Overview
DevOps Engineer role at UK Ministry of Defence.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Location
* Tomlinson House, Norcross, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY5 3WP
* Abbey Wood North, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, South West, BS34 8QW
* Centurion Building, Gosport, Hampshire, South East PO13 9XA.
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Defence Business Services (DBS), Armed Forces and Veterans Services (AFVS), Development & Change (DevChg) DevOps Team. You will be part of a small DevOps (Development and Operations) team of Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) technical specialists, who provide development and support activities to a central AFVS data analytical service within the MoD. Analytical services provide statistical and detailed AFVS reports and dashboards, either directly or by self-serve, to enable the MoD to make informed decisions on military strength or investments, as well as a multitude of other business purposes related to people e.g. recruitment, training, health, pay, allowances, unit, assignment, etc.
DBS AFVS are collaborating with their commercial partners to complete a major transformation programme aimed at providing a more robust and coherent IT/infrastructure using the latest Oracle Analytical and Data Integration products which are hosted on Cloud based services, offering many benefits, including a better customer experience. As the successful candidate you’ll be a key member of the DevOps team, who provide business enhancement to a major Management Information reporting service within the MoD. Working collaboratively with our Commercial Partners, you will provide OAS technical support, maintenance, and development activities on a large enterprise data warehouse MI reporting application. You will be part of a wider group responsible for the development of change, which enhances the digital capabilities of services provided by AFVS.
Responsibilities
* Provide data modelling, business analysis and development skills across the reporting platform.
* Develop data marts and reporting models to support the Oracle Analytics Server data warehouse.
* Work closely with our commercial partner and your colleagues to support the production service, investigate incidents and problems, provide analysis and resolution as part of a resolver team. Implement best practice for practical data management.
* Work within an ITIL aligned service management framework for implementing change.
* Work with your colleagues to ensure the underlying data for a business process is clearly documented, understood and communicated. Establish productive working relationships with our commercial partner, ensuring that data lifecycle, security and quality is at the fore for all projects.
* Ensure that all technical design artefacts address requirements and adhere to data management standards and principles.
* Support service transition lifecycle activities, including requirements development, solution design, testing and deployment.
* Profile data sets to assess the quality, reporting and analysis required
Essential skills and experience
* You must have demonstrable skills and at least one year\'s of experience of developing and supporting a data warehouse Human Resources platform, ideally using the Oracle Analytics Server (or Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)) or equivalent, that provides analytical insights and Management Information reporting.
* Some experience and exposure to working with Human Resources Enterprise Resource Planning applications such as Oracle e-Business Suite (EBS), where that is used as a data source for the data warehouse and analytical reporting.
* Skilled in conducting dimensional data modelling (data-mart or star schema constructs) for data warehousing on Oracle databases (or an equivalent).
Desirable skills and experience
* Working within Agile Teams.
* ITIL experience and/or certification
Qualifications
Oracle SQL or equivalent experience
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Other
Industries
* Defense and Space Manufacturing
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