Senior DevOps Developer - Java, Oracle

Transport for London; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Final salary pension

Free TfL travel

Rail travel reimbursement

30 days annual leave

Hybrid working

Cycle-to-work

Retail, health and travel offers

Eurostar travel discounts

Job summary

Transport for London is seeking a Senior DevOps Developer – Java, Oracle to design and deliver a robust DevOps toolchain. You will drive scalable deployment strategies, mentor junior engineers, and ensure high availability and repeatable delivery across product lines.

You will own complex delivery work, guide teams through CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate across service groups to improve automation and reliability. This role offers hybrid working with a balance of office and home-based work.

Qualifications

• Experience building DevOps toolchains to enable product delivery.
• Ability to plan and develop large streams of work in an Agile environment.
• Knowledge of secure, scalable deployment strategies and automation best practices.

Responsibilities

• Develops effective DevOps toolchains to enable product delivery and implement deployment strategies.
• Lead knowledge sharing and promote best practices across teams.
• Identify and resolve complex issues to meet SLAs and ensure service continuity.
• Develop and lead reusable templates and shared services and drive medium-long term strategies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers and promote DevOps culture.
• Participate in meetings and follow team processes to ensure quality and efficiency.
• Coach colleagues to grow their skills and adopt best practices in software development.
• Provide insight on new technologies and evaluate their fit for projects.
• Contribute to development plans and estimates to ensure timely delivery.
• Perform code reviews to improve quality and consistency.
• Oversee lifecycle management of applications and platforms for continuous improvement.

Skills

Cloud platforms

IaC tooling

CI/CD

Git workflows

Agile frameworks

RDBMS knowledge

Networking basics

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

Azure DevOps

TeamCity

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

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Job title: Senior DevOps Developer – Java, Oracle

Salary: £75-81k Grade: Band 3

Contract type: TfL Reference: 5511

External - All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

*Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period.Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

Overview of project/role

The Senior DevOps Engineer delivers and integrates software to form a complete DevOps tool chain and is responsible for planning and developing large groups of stories, building an effective DevOps tool chain to enable product delivery, provides coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues and ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available, have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems, own and be responsible for the overall delivery of work at any scale, a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for and leading the onboarding of specific systems.

Key Accountabilities

• Develops effective DevOps toolchains to enable product delivery, assure and implement deployment strategies and resolve issues to ensure services are repeatable, scalable, resilient and highly available.
• Lead the sharing of knowledge, documentation and good practice within the team and with related/interested teams and groups to foster innovation, promote continuous learning and growth
• Identify and resolve complex issues preventing delivery or continuation of system support activities to achieve service level agreements(SLAs).
• Develop and lead the tactics for building reusable templates and shared services and own the development of medium-long term strategies for product lines within your Functional and Professional Communities.
• Lead one or more system's support providing technical leadership and guidance, creating a DevOps culture and implementing automation best practices.
• Participate in meetings / delivery events and follow processes defined for their team to ensure quality of work and efficiency of the team.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior developers or peers to foster their professional growth, enhance their technical skills, and instil best practices in software development.
• Provide development expertise and insight to support the effective evaluation of new technologies.
• Contribute to the development plans, forecasts and development estimates on software applications, to ensure projects can be planned in a consistent and timely fashion.
• Perform detailed reviews on code developed by peers to improve code quality, knowledge sharing and consistency.
• Perform lifecycle management activities of applications and platforms, including maintenance, patching, vulnerability remediation, upgrades, operational support, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in an out-of-hours (OOH) support rota and provide support when called upon to assist with production issues.

Knowledge

• Detailed knowledge in a cloud-based environment - AWS or Azure or Google Cloud.
• Detailed knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation tools.
• Detailed knowledge with configuration management tools.
• Detailed knowledge with CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling such as Azure DevOps, Team city or Jenkins.
• Detailed knowledge with Agile frameworks including Scrum and Kanban.
• Detailed knowledge with Git version control and branching strategies, e.g. trunk-based development, gitflow.
• Broad knowledge of cloud networking including VPC, subnets, security groups, peering, CIDR.
• Detailed knowledge of at least one RDBMS.
• Extensive knowledge of the principles and standards of Technology Products and Operations to ensure that work delivered is of high quality, well
• rounded, robust, very high performing, and meets the priorities set by the agile process.

Skills

• Working ability to manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
• Working ability in Identifying process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.
• Practitioner ability to develop solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats as a core feature.
• Practitioner ability to competently apply a modern standards approach and guide others to do so.
• Practitioner ability to review specifications and use the agreed standards and tools to design, code, test, correct and document programmes or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• Practitioner ability in approaching prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing.
• Practitioner ability to establish design patterns and iterate them while using a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate.
• Expert ability to see the bigger picture by taking groups of services, investigating how to get the best of underlying services.
• Expert ability to develop standards and procedures across a service product life cycle, including the development product life cycle, and can ensure adherence.
• Practitioner ability to define and design the integration build and co-ordinate build activities and understands how to undertake and support integration testing activities.
• Expert ability to develop, implement, maintain and review systems and services to ensure delivery of professional excellence.
• Practitioner ability to work with stakeholders to set priorities, objectives and timescales while successfully deliver high quality outcomes that meet the customers’ needs and gives value for money.
• Expert ability to identify risks and resolve issues efficiently. Involve a diverse range of colleagues, stakeholders and delivery partners in developing suggestions for improvements.

Experience

• Detailed experience with automation and creating system & process efficiencies.
• Detailed experience in driving issue resolution and root cause identification.
• Broad experience with docker or similar containerization tool.
• Broad experience with appropriate CI/CD and deployment tools such as Azure DevOps or Team City
• Detailed experience with static code analysis & security scanning pipelines and associated tooling.
• Expert experience in developing and implementing centralised monitoring solutions including application logging, monitoring, alerting.
• Experience with automated testing.
• Experience of solution trade-offs such as cost, scope, timescale, and balance between long-term strategic and short-term pragmatic considerations.
• Broad experience of a major programming language such as C# or Java.
• Detailed Experience of maintaining and monitoring performance

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve. We believe that a diverse workforce enables us to deliver better services and outcomes. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. As a Disability Confident Leader, we actively encourage applications from disabled people. As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we aim to offer an assessment or interview to candidates who apply via the scheme where the minimum essential criteria for skills, knowledge and experience has been met. In some circumstances, it may not be practical to offer an interview or assessment to every candidate who applies through the scheme and meet the minimum essential criteria; in these situations, we select candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the job rather than interviewing all who meet them.

Across all recruitment activity, we recognise that selection methods may vary depending on the nature and scale of the campaign and will be applied fairly, consistently and proportionately in line with our Disability Confident commitments.

We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.

Vetting Process

At Transport for London, safety, trust and fairness sit at the heart of how we recruit. Our Vetting Charter ( https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/careers/our-vetting-process ) explains the checks we carry out before you join us, helping ensure we create a safe, inclusive and reliable network for everyone who depends on our services. We simply ask that the information you provide is honest and accurate so we can progress your application smoothly. If something doesn’t match or can’t be verified, we may not be able to move forward with your application, but we’ll always treat you with transparency, respect, and clear communication throughout.

We may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.