Senior DevOps

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 62,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading government service provider in Manchester is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to ensure the reliability and performance of critical IT systems. You will collaborate with teams to design, build, and maintain service components, focusing on security and monitoring. This role involves mentoring other engineers and guiding CI/CD processes in a dynamic cloud environment, ensuring efficient deployments. This position offers a competitive salary and support for hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience in maintaining and designing key components for service reliability.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Experience mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Ensure service reliability and performance through key component maintenance.
• Collaborate with architects to clarify design constraints.
• Provide guidance on CI/CD pipelines for efficient deployments.
• Mentor and lead engineers in technical tasks.

Skills

CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery)

Service reliability

Automation

Infrastructure management

Mentoring

Job description

£62,109 per year, National: £62,109 London: £66,229 You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £18,291.

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

Yes

Closing Date:

05/03/2026

About this job

We are looking for people who are passionate about Engineering to join our community led team in Shared Applications Service (SAS). You will work in agile multidisciplinary teams with over 200 engineers in a modern cloud environment using the latest technologies.

Our purpose as a team is to bring technical understanding in-house for over 600 Home Office applications.

You could be creating and maintaining some of the most critical public services in the United Kingdom and transforming how we use data and technology to improve these.

We are responsible for designing, building and supporting solutions to help people prove their identity or apply for visas.

You could also be working on critical IT systems that support policing and counter terrorism, which helps protect UK borders.

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.

Watch this short video to hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital.

The Senior DevOps Engineer ensures service reliability and performance by maintaining, designing, and building key components in line with standards, ensuring security and effective monitoring.

Collaborating with architects and teams, they clarify design constraints, workforce needs, and cost implications during discovery phases.

They provide guidance on CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, enabling efficient and secure deployments for new users, ensuring automation, and streamlined software delivery processes.

They share common responsibilities in automation, reliability, and infrastructure management with other DevOps colleagues.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.

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