Senior DevOps

Posting date:	01 April 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:	13 April 2026
Location:	Manchester
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	454970/2

Summary

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.

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 will contribute to and lead activities related to the migration of services to AWS platforms. This includes assessing existing legacy services, identifying modernisation opportunities, and re‑platforming workloads to cloud‑native architectures. They will design and implement secure, scalable, and cost‑efficient AWS solutions using modern engineering patterns such as containerisation, serverless computing, automated IaC deployments, and improved observability.

They will work closely with product, delivery, architecture, and engineering teams to ensure smooth and low‑risk transitions from legacy systems, supporting the adoption of modern platforms and tooling while embedding best practice approaches for resilience, automation, and operational readiness across services.

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, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Dynatrace

AI: Python, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI

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