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91758 - Senior DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 25 October 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £54,358 to £66,670 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary range is £54,358 - £61,585, London salary range is £58,847 - £66,670. Your salary will be dependent on your base location. London: £58,847 - £67,400 (which may include an allowance of up to £8,553) National: £54,358 - £62,700 (which may include an allowance of up to £8,342) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 November 2024 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 91758 |
Summary
Grade: Grade 7
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary (for more information, please refer to the T&Cs on the bottom):
London: £58,847 - £67,400 (which may include an allowance of up to £8,553)
National: £54,358 - £62,700 (which may include an allowance of up to £8,342)
Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy number: 91758
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Senior DevOps Engineer here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Cloud Platform team.
The MoJ’s Cloud Platform is transforming the department’s ability to deliver digital services, by providing hosting services with ops tools and best practices embedded. The value the team delivers is multiplied across hundreds of services that make the justice system better for users. We use modern best practices like DevOps, agile and GitOps, use cloud native architectures, work in the open and prefer modern open source tools. You can find our repo here.
This role aligns against the Senior DevOps engineer role from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
• About Us: At Justice Digital, we're dedicated to leveraging technology to drive impactful change across the justice system. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing access to justice and improving outcomes for users through innovative digital solutions.
• Responsibilities: You’ll be working on our acclaimed open-source public services, with user needs at the heart of everything, helping us transform Government for the future. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll be helping define how we do what we do, and making sure that our systems are built to be changed rapidly.
• Collaboration: You’ll collaborate closely with software developers, product managers, designers, delivery managers, technical architects and content specialists who share our vision of leveraging technology to transform government services.
• Discover More: To get a glimpse into life at Justice Digital, explore our blog and read about our Digital and Technology Strategy 2025.
Our Tech Stack
• Technologies: We use a diverse range of technologies, and we’re seeking individuals who specialise in one or more and are eager to learn new languages and frameworks. Our tech stack includes:
• Cloud infrastructure: AWS
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform
• Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes
• CI/CD deployments: Github Actions
• Application code: Go, Python, Ruby, Javascript
• Learning and Support: Once part of our team, we'll support you in mastering our tech stack, regardless of your current experience. Explore our GitHub for insights into our technologies and the services we develop and maintain.
• Our Community: Join over 150 experienced software and devops engineers who form our vibrant engineering community across the MoJ. You’ll have opportunities to mentor junior colleagues and participate in informal support networks with peers. We encourage active engagement in shaping our engineering culture and community.
• Career Development: We take pride in our supportive and effective line management. Your skills are highly valued, and we’re committed to helping you expand them within the civil service. You'll have opportunities to move between teams or departments, explore new technologies, and take on increased responsibilities aligned with your career goals.
• Explore Further: Dive deeper into our work and culture by visiting our Developer Blog and Justice Digital Blog.
Key Responsibilities
As a senior DevOps engineer, you will:
Technical
• Help build and run user-centred, open-source, secure web systems to serve a variety of citizen and government needs
• Be responsible for automating the deployment of systems that follow standard patterns, or components of systems that are more complex
• Manage infrastructure for multiple environments through code
• Build tools to automate infrastructure management tasks
People
• Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developers, and maintain DevOps culture.
• Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
• Help with hiring, taking part in recruitment of other web operations engineers and technical staff
• Participate in the professional development of themselves and guide others
• Participate in 2nd line support during office hours, and sometimes out of hours (for which you’ll be paid an allowance and further hourly payment when on-call)
If this feels like an exciting opportunity, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary (for more information, please refer to the T&Cs on the bottom):
London: £58,847 - £67,400 (which may include an allowance of up to £8,553)
National: £54,358 - £62,700 (which may include an allowance of up to £8,342)
Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy number: 91758
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Senior DevOps Engineer here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Cloud Platform team.
The MoJ’s Cloud Platform is transforming the department’s ability to deliver digital services, by providing hosting services with ops tools and best practices embedded. The value the team delivers is multiplied across hundreds of services that make the justice system better for users. We use modern best practices like DevOps, agile and GitOps, use cloud native architectures, work in the open and prefer modern open source tools. You can find our repo here.
This role aligns against the Senior DevOps engineer role from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
• About Us: At Justice Digital, we're dedicated to leveraging technology to drive impactful change across the justice system. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing access to justice and improving outcomes for users through innovative digital solutions.
• Responsibilities: You’ll be working on our acclaimed open-source public services, with user needs at the heart of everything, helping us transform Government for the future. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll be helping define how we do what we do, and making sure that our systems are built to be changed rapidly.
• Collaboration: You’ll collaborate closely with software developers, product managers, designers, delivery managers, technical architects and content specialists who share our vision of leveraging technology to transform government services.
• Discover More: To get a glimpse into life at Justice Digital, explore our blog and read about our Digital and Technology Strategy 2025.
Our Tech Stack
• Technologies: We use a diverse range of technologies, and we’re seeking individuals who specialise in one or more and are eager to learn new languages and frameworks. Our tech stack includes:
• Cloud infrastructure: AWS
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform
• Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes
• CI/CD deployments: Github Actions
• Application code: Go, Python, Ruby, Javascript
• Learning and Support: Once part of our team, we'll support you in mastering our tech stack, regardless of your current experience. Explore our GitHub for insights into our technologies and the services we develop and maintain.
• Our Community: Join over 150 experienced software and devops engineers who form our vibrant engineering community across the MoJ. You’ll have opportunities to mentor junior colleagues and participate in informal support networks with peers. We encourage active engagement in shaping our engineering culture and community.
• Career Development: We take pride in our supportive and effective line management. Your skills are highly valued, and we’re committed to helping you expand them within the civil service. You'll have opportunities to move between teams or departments, explore new technologies, and take on increased responsibilities aligned with your career goals.
• Explore Further: Dive deeper into our work and culture by visiting our Developer Blog and Justice Digital Blog.
Key Responsibilities
As a senior DevOps engineer, you will:
Technical
• Help build and run user-centred, open-source, secure web systems to serve a variety of citizen and government needs
• Be responsible for automating the deployment of systems that follow standard patterns, or components of systems that are more complex
• Manage infrastructure for multiple environments through code
• Build tools to automate infrastructure management tasks
People
• Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developers, and maintain DevOps culture.
• Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
• Help with hiring, taking part in recruitment of other web operations engineers and technical staff
• Participate in the professional development of themselves and guide others
• Participate in 2nd line support during office hours, and sometimes out of hours (for which you’ll be paid an allowance and further hourly payment when on-call)
If this feels like an exciting opportunity, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!