DevOps Engineer

UK Home Office; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%

25 days annual leave, rising to 30 with service

Flexible working options

Job summary

A government agency in the UK is seeking a DevOps Engineer to ensure service reliability and performance. Responsibilities include technical support, mentorship, and enhancing automation platforms. Candidates should have strong cloud solution skills and be eligible for SC clearance. This position offers a variety of benefits including a generous pension, flexible working arrangements, and opportunities for training.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in DevOps culture.
• Experience with cloud solutions and best practices.
• Ability to develop and maintain IaC scripts.

Responsibilities

• Providing hands-on technical support and troubleshooting.
• Mentorship of junior developers.
• Development and improvement of in-house automation platforms.
• Monitoring activities and identifying performance improvements.

Skills

Cloud solutions using AWS or Azure

Infrastructure-as-code (IaC)

Incident response and monitoring

Log data management

Job description

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The DevOps Engineer ensures service reliability and performance by maintaining and supporting key components, proactively monitoring metrics, and performing updates to ensure accessibility, stability, and capacity for production and deployment. They provide guidance on CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, advising developers on best practices to enable secure and efficient deployments. They help streamline automation and software delivery processes, ensuring the platform is effectively utilised.

This role requires Security clearance and NVPP3. Typically you will need to have lived in the UK for the past 5 years to obtain these clearances.

What will you be doing?

As a DevOps Engineer your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Providing hands-on technical support, troubleshooting platform use and configuration issues.
• Support & mentorship of junior developers.
• Development, Maintenance and continuous improvement of in-house automation platforms, scripts and services.
• Contributing to routine monitoring activities, identifying performance improvements and security enhancements.
• End-to-end technical onboarding of new systems into the Cyber Security environment.
• Development, maintenance and continuous improvement of Cyber Security tooling and services.
• Supporting Cyber Security functions with technical expertise & advice.

Your skills for this role

You’ll have a strong foundation in DevOps culture, with the following skills or experience:

• Designing and implementing cloud solutions using AWS or Azure, applying best practices for architecture, security, and scalability.
• Monitoring applications and responding to incidents using established procedures, ensuring system availability and performance.
• Developing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scripts to automate build, deployment, and provisioning activities.
• Working with and managing log data at scale.
• Integration with third party suppliers & external departments. Working together to develop shared platforms.
• Applying data management best practices for cloud resources, ensuring structured naming, tagging, metadata, backups, and documentation.
• Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.
• Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).
• Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).
• Inclusion and recognition: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.

Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers

Please note: This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you must typically have been resident in the UK for at least five years.

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

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• Full-time

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