Defence Business Services (DBS) - Development Operations (DevOps) Engineer
| Posting date: | 04 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £44,590 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | A pension contribution of 28.97% based on the listed salary |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2025 |
| Location: | FY5 3WP, BS34 8QW, G2 3EX |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 406332 |
Summary
DBS DIT provides digital capability that supports corporate services across the Ministry of Defence, including Finance, Commercial, Payroll and Human Resources for Military Personnel, Civilian Personnel and Veterans. Our digital solutions comprise enterprise resource planning systems, performance management, analytics, automation, low code applications and public facing services through Gov.uk.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be at the heart of managing and optimising our development processes. Your responsibilities will include overseeing tools and testing environments, managing central code control, maintaining development standards, and writing software that automates systems. You will design secure solutions and deliver complex projects using modern development standards.
Your role will also involve troubleshooting and resolving complex service faults and designing efficient systems with medium levels of risk and complexity. You will actively collaborate with user researchers to champion user-focused design, as well as with technical and solutions architects and software developers.
In addition, you will underpin the development of both internal user services and public-facing services. You will deploy and manage applications on OpenShift and third-party PaaS solutions and manage CI/CD pipelines.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership, effective communication, decision-making skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement and development.
Responsibilities
A Senior DevOps Engineer delivers and integrates software to form a complete DevOps toolchain. They are responsible for planning and designing large groups of stories. At this role level, you will:
Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery
Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available
Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems
Manage service components and optimise development processes to ensure they meet business needs and performance indicators.
Design secure solutions and services with controls specifically engineered to mitigate security threats.
Use modern development standards to design, code, test, and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity.
Identify, locate, and fix complex service faults while advising others on different methodologies and types of service support.
Design systems with medium levels of risk and complexity, ensuring the selection of appropriate technology and efficient resource use.
Collaborate with user researchers to champion user research, prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, and offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
Deploy, manage, and scale applications on OpenShift and third-party Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, while setting up and managing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.
Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
Please note, candidates will be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website where you will need to submit your application form. Please note the closing date above is incorrect and cannot be amended so please check the closing date on Civil Service Jobs and allow enough time to submit your application form.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be at the heart of managing and optimising our development processes. Your responsibilities will include overseeing tools and testing environments, managing central code control, maintaining development standards, and writing software that automates systems. You will design secure solutions and deliver complex projects using modern development standards.
Your role will also involve troubleshooting and resolving complex service faults and designing efficient systems with medium levels of risk and complexity. You will actively collaborate with user researchers to champion user-focused design, as well as with technical and solutions architects and software developers.
In addition, you will underpin the development of both internal user services and public-facing services. You will deploy and manage applications on OpenShift and third-party PaaS solutions and manage CI/CD pipelines.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership, effective communication, decision-making skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement and development.
Responsibilities
A Senior DevOps Engineer delivers and integrates software to form a complete DevOps toolchain. They are responsible for planning and designing large groups of stories. At this role level, you will:
Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery
Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available
Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems
Manage service components and optimise development processes to ensure they meet business needs and performance indicators.
Design secure solutions and services with controls specifically engineered to mitigate security threats.
Use modern development standards to design, code, test, and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity.
Identify, locate, and fix complex service faults while advising others on different methodologies and types of service support.
Design systems with medium levels of risk and complexity, ensuring the selection of appropriate technology and efficient resource use.
Collaborate with user researchers to champion user research, prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, and offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
Deploy, manage, and scale applications on OpenShift and third-party Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, while setting up and managing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.
Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
Please note, candidates will be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website where you will need to submit your application form. Please note the closing date above is incorrect and cannot be amended so please check the closing date on Civil Service Jobs and allow enough time to submit your application form.