Development Ops Manager
| Posting date: | 25 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £60,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 July 2025 |
| Location: | S8 0XN |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | St John Ambulance |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 281846JCP |
Summary
DevOps Engineer Manager - Permanent
Full Time - Hybrid Working
Our offer to you
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:
Competitive salary and pension scheme
33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
Hybrid, Flexible working
Cycle to work scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme
Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping
About Us
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,700 employees and over 29500 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.
St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.
Job Summary
The postholder is responsible for leading the development of high-quality software and managing and supporting our technology platforms and systems as part of the DevOps team. Working within multifunctional DevOps Squads they will develop scalable solutions adhering to best practice design principles and coding standards and ensure exceptional service and solution delivery.
With exposure across the full development lifecycle, they work on a variety of projects and programmes. They provide technical leadership and line management to support the DevOps Engineers across the team.
The post-holder works to challenging deadlines; leveraging and utilising existing and new technology platforms to their fullest; keep up to date with external legislative requirements; and ensuring minimum interruption to all services at all times.
About You
To be successful in this role, education to Degree in computing or related subject; or equivalent relevant commercial experience, ITIL Foundation certified or equivalent experience working with ITIL in a commercial setting, experience in working to a DevOps Methodology, experience in code review, optimization, branching and release lifecycle & Excellent depth of technical skills, and able to apply SOLID principles when designing new solutions.
About the Role
Working closely with the Head of DevOps to Lead and line manage the DevOps Engineers
Work to a DevOps methodology within assigned squads under the direction of the Product Owner
Provide technical design input and leadership for new solutions or changes to existing systems
Lead technical development on key projects, working alongside existing team members and providing coaching and support where require
Contribute towards the Technical Solution design where appropriate, to include security, platforms and technical stacks, ensuring alignment with the overall technical strategy, business operations and associated processes
Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)
Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk
If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here
For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.
Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.
Full Time - Hybrid Working
Our offer to you
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:
Competitive salary and pension scheme
33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
Hybrid, Flexible working
Cycle to work scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme
Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping
About Us
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,700 employees and over 29500 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.
St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.
Job Summary
The postholder is responsible for leading the development of high-quality software and managing and supporting our technology platforms and systems as part of the DevOps team. Working within multifunctional DevOps Squads they will develop scalable solutions adhering to best practice design principles and coding standards and ensure exceptional service and solution delivery.
With exposure across the full development lifecycle, they work on a variety of projects and programmes. They provide technical leadership and line management to support the DevOps Engineers across the team.
The post-holder works to challenging deadlines; leveraging and utilising existing and new technology platforms to their fullest; keep up to date with external legislative requirements; and ensuring minimum interruption to all services at all times.
About You
To be successful in this role, education to Degree in computing or related subject; or equivalent relevant commercial experience, ITIL Foundation certified or equivalent experience working with ITIL in a commercial setting, experience in working to a DevOps Methodology, experience in code review, optimization, branching and release lifecycle & Excellent depth of technical skills, and able to apply SOLID principles when designing new solutions.
About the Role
Working closely with the Head of DevOps to Lead and line manage the DevOps Engineers
Work to a DevOps methodology within assigned squads under the direction of the Product Owner
Provide technical design input and leadership for new solutions or changes to existing systems
Lead technical development on key projects, working alongside existing team members and providing coaching and support where require
Contribute towards the Technical Solution design where appropriate, to include security, platforms and technical stacks, ensuring alignment with the overall technical strategy, business operations and associated processes
Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)
Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk
If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here
For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.
Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.