DevOps Engineer - Flexible Shifts, CI/CD for Public Sector

Cabinet Office; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cabinet Office Digital team invites a DevOps Engineer to design, develop and implement resilient, secure CI/CD pipelines and to operate live production systems in a critical government environment. You will help modernise infrastructure and reduce reliance on legacy tech while championing best practices.

Joining multidisciplinary teams, you will gather requirements, integrate complex systems and ensure reliability across platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining and operating live production environments.
• Ability to design and implement secure, automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to deliver reliable software.

Responsibilities

• Supporting, operating, and maintaining software in live production environments.
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining development and deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
• Writing clean, secure, and well-tested code with good commentary and documentation.
• Adhering to internal software development standards across teams.
• Providing integrated, user-focused solutions aligned with business needs.
• Packaging and deploying software updates with change management procedures.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Live production support

Collaborative teamwork

Agile practices

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

The Cabinet Office Digital team invites a DevOps Engineer to design, develop and implement resilient, secure CI/CD pipelines and to operate live production systems in a critical government environment. You will help modernise infrastructure and reduce reliance on legacy tech while championing best practices.

Joining multidisciplinary teams, you will gather requirements, integrate complex systems and ensure reliability across platforms.