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Senior DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Job details
Posting date: 19 March 2026
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: 31 March 2026
Location: Sheffield
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 452835/3

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Summary

Home Office Government Digital and Data designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles, and property.

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. Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert.  

Watch this short video to hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital.

The Senior DevOps Engineer ensures service reliability and performance by maintaining, designing, and providing expertise in line with standards, ensuring reliability, security and effective monitoring. Collaborating with architects and teams, they clarify design constraints and non-functional requirements, workforce needs, and cost implications during discovery and delivery phases.

They address operational and infrastructural challenges by enhancing system reliability, monitoring performance, and implementing resilience strategies.

They share common responsibilities in automation, reliability, and infrastructure management with other DevOps colleagues.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will be part of a “center of excellence”, helping other teams implement SRE practices. They 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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