DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 19 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 July 2025 |
| Location: | Bedford, MK42 9AB |
| Company: | Reed Talent Solutions |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | MaPS00878-337561 |
Summary
DevOps Engineer
c. £64,000 per annum
Bedford Based
Hybrid Working
Permanent
Use your DevOps skills to make a direct impact on society. At the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), we are committed to transforming lives by helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing. We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer to join our team and build the highly available services that make this crucial mission possible.
Working with our architects and development teams, you will be central to designing, building, and maintaining our deployment pipelines and environments. Your expertise will directly empower our delivery teams and advance the DevOps practices that allow us to help millions of people achieve financial stability.
This role is aligned with DDaT – Development operations (DevOps) engineer – DevOps engineer: DevOps engineer - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
You’ll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and development of our deployment pipelines and automation solutions using Azure and open-source tooling.
- Design, build and maintain environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Engage collaboratively in an agile environment, working closely with solution architects, technical leads and developers.
- Implementation of services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
- Contribute to low level design and maintain documentation.
- Peer reviewing IaC developed as part of our workflow.
- Able to self manage including keeping technical knowledge up to date.
- Promoting collaborative working, efficiencies and knowledge transfer.
- Actively participating within the wider community of practice; advocating DevOps best practices and sharing knowledge/experience.
- Engaging with external delivery partners as appropriate.
Skills needed for the role level:
• Availability and capacity management. You can manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets. (Skill level: working)
• Development process optimisation. You can explain the importance of developing process efficiency and the common ways in which processes are optimised, can support specific activities to improve development processes and identify obvious deficiencies (Skill level: awareness)
• Information security. You can design solutions and services with security controls included, specifically engineered to mitigate security threats. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Modern standards approach. You can explain the most important principles of modern development standards and how they apply to your work and apply apply modern development standards principles under guidance (Skill level: working)
• Programming and build (software engineering). You can collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications. You can use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Prototyping. You can approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You can establish design patterns and iterate them. You can use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Service support. You can identify, locate and fix complex service faults. (Skill level: practitioner)
• Systems design. You can produce detailed designs and translate logical designs into physical designs, effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools including prototyping tools where appropriate. You can design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact and work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns. (Skill level: working)
• Systems integration. You can build and test simple interfaces between systems and work on more complex integration as part of a wider team. (Skill level: working)
• User focus. You can identify and engage with users or stakeholders to collate user needs evidence, understand and define research that fits user needs and use quantitative and qualitative data about users to turn user focus into outcomes. (Skill level: working)
You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience;
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in the build and optimisation of pipelines (ideally in Azure DevOps).
- Experience working with Cloud Services such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
- Coding background, with experience in a language such as Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, React or PowerShell.
- Demonstrable commitment to high quality, robust engineering practices.
- Experience working within an agile development team.
- Experience of productive collaboration with design, testing, product and other digital delivery colleagues.
Desirable
- Experience with JavaScript and building/deploying/scaling React-based applications (or similar).
- Experience in provisioning and managing infrastructure through IaC (e.g. BiCep, terraform).
- Experience working within a monorepo environment and tooling such as NX or turborepo.
- Experience working with PaaS products such as Netlify or Vercel.
- Experience with bash scripting.
- Experience with git version control.
- Experience in a DevOps or senior developer role.
About Us:
The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is based in Bedford, in a recently renovated modern office. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to become an integral part of a dynamic organisation, working to help people across the UK.
At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting, and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves with our values:
- Caring
We care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform. - Connecting
We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections. - Transforming
We are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.
Our Inclusive Working Environment:
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds. We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity, and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”
Our colleague and ally networks encompass LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health, ethnicity, and diversity.
What We Offer
• Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
• Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary)
• Interest-free loan for season tickets for buses and trains
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
• Life assurance scheme
• Give as you earn scheme
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
• Enhanced family and sick pay
• Paid volunteering (2 days a year)
• Recognition Scheme
• Discounts portal to numerous retailers
Flexible Working
At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. As standard, we work on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and our headquarters in Bedford will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs, but personal and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
Career Development
In MaPS, we take career development seriously. We actively encourage and support applications from our existing MaPS colleagues. However, we do follow the Civil Service Commissioner recruitment principles, which means that you will be required to participate in a full, open, and fair process.
Reserve List
If you are successful at interview, we operate a reserve list where your details will be held for up to 6 months. Should a vacancy come available in that time with the same essential criteria, reserve list candidates will be offered that position with no further assessment required.
Application Process
The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Money and Pensions Service via email: recruitment@maps.org.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.
Job Reference: MaPS00878
Close Date: 03/07/2025
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