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DevOps

Job details
Posting date: 24 February 2025
Salary: £44,720 to £52,130 per year
Additional salary information: London: £48,720 - £52,130, National: £44,720 - £47,850. You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £12,680. New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 10 March 2025
Location: Southport
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 392109/5

Summary

One of these roles sits in EUC&C, who are responsible for all Home Office end user services, including the provision and support of devices, development and support of applications and business critical services. For example, video conferencing, contact centre platforms and M365 applications such as MS Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and Outlook.

For ten of these roles, we are looking for people who are passionate about Engineering to join our community led team in Shared Applications Service (SAS).

You will work in agile multidisciplinary teams with over 200 engineers in a modern cloud environment using the latest technologies. Our purpose as a team is to bring technical understanding in-house for over 600 Home Office applications.

You could be creating and maintaining some of the most critical public services in the United Kingdom and transforming how we use data and technology to improve these. We are responsible for designing, building and supporting solutions to help people prove their identity or apply for visas. You could also be working on critical IT systems that support policing and counter terrorism, which helps protect UK borders.

The DevOps is responsible for maintaining and supporting our platforms. Your role is proactive, checking relevant metrics and performing platform updates when necessary. This will ensure it is accessible to users and has capacity for production and deployment.

Upon request, you will also advise developers on how to use the platform effectively, reviewing and advising on their CI/CD pipelines. You may also work to delivery components of new platforms.

Tools and Technologies we use

We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:

  • Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power platform, Logic Apps 
  • Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular  
  • Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra  
  • DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Azure Service Fabric, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Azure DevOps.

What you will do

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

  • writing scripts to deliver/work with our platforms, such as developing docker/terraform/ansible files for a variety of systems/frameworks
  • providing technical support functions, solving more challenging platform use and configuration issues
  • providing feedback to project teams on platform use; supporting routine monitoring activities
  • advising developers on how they should use existing systems and configure CI/CD pipelines
  • ensuring working to our appropriate standards, ensuring high service quality

Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.

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