Senior DevOps Engineer

National Highways; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A public sector organization is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance digital capabilities. This pivotal hybrid role involves leading the implementation of DevOps tooling and mentoring junior staff to foster a collaborative engineering culture. Candidates should have a degree in software engineering or related field and industry certifications. Responsibilities include automating solutions, improving service delivery, and ensuring compliance with security standards. The organization prioritizes safety and teamwork as core values.

Qualifications

• Experience troubleshooting across diverse technology stacks.
• Proficient in programming languages like Python and TypeScript.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of DevOps tooling.
• Automate technical solutions to enhance service delivery.
• Mentor junior colleagues to improve capabilities.

Skills

Troubleshooting across diverse technology stacks

Proficient in CI/CD tools

Test-Driven Development principles

Python

TypeScript

Education

Degree in software engineering, cyber security, or digital forensics

Relevant industry certifications such as AWS, GIAC, OSCP

Job description

About the role.

As part of the development of our Digital Services function, we are recruiting to strengthen internal digital capability within the Digital Technical Competence team. These roles are central to building sustainable in-house expertise that supports the design, development and delivery of digital solutions across the transport network.

A key focus of this campaign is creating new opportunities. As a result, we are recruiting a Senior DevOps Engineer. This is a pivotal role that will lead the design and implementation of DevOps tooling to enable the secure, reliable delivery of digital services across National Highways. This role sits at the heart of building a brand-new DevOps practice, offering a rare opportunity to shape ways of working, establish standards, and create something you can genuinely be proud of. Working across directorates, you will automate technical solutions, lead CI/CD development, improve new and existing systems, and provide technical leadership through mentoring and best-practice delivery. You will ensure infrastructure meets government standards for security, resilience, and availability, while fostering a collaborative, continuously improving engineering culture.

This is a hybrid role, requiring two days per week in the office, based at any National Highways office location.

• Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues to improve National Highways\' capabilities, speed delivery and support continuous improvement.
• Support our services, software and components to agreed KPIs and meet our business goals.
• Ensure that deployment strategies at a medium level of complexity for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available to maximise our continuous improvement
• Design and architect solutions and systems to a medium level of risk, impact and complexity using DevOps processes and to suitable design standards to deliver continuous improvement to National Highways and speed delivery.
• Program and build (software engineering) software at a medium level of complexity as required for continuous improvement and delivery.
• Deliver projects at a medium level of complexity using DevOps processes to meet our business needs, continuous improvement and delivery.

About you.

• You bring academic and industry qualifications that demonstrate your expertise and credibility, including a degree in software engineering, cyber security, digital forensics (or a related field), and/or relevant industry certifications such as AWS, GIAC, or OSCP.
• You are proficient in troubleshooting across diverse technology stacks, including compute, storage, networking, COTS, and open-source software.
• You plan and coordinate system and acceptance testing across both functional and non-functional requirements.
• You handle large data sets effectively, with experience scaling data processing and storage solutions.
• You understand and apply Test-Driven Development principles.
• You work with CI/CD tools and modern programming languages (e.g. Python, TypeScript) and actively identify opportunities for process improvement.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England\'s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

The Digital Services Directorate is helping to reshape the way National Highways operates by delivering digital, data, and technology services across all areas, from frontline to back office, in a modern and efficient manner. Our vision is to develop integrated information and technology that empowers our colleagues and provides real-time information to our customers, as well as integrating with intelligent vehicle and transport systems as they evolve, to enhance journey safety and reliability.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.