Associate DevOps - FinOps
| Posting date: | 27 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,300 to £44,191 per year |
| Additional salary information: | New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the salary band minimum: £37,300 for National Roles. London Pay £41,300 - £44,191 Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA): Up to £5,000 is available for candidates who demonstrate exceptional ski |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 June 2025 |
| Location: | Croydon |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 407653/2 |
Summary
This Associate DevOps with FinOps role is responsible for supporting our platforms. Your role is to resolve tickets relating to the maintenance of the platforms, often needing to make updates to resolve the issues reported. Collaborating with architects, engineers, and finance teams, they assist in maintaining service reliability and cost efficiency in our cloud infrastructure.
You will work under the guidance of your technical peers, developing your understanding of our platforms, pipelines and automation approaches.
FinOps in DDaT is a key practice that ensures cloud investments drive maximum business value through financial accountability and data-driven decision-making. It fosters collaboration between engineering, finance, and business teams to increase cost visibility and optimize cloud spending without compromising performance.
As an Associate DevOps with FinOps, you will support cloud cost efficiency while contributing to operational resilience. Collaborating with SRE and Cloud Platform teams, you will assist in capacity planning, help optimize provisioning, and learn to embed financial accountability into reliability engineering workflows.
You will assist in using automation and observability tools to monitor cloud expenditure in real time, helping to identify inefficiencies and support cost-effective scaling strategies. Beyond direct cost optimization, you will contribute to financial awareness by learning and sharing FinOps best practices with engineers and supporting cost-conscious cloud infrastructure decisions.
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.
- Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular.
- Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, Neo4J, Amazon Athena.
- DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Dynatrace.
What you will do:
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
- Assist teams in mapping workloads to cloud platforms, ensuring secure, scalable, and cost-effective deployments while learning about FinOps governance and best practices.
- Help develop and maintain cloud infrastructure by writing simple automation components (scripts/playbooks) and embedding financial governance to optimize usage and rates.
- Assist in identifying cloud architecture inefficiencies and provide basic guidance on best practices, delivery risks, and cost optimization strategies.
- Support engineers in service topology discovery and help define quality assurance (QA), deployment, reliability, and cost monitoring frameworks.
- Assist in the development and refinement of cloud support processes, focusing on improving system reliability, observability, incident response, and cost transparency.
- Provide a general awareness of cloud sustainability (GreenOps).
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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