DevOps Engineer

Ministry of Justice; United States; Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme (28.97%)

Annual leave 25–30 days plus holidays

Flexible / hybrid working

Professional development time (10% of;

Learning budget £1k per person

Parental/maternity leave

Job summary

Ministry of Justice is recruiting multiple Senior DevOps Engineers for Justice Digital, Data and Science to join the Hosting Platform Teams. This hands-on role designs, builds and operates production services and tooling to enable engineers to adopt AI securely and efficiently.

You will work with software developers, platform engineers, architects and security specialists, shaping AI-enabled services and reusable patterns across teams.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on engineering: design, build and operate production services and tooling for AI-enabled development.
• Research and evaluate new technologies and approaches, prototype and mature them for production use.
• Develop reusable patterns around AI agents, model integration, observability, and security.

Job description

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

The Role

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. Please click on the link for details.

We're recruiting for multiple Senior DevOps Engineers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science, to be part of our warm and collaborative Hosting Platform Teams.

This role aligns against the Senior DevOps Engineer role from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

The Team

Justice Engineering AI Enablement is a new team focused on improving how engineers across the Ministry of Justice use artificial intelligence to design, build and operate digital services. Our aim is not simply to introduce new tools, but to establish the engineering capabilities, patterns and practices needed to use AI effectively, securely and at scale.

The team will build production services, developer tooling and reusable capabilities that make it easier for engineers to adopt AI without compromising the quality, security, reliability or maintainability of the services they build. Our work will cover areas such as AI-assisted software development, large language models, agents, model access, evaluation, observability, security controls and developer experience.

Responsibilities

This is a hands-on engineering role. You will design, build and operate production services and tooling that enable other engineers to make effective use of AI.

You will research and evaluate new technologies, models and engineering approaches; develop prototypes and reference implementations; and take successful ideas through to robust production capabilities. You will help establish reusable engineering patterns around areas such as AI agents, model integration, evaluation, observability, security and developer tooling.

Collaboration

You will work closely with software developers, platform engineers, architects, security specialists, product managers and other technical professions across Justice Digital.

You will also work with teams responsible for shared AI platforms and services, including AI gateway capabilities, helping ensure those products integrate effectively with engineering workflows and meet the needs of the wider development community.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer in the Justice Engineering AI Enablement team, you will help shape how engineering teams across the Ministry of Justice use artificial intelligence to build and operate high-quality digital services.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You will design, build and operate production services, platforms and tooling that make AI capabilities secure, observable and straightforward for other engineers to adopt.

The work of the team has the potential to influence how hundreds of engineers across the Ministry of Justice work with AI. We will focus on creating approaches that can be reused across teams and services, rather than solving the same problems repeatedly in isolation.

About Us

At Justice Digital, Data and Science, we use technology to improve outcomes for people across the justice system. As a Senior DevOps Engineer in Justice Engineering AI Enablement, you will help shape how emerging AI technologies are applied within one of the largest engineering communities in government.

This is a rapidly developing area of technology, and many of the engineering patterns we will need are still emerging. We are looking for engineers who are genuinely engaged with this space and interested in helping establish how AI engineering should work in practice.

A significant part of the role will involve sharing knowledge, developing reusable patterns and helping the wider engineering community build the skills and confidence required to use AI effectively and responsibly.

Benefits

You will receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
• 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King's birthday.
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work-life balance.
• Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

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