Head of DevOps - Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS)
| Posting date: | 29 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £76,117 per year |
| Additional salary information: | New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the salary band minimum £76,117 for National roles. You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £19,483. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 May 2026 |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 458400/1 |
Summary
The Head of DevOps role provides senior technical and strategic leadership across this space, sitting at the intersection of infrastructure engineering, platform operations, delivery, and assurance. The role is central to enabling the delivery of the Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS) Programme, supporting this complex programme while simultaneously maintaining business critical live services. The role ensures that platforms and environments are secure, resilient, automatable and fit for both change and scale, while enabling delivery teams to move faster with confidence.
Within the LEDS Programme, the role works closely with architecture, engineering, security, service management, and suppliers to ensure that platform capability, resilience and operability are designed in and maintained. It is also a key leadership role in shaping DevOps culture, standards and ways of working across LEDS and adjacent programmes.
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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As Principal DevOps, you are responsible for key elements of our platforms, CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines and overall automation approaches. Your role is to support the delivery, update or evolution of these systems as well as to provide expert technical advice. You will also be expected to set the technical direction for our future platforms, be this through hands on delivery or design.
You will frequently collaborate with and take part in planning with senior business stakeholders to ensure that security, stability and capacity are embedded in the development and deployment of services. You will identify and explore opportunities for technology service and business improvement.
We would especially encourage applications from candidates with strong experience in:
- AWS, account management, tagging, security policies.
- Kubernetes, particularly EKS, and cluster plugins.
- Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform with experience of Helm charts.
- Amazon data service such as Aurora, S3 and Opensearch.
- Networking knowledge such as Route 53, Privatelink, Load Balancers and VPCs.
- CI/CD tooling such as GitLab and Jenkins
- Observability and monitoring tooling such as Prometheus, Alertmanager and Cloudwatch. Grafana Dashboarding.
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