Senior DevOps Engineer - HM Land Registry - SEO

Manchester Digital; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead their Web Operations team. The ideal candidate will have a degree in IT or equivalent experience and skills in technical leadership, cloud technologies, and DevOps practices like Continuous Integration and Delivery. The position requires at least 32 hours of work per week, with a strong focus on office presence and some travel needs. Apply if you have a passion for digital transformation in a governmental context.

Qualifications

• Minimum degree in Information Technology or relevant experience.
• Experience providing technical leadership within a DevOps team.
• Experience supporting orchestration services like Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices.
• Experience working in agile environments with cloud applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering capability for the Web Operations team.
• Support production systems and work with Agile development teams.
• Champion standards and coach other DevOps Engineers.
• Engage in technical consolidation and improvement activities.
• Travel may be required for the role.

Skills

Technical leadership

DevOps practices

Container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift)

Continuous Integration/Delivery

Git and GitLab CI

Terraform

Agile methodologies

Education

Degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

AWS

Containers

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer - HM Land Registry - SEO

£48,400 - £59,300 Government Digital and Data Pay Framework Eligible
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Full-time (Permanent) £48,400 - £59,300 Government Digital and Data Pay Framework Eligible
Published on 10 September 2025 Deadline 21 September 2025

Location

Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS

About the job

Job summary

It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue on a major transformation programme. HMLR's ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data.

We are now looking for three Senior DevOps Engineer's to help us to achieve this.

This role is to provide technical engineering capability for the Web Operations team, responsible for supporting production systems and working with Agile development teams to delivery new services in a highly available and supportable configuration using DevOps processes and tooling providing.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will provide technical leadership within the team, settings standards and championing them. They will engage with other DevOps Engineers, as well as coach and support DevOps Engineers and Junior DevOps Engineers.

The Senior DevOps Engineer is part of the IT Operations Practicewhich sits within the Transformation and Technology directorate whose responsibility is for the performance and delivery of all technical infrastructure which, underpins and supports the organisation. It consists oftechnical teamswhich provide support, monitor and operate technical solutions.

The DevOps function is responsible for working with our IT software development teams to support the delivery of the platform and infrastructure for our new micro service applications as part of the digital transformation of our internal and external services. Engineers are responsible for configuration, administration and support of the Web Operations infrastructure using a DevOps methodology across multiple cloud infrastructures, ensuring they are secure, performant, supportable whilst following an agile approach to incremental delivery.

The role holder will take forward technical consolidation and/or improvement activities providing guidance and leadership to technicians within the IT Operations Practice and wider, whilst also working across the Transformation and Technology directorate to support and deliver solutions in line with the Technology and Business Strategies.

A minimum of 32 hours per week is essential for these roles. Please note that the roles may require travel, requiring an overnight stay. This role does require occasional planned out of hours working, in order to deal with IT changes and maintenance and may include an participation in an on-call rota.

HMLR expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office.

For more information about the role, please see the attached candidate pack.

Person specification

To be successful in this role you will hold a qualification in Information Technology or a related area (Degree Level or equivalent) and/or experience in an IT field.

You will have experience of providing technical leadership and support within a team of DevOps Engineers.

You will have experience supporting Operating Systems, containers and containerised workloads e.g. orchestration services such as OpenShift and Kubernetes.

You will have experience of DevOps working practices of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and the use of version control (Git and GitLab CI) and configuration-as-code across cloud and on-premise environments using Terraform.

You will also have experience of working in an agile environment building, deploying, supporting, and operating cloud applications (in particular AWS).

This role is part of the Government Digital and Data Profession and may attract an additional supplement. The amount is the result of a capability assessment which will be determined during the application and interview process to assess your capability level.

Behaviours

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