Dev Ops Senior Automation Engineer

Application closing date: Monday 24^th March 2025 at 11:59pm

Location: Preston Campus

Contract type: Indefinite

Hours: 36.25 hours per week

Interview date: To be confirmed

Job details

This role is a critical member of the IT Services Team and supporting the IT Leadership team. This specific role will provide technical expertise in Automation across the University’s IT estate, with a primary responsibility for the management and maintenance of the university's automation management systems.

The teams ensure the University’s user facing IT services continue to perform to the required levels of service, availability, security, and flexibility, in support of the University’s core business.

Responsible for contributing to the University’s user facing IT services in order to deliver a modern, frictionless, secure and intuitive user experience.

Foster a positive partnership with the Dev Ops team members ensuring all aspects of the end user experience are effectively owned, managed and delivered to provide a ‘joined-up, one team dev ops’ service to our customers.

About you:

The role holder will be key to ensuring the successful implementation of the University strategy for information and technology, supporting and providing modern, scalable and secure integrated platforms to support University business, including blended on-campus and online learning and teaching, research, administration, estate operations and commercial activity.

Working in close collaboration with the wider IT leads, provide management and mentorship around all aspects of the University’s Automation platforms, delivering a series of programmes and projects to ensure that systems are future proofed, applying appropriate governance, procurement and service management procedures, whilst maintaining regulatory, legal and professional standards.

You must be capable of handling demanding customers, embedding a culture of service within teams, and representing technical leadership in both external and internal meetings and forums. Additionally, you should hold a relevant business or systems-based undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience. Experience in leadership within the UK education sector, operating within an Agile, Service Managed environment, and writing process and policy documents is highly desirable.

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