations team ensures the reliability, security, and effectiveness of our technology platforms, enabling both our internal teams and external customers to work efficiently and securely.

Team Summary

You'll join our Infrastructure and Operations team, working alongside development teams, service management and transition managers, and technical specialists. Your role will be crucial in supporting our service transition program, managing environments for all CCS digital services, and ensuring smooth delivery of new capabilities across CCS.

Key responsibilities

Design, implement and maintain development, test, and staging environments for CCS digital services
Manage environment capacity, performance, and availability to meet service requirements
Coordinate infrastructure and software upgrades across non-production environments
Aid both agile and waterfall delivery methodologies through effective environment management
Work with development teams to analyse and fulfil environment requirements
Implement and maintain environment access controls and security measures
Manage software deployment processes and tools across different environments
Drive automation and continuous improvement in environment management
Provide technical consultancy on environment configuration and deployment strategies
Maintain comprehensive documentation of environment configurations and procedures

Essential criteria (to be assessed at application stage):

Strong experience in overseeing complex IT environments in a large-scale organisation
Expertise in environment management tools and deployment automation
Knowledge of infrastructure technologies including cloud platforms
Experience with configuration management and version control systems
Proven aptitude to aid both agile and waterfall delivery methods

Success profiles (to be assessed at interview stage):

Experience

Behaviours:

Making Effective Decisions
Working Together
Delivering at Pace
Changing and Improving
Managing a Quality Service

Technical:

Experience with deployment tools (e.g., Jenkins, Artifactory)
Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git, Subversion)
Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
Experience with infrastructure as code
Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools
Understanding of security and access control principles

(A link to the Civil Service Success Profiles Framework is provided below)

Success Profiles Framework

What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect:

Competitive salary
Generous pension scheme
A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays

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found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil ServiceD&I Strategy.

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Working flexibly, delivering outcomes

CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values.

Selection Process

Candidates who are successful at sift will be contacted as soon as possible following the closing date and advised of the interview process in more detail. The sift will commence 14-01-25 and interviews will be either at one of our offices or via video with interview times and dates to be confirmed. (Subject to change)

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Please note: Applicants can make use of artificial intelligence but the information presented at application must be factual.

A reserve list may be held for up to 6 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk.

Complaints procedure

Our recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles details of which can be found athttp://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk in the first instance.

If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk

Working for the Civil Service:

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

Recruitment Principles:

If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk

Success Profiles:

Success profiles are the new recruitment framework used within the Civil Service.

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