DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 12 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,614 to £58,347 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 May 2025 |
| Location: | S3 7UF |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 402651/6 |
Summary
Are you passionate about continuous improvement, automation and removing toil?
Do you enjoy introducing new digital tools and methodologies through the software lifecycle?
Can you work with multi-disciplinary teams?
If so, this job could be for you!
We’re looking for outstanding DevOps Engineers who want to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government.
The products we build are the changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.
As a DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for the design and implementation of applications' build, release, deployment and configuration activities.
We’re looking for a driven and passionate DevOps Engineers who would like to be part of teams delivering real value to people that need help during the difficult times of their lives.
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.
In your day-to-day role as a DevOps Engineer, you will:
- Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery, assure and implement deployment strategies and apply different techniques to methods in analysing and resolving problems, working up new practices and procedures or modify existing processes to improve performance.
- Resolve issues to ensure citizen-facing services are repeatable, scalable, resilient and highly available.
- Communicate with a range of people inside the Department to produce comprehensive technical documentation for wider consumption.
- Work across a number of section and support product teams to write code that is simple and flexible to build, configure and deploy.
- Contribute to community discussions about DevOps best practice within Engineering.
- Collaborate across teams and liaise with Lead/Senior DevOps Engineers and Technical Architects to investigate technical solutions.
- Contribute toward a DevOps culture and automation best practices.
Within our Data Insight and Analytics team there are exciting opportunities to be part of building a capability for the development and deployment of analytics driven controls such as those supporting payment accuracy, and ambitions to reduce fraud, error and debt, and additionally roles to build and iterate the strategic capability for MI reporting and visualisations across the entire Department. This capability includes:
- Data integrations and pipelines.
- Analytics and MI workspaces – where data scientists and MI development teams can develop analytics logic and machine learning models.
- Deployment environments – where analytics logic and models, and MI products can be deployed and monitored in production – with the former integrating directly into citizen facing digital services.
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