Lead DevOps Engineer (WebOps - Cloud Support & Automation) - Companies House - SEO

Government Digital and Data; East Midlands, London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A government digital agency is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive digital transformation efforts. This role involves managing service improvements and leading a technical team while offering remote work options. Ideal candidates should have extensive experience in IT operations, incident resolution, and coding skills, especially with AWS and DevOps tools. The agency offers a supportive culture and a strong benefits package.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Civil Service Pension scheme

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Experience in IT environments, preferably in an Ops role.
• Proven experience leading a technical team.
• Demonstrable coding and scripting experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage release, maintenance, upgrades, and service improvements.
• Contribute to digital services and transformation projects.
• Coach and mentor other IT professionals.

Skills

Incident/Problem resolution and root cause analysis

Problem resolution via coding and scripting

Excellent customer focus

Mentoring and leading team members

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

SQL

Job description

Location

Remote working (anywhere in the UK)

About the job

Job summary

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Come and join a passionate and collaborative team driving digital transformation at Companies House!

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you'll be at the heart of our mission to deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing services that support millions of users.

You will join a large, diverse team of engineers with a broad range of skills and domain knowledge. We take pride in our team-first culture and our track record—maintaining 99.5% service availability over the past five years.

This is your chance to lead with impact, shape our DevOps strategy, and help us build the future of digital services. If you're ready to grow your career while making a real difference, we’d love to hear from you.

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Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.

Find out more about what a great place Companies House is to work

Please note:

Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. Security Clearance is an essential requirement. You must have been in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to meet the minimum residency requirement. No adjustments or exceptions can be made to this criterion. Please see 'Things you need to know' section below for more information. You will participate in the on-call rota providing cover 24/7/365 as an essential element of this role. Remote contracts will only be offered to successful candidates who are not a commutable distance to our Cardiff, Belfast or Edinburgh offices. See further details under ‘’Where will you be working?’ section.

Job description

As a Lead DevOps Engineer (WebOps – Cloud Support & Automation), you will:

• be responsible for release, maintenance, upgrades, automation, and service improvements, resolving ServiceNow Incident issues and finding root causes of problems.
• contribute to the development of projects to improve the range and quality of digital services available to the customer and take an active part in the transformation of our services and smarter ways of working
• be part of the IT Services Digital team in a time of great change and play an integral part in the way that Companies House systems are developed
• be part of a huge Transformation project to align our services with our new powers under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
• support the recently migrated AWS cloud estate
• have the opportunity to develop your management skills as part of your career development
• coach and mentor other IT professionals
• be able to network and engage with stakeholders to deliver improvements

Where will you be working?

Remote contracts will be offered only to successful candidates who do not live a reasonable, commutable distance to either our Cardiff, Belfast or Edinburgh offices. In cases where your home address is considered to be a commutable distance from the office, you will be aligned to the office you live nearest to, where you will be expected to attend on a regular basis. We are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work which provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. If you are offered a hybrid contract, the degree of choice you have will depend on your role and your day-to-day work activities. Your manager will agree regular patterns of attendance with you, however you may be required to make yourself available to attend the office more frequently when required to meet business needs.

Person specification

We’re looking for the following experience and technical skills, which will be assessed at sift and at interview.

The successful candidate will have experience of:

• Incident/Problem resolution and root cause analysis
• Problem resolution via coding and scripting
• Adhoc reporting and data management
• Proven experience within an IT environment (preferably in an Ops environment), and of leading a technical team
• System software build and release - Automation of manual processes, including code deployment and environment provisioning
• Setting up performance monitoring / alerting / tuning for web-based services and API’s
• Coaching and supporting colleagues in non-functional requirements, ensuring availability, security, capacity, and performance for the services
• Engaging in continuous improvement activities by working collaboratively within and outside of the team
• Excellent customer focus, communication, and networking skills
• Mentoring and leading less experienced members of the team

They will also have demonstrable technical experience of:

• Unix/Linux in a support or development environment
• DevOps and associated technologies – Continuous Delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience
• Supporting infrastructure in the cloud
• Database querying
• Any type of coding
• AWS, Java, Terraform, Concourse, Ansible, Docker, JSON, SQL, GIT, Tibco iProcess, Doc1 (experience in similar technologies will be considered)

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace
• Developing Self and Others