Senior DevOps
| Posting date: | 01 April 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: | 13 April 2026 |
| Location: | Sheffield |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 454970/3 |
Summary
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.
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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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