DevOps Engineer

Government Recruitment Service; South Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency is seeking a DevOps Engineer to provide technical support and mentorship for junior developers. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining automation platforms, contributing to security enhancements, and ensuring technical onboarding into the Cyber Security environment. Some flexibility for remote work is possible, but office presence is required for 60% of the time.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Contributing to routine monitoring activities, identifying performance improvements.
• End-to-end technical onboarding of new systems into the Cyber Security environment.

Job description

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.
Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office.Travel to the Manchester office will be required for the successful candidate.