Senior DevOps - Oracle
| Posting date: | 07 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £60,300 to £70,730 per year |
| Additional salary information: | London: £64,300 - £70,730, National: £60,300 - £66,330. You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance of up to £20,100 pending a Capability and Skills Assessment. New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the pay ran |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 415129/2 |
Summary
You could be creating and maintaining some of the most critical public services in the United Kingdom and transforming how we use data and technology to improve these. We are responsible for designing, building and supporting solutions to help people prove their identity or apply for visas. You could also be working on critical IT systems that support policing and counter terrorism, which helps protect UK borders.
The Senior DevOps Engineer ensures service reliability and performance by maintaining, designing, and building key components in line with standards, ensuring security and effective monitoring. Collaborating with architects and teams, they clarify design constraints, workforce needs, and cost implications during discovery phases.
They share common responsibilities in automation, reliability, and infrastructure management with other DevOps colleagues.
The Senior DevOps Engineer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.
When required, they work long-term with teams to optimise workflows, improve efficiency, and ensure seamless operations across the organisation by leveraging cloud infrastructure, automating platform services, and maintaining scalable environments.
We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:
- Database and Infrastructure: Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management), Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Grid Infrastructure, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
- Cloud: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), OCI Compute, OCI Virtual Cloud Network (VCN), OCI DB Systems, OCI Object Storage, OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- DevOps: Terraform, Ansible, Shell scripting (Bash), Python, OCI Command Line Interface (CLI), Jenkins, GitLab CI, Git (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), Sonar Qube.
- Monitoring: Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Grafana, OCI Monitoring.
What you will do
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
- Assisting teams in mapping their workloads to cloud platforms, ensuring secure, scalable, and efficient deployments.
- Developing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, including hardened base containers and automated provisioning.
- Identifying and addressing cloud architecture inefficiencies, advising teams on best practices and mitigating delivery risks.
- Supporting engineers in service topology discovery, helping define quality assurance (QA), deployment, and infrastructure pipelines.
- Driving the adoption of cloud-native tools and automation, enhancing integration, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Developing and refining cloud support processes, improving reliability, observability, and user experience.
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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