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3271 - Senior DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 24 February 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £56,532 to £69,338 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary range is £56,532 - £64,048, London salary range is £61,201 - £69,338. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 March 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 3271 |
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: National
Closing Date: Friday 7th March
Interviews: w/c 24th March
Grade: G7 (MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £61,201 - £69,338 (which may include an allowance of up to £6,199) National: £56,532 - £64,048 (which may include an allowance of up to £6,168)
Working pattern: Full time, Part time, Flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy number: TBC
*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 Digital Infrastructure and Security Operations (DISO), part of our technical services team.
This role aligns against Senior DevOps Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework
DISO is part of Technology Services in Justice Digital, a modern and diverse workplace that promotes a healthy work-life balance and flexible working options.
The DISO service areas are:
● WAN – ownership of our Wide Area Network and Gateway services both internally & externally provided.
● LAN – ownership of our wired & WiFi Local Area Network services both internally & externally provided, and our Physical Infrastructure field services.
● Voice – ownership of our digital, analogue and IPT Voice & Unified Comms services.
● Video – ownership of our Video conferencing services, procedural video services including pre-recorded evidence.
● Hybrid Cloud – ownership of our Azure hosting offer, on-premise hosting, testing and monitoring and integration services
● Infrastructure Automation Team – ownership of our AWS infrastructure and automation offering.
DISO designs, builds and supports user-centred digital and technology services for the justice system: services that make a real difference to our staff and users. Millions of people every year interact with our services, and DISO plays an important role in improving access to justice and making communication and connectivity experiences simpler and more efficient for all users.
We want to hear from people who want to make a difference by building excellent services that meet user needs and change their experience by creating a simpler, faster and better system for everyone. Our mission is to deliver a world-class justice system that works for everyone in society.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer at MoJ, you will work with colleagues across Technology Services and build strong relationships with Service Owners, Information Security, Customer Service Operational Teams, Delivery Managers, Product Managers and other key stakeholders. You will share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community. You will be comfortable working across multi-disciplinary teams and flexible enough to adjust, at short notice, to immediate demand.
The role will provide a dedicated 3LS support function dealing with service requests, tickets and major incidents. Occasionally you will participate in support during Out of Hours (OoH), for which you’ll be paid an allowance and further payment if dealing with incidents.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
Engineering Management
● You ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures, identify capacity issues, stipulate the required changes, and instigate these. You know how to initiate remedial action.
● You know about information security and can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.
● You can analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes, and lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements. You can help to evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy and standards
● You know how to use a modern standards approach and guide others to use it as well.
● You have designed, implemented and supported infrastructure services to a user base over 10,000 spread across many sites.
Technical Skills
● You collaborate with others to review specifications and use these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the proper standards and tools.
● You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You know how to select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of the right technology, efficient use of resources and the integration of multiple systems and technology.
● You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used.
● You will have knowledge/experience with DHCP/DNS Services and Network Access Control.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Person Specification
Essential
● Proven experience working in a DevOps environment.
● Proven experience providing technical support and assistance to junior staff and users.
● You can apply a modern standards approach competently and guide others.
Location: National
Closing Date: Friday 7th March
Interviews: w/c 24th March
Grade: G7 (MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £61,201 - £69,338 (which may include an allowance of up to £6,199) National: £56,532 - £64,048 (which may include an allowance of up to £6,168)
Working pattern: Full time, Part time, Flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy number: TBC
*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 Digital Infrastructure and Security Operations (DISO), part of our technical services team.
This role aligns against Senior DevOps Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework
DISO is part of Technology Services in Justice Digital, a modern and diverse workplace that promotes a healthy work-life balance and flexible working options.
The DISO service areas are:
● WAN – ownership of our Wide Area Network and Gateway services both internally & externally provided.
● LAN – ownership of our wired & WiFi Local Area Network services both internally & externally provided, and our Physical Infrastructure field services.
● Voice – ownership of our digital, analogue and IPT Voice & Unified Comms services.
● Video – ownership of our Video conferencing services, procedural video services including pre-recorded evidence.
● Hybrid Cloud – ownership of our Azure hosting offer, on-premise hosting, testing and monitoring and integration services
● Infrastructure Automation Team – ownership of our AWS infrastructure and automation offering.
DISO designs, builds and supports user-centred digital and technology services for the justice system: services that make a real difference to our staff and users. Millions of people every year interact with our services, and DISO plays an important role in improving access to justice and making communication and connectivity experiences simpler and more efficient for all users.
We want to hear from people who want to make a difference by building excellent services that meet user needs and change their experience by creating a simpler, faster and better system for everyone. Our mission is to deliver a world-class justice system that works for everyone in society.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer at MoJ, you will work with colleagues across Technology Services and build strong relationships with Service Owners, Information Security, Customer Service Operational Teams, Delivery Managers, Product Managers and other key stakeholders. You will share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community. You will be comfortable working across multi-disciplinary teams and flexible enough to adjust, at short notice, to immediate demand.
The role will provide a dedicated 3LS support function dealing with service requests, tickets and major incidents. Occasionally you will participate in support during Out of Hours (OoH), for which you’ll be paid an allowance and further payment if dealing with incidents.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
Engineering Management
● You ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures, identify capacity issues, stipulate the required changes, and instigate these. You know how to initiate remedial action.
● You know about information security and can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.
● You can analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes, and lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements. You can help to evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy and standards
● You know how to use a modern standards approach and guide others to use it as well.
● You have designed, implemented and supported infrastructure services to a user base over 10,000 spread across many sites.
Technical Skills
● You collaborate with others to review specifications and use these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the proper standards and tools.
● You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You know how to select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of the right technology, efficient use of resources and the integration of multiple systems and technology.
● You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used.
● You will have knowledge/experience with DHCP/DNS Services and Network Access Control.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Person Specification
Essential
● Proven experience working in a DevOps environment.
● Proven experience providing technical support and assistance to junior staff and users.
● You can apply a modern standards approach competently and guide others.