Senior DevOps
| Posting date: | 03 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £62,109 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £62,109 London: £66,229 You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £18,291. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 February 2026 |
| Location: | Sheffield |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 446001/3 |
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.
Where business needs allow some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office.
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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 provide guidance on CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, enabling efficient and secure deployments for new users, ensuring automation, and streamlined software delivery processes.
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.
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 Cassandra, Neo4J, Amazon Athena
- DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Dynatrace
- AI: Azure ML Studio, Python, Github Copilot, OpenAI
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