Senior DevSecOps Engineer

The Insolvency Service; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading government agency in the UK is seeking a talented Senior DevSecOps Engineer to join their Digital Services team. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering and integrating solutions, ensuring deployment strategies are secure and scalable, and supporting junior colleagues. This position offers the opportunity to shape digital services while promoting an inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Employee network groups

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a DevSecOps Engineer or similar role.
• Strong technical knowledge in deployment and infrastructure.
• Ability to collaborate with development and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Integrate software to form a DevSecOps toolchain.
• Transform technical requirements for product delivery.
• Ensure deployment strategies are scalable and secure.
• Maintain applications in production and non-production environments.

Skills

DevSecOps toolchain transformation

Coaching and mentoring

Deployment strategies

Problem-solving

Monitoring Production environments

Job description

As a senior DevSecOps engineer you will deliver and integrate software to form a complete DevSecOps toolchain. They are responsible for planning and designing large groups of stories. At this role level, you will:

• Transform technical requirements into an effective DevSecOps toolchain to enable product delivery
• Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
• 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
• For keeping the applications running in production and non-production environments
• For ensuring that applications are deployed in a timely and secure manner
• For defining standards for the successful operation of a DevSecOps function within the Insolvency Service
• For monitoring and resolving issues in Production environments
• For contributing to priority incident bridge calls and root cause analysis
• For providing estimates to upcoming DevSecOps activities that are related to the delivery roadmap
• For providing updates and comments to in-progress work
• For working with and providing support to development and operations teams
• For escalating tickets to the Scrum Master/Delivery Manager that are unable to be completed and are now blocked
• For updating and building deployment pipelines inline with the build and deployment model
• For raising changes to go through and attending CAB to represent those changes
• For contributing to the overall improvement of the application technology stack
• For ensuring that documentation conforms to application documentation standards and is up-to-date and reflective of any changes.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer we generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. In certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, we may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to link.

The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty. We have an exciting opportunity for a talented, enthusiastic Senior DevSecOps Engineer within our Digital Services team. We are responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting the agency's line of business applications. Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive, and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency achieve its diversity objectives.

We have 10 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include Carers Network, Disability & Health, FACES Network Group, Grass Roots, LGBT+, Mind Matters, No Limits, Part Time Workers, The Shed, and Women's Network Group. We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, through our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities. The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career!

Digital Services is an in-house team, which has recently moved from using a 3rd party DevSecOps function to bringing it in-house. We are also consolidating our technology stack and moving away from legacy services, so this is a fantastic opportunity to help shape our digital services and the way we work for a sustainable, user‑centric future. We would love for you to be part of that team. Digital Services is part of Change and Technology Services (CTS) who support and improve applications and systems across the agencies IT landscape. CTS provide key services including digital services, cyber security and information governance, service architecture and governance and digital programme delivery.

DevSecOps look after the deployment and infrastructure of the applications and products we deliver. They keep the lights on and are first to identify and resolve any issues with the live services. They work closely with developers and QAT to ensure the products meet the demands of the users, whilst also ensuring it meets cyber‑security demands.