Senior DevOps Engineer

Money and Pensions Service; Bedford; Hybrid; GBP 71,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization, the Money and Pensions Service, is seeking a passionate Senior DevOps Engineer in Bedford. The successful candidate will have a significant impact on society by building Azure cloud services while working with a dynamic team committed to transforming financial wellbeing across the UK.

Benefits

Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays

Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of salary)

Interest-free loan for season tickets

Cycle to work Scheme

Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs

Life assurance scheme

Employee assistance programme (EAP)

Paid volunteering (2 days a year)

Recognition Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience with Azure Cloud Services including API Management.
• Experience in coding languages like Python, Java, or C#.
• Experience working within an agile development team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain resources in Azure cloud using IaC.
• Lead design and development of deployment pipelines.
• Engage collaboratively in an agile environment.

Skills

Availability and capacity management

Development process optimisation

Information security

Modern standards approach

Programming and build

Prototyping

Service support

Systems design

Systems integration

User focus

Job description

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Use your DevOps skills to make a direct impact on society. At the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), we are committed to transforming lives by helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing. We are looking for a passionate Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team and build the highly available Azure cloud services that make this crucial mission possible.

Bedford

Job Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer

c. £71,000 per annum

Bedford Based

Hybrid Working

Permanent

Use your DevOps skills to make a direct impact on society. At the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), we are committed to transforming lives by helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing. We are looking for a passionate Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team and build the highly available Azure cloud services that make this crucial mission possible.

Working with our architects and development teams, you will be central to designing, building, and maintaining our deployment pipelines and environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Your expertise will directly empower our delivery teams and advance the DevOps practices that allow us to help millions of people achieve financial stability.

This role is aligned with DDaT – Development operations (DevOps) engineer – Senior DevOps engineer: Senior DevOps engineer - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

You’ll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain resources in Azure cloud using Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Terraform).
• Lead the design and development of our deployment pipelines and automation solutions using Azure and open-source tooling.
• Continuously analyse our DevOps processes and identify opportunities to further automate and refine our deployment practices.
• Engage collaboratively in an agile environment, working closely with solution architects, technical leads and developers.
• Implementation of services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
• Contribute to low level design and maintain documentation.
• Peer reviewing IaC developed as part of our workflow.
• Able to self-manage including keeping technical knowledge up to date.
• Promoting collaborative working, efficiencies and knowledge transfer.
• Actively participating within the wider community of practice; advocating DevOps best practices and sharing knowledge/experience.
• Mentoring and providing guidance to DevOps and Software Developers.
• Leading/facilitating technical discussions and engaging with external delivery partners as appropriate.
  
  

Skills Needed For The Role Level:

• Availability and capacity management. You can manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets. (Skill level: working)
• Development process optimisation. You can work under guidance to identify process optimisation opportunities and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions. (Skill level: working)
• Information security. You can design solutions and services with security controls included, specifically engineered to mitigate security threats. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Modern standards approach. You can apply modern development standards and support others in applying them. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Programming and build (software engineering). You can collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications. You can use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Prototyping. You can approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You can establish design patterns and iterate them. You can use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Service support. You can identify, locate and fix complex service faults, advise others on different methodologies and types of service support (Skill level: expert)
• Systems design. You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You can select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Systems integration. You can define the integration build, co-ordinate build activities across systems and understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities. (Skill level: practitioner)
• User focus. You can collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. You can explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can champion user research to focus on all users. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use. (Skill level: practitioner)
  
  

About Us

The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is based in Bedford, in a recently renovated modern office. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to become an integral part of a dynamic organisation, working to help people across the UK.

At The Heart Of The Money And Pensions Service Are Our Values – Caring, Connecting, And Transforming, Which Are The Foundation Of Our Success. They Permeate Every Area Of Our Work And Define All Our Business Relationships And The Way We Work With Each Other. We’re Not Only Looking For The Best People To Come And Work For Us, But We Need People Who Align Themselves With Our Values:

• Caring We care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform.
• Connecting We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections.
• Transforming We are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.
  
  

Our Inclusive Working Environment

By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds. We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity, and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”

Our colleague and ally networks encompass LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health, ethnicity, and diversity.

Job Reference: MaPS00877

Close Date: 03/07/2025

At The Heart Of The Money And Pensions Service Are Our Values – Caring, Connecting, And Transforming, Which Are The Foundation Of Our Success. They Permeate Every Area Of Our Work And Define All Our Business Relationships And The Way We Work With Each Other. We’re Not Only Looking For The Best People To Come And Work For Us, But We Need People Who Align Themselves With Our Values:

• Caring We care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform.
• Connecting We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections.
• Transforming We are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.
  
  

Our Inclusive Working Environment

By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds. We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity, and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”

Our colleague and ally networks encompass LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health, ethnicity, and diversity.

Job Reference: MaPS00877

Close Date: 03/07/2025

Person specification

You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience.

Essential

• Highly experienced, working with a range of Azure Cloud Services including API Management and function apps.
• Demonstrable experience in the build and optimisation of pipelines (ideally in Azure DevOps).
• Coding background, with experience in a language such as Python, Java, C# JavaScript, React or PowerShell.
• Experience in provisioning and managing infrastructure through IaC (e.g. BiCep, terraform).
• Demonstrable commitment to high quality, cost effective and robust engineering practices.
• Experience working within an agile development team.
• Experience of productive collaboration with design, testing, product and other digital delivery colleagues.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience with JavaScript and building/deploying/scaling React-based applications (or similar).
• Experience working within a monorepo environment and tooling such as NX or turborepo.
• Experience working with Netlify or Vercel PaaS.
• Experience with bash scripting.
• Experience with git version control.
• Experience in a senior role.
• Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
• Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary)
• Interest-free loan for season tickets for buses and trains
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
• Life assurance scheme
• Give as you earn scheme
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
• Enhanced family and sick pay
• Paid volunteering (2 days a year)
• Recognition Scheme
• Discounts portal to numerous retailers
  
  

Flexible Working

At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. As standard, we work on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and our headquarters in Bedford will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs, but personal and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Career Development

In MaPS, we take career development seriously. We actively encourage and support applications from our existing MaPS colleagues. However, we do follow the Civil Service Commissioner recruitment principles, which means that you will be required to participate in a full, open, and fair process.

Selection process details

Reserve List

If you are successful at interview, we operate a reserve list where your details will be held for up to 6 months. Should a vacancy come available in that time with the same essential criteria, reserve list candidates will be offered that position with no further assessment required.

Application Process

The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Money and Pensions Service via email: [e-mail]. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact :

• Name : Ben Walsh
• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Recruitment team

• Email : [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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