Senior Dev Ops Engineer (SEO)
| Posting date: | 30 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £44,241 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The base pay is £44,241. In addition to this the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £14,552. Candidates based in Yeading will receive the London Weighting allowance of £4,000. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 May 2026 |
| Location: | Swansea |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 460048/8 |
Summary
We’re looking for experienced Senior DevOps Engineers to join DVSA’s Cloud Platform team, working with teams to automate, operate, design and build cloud services.
You will be expected to work from requirements, high and low-level design without the need for direct supervision and will be responsible for the development and delivery of well-designed and executed infrastructure, software and data management solutions, using Agile methodologies.
You will coach, support and mentor individuals including Junior/Apprentice engineers and Developers withing the Cloud Infrastructure domain.
You will be committed to quality and will promote quality infrastructure engineering techniques within the team, including pipeline, code and design reviews, reusability of code, refactoring, and use of internal and industry standards.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
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Working in a product-centric development environment, you will bring strong DevOps, Infrastructure and Site Reliability Engineering skills to build, release and maintain services through Development to Production. Operating in Agile Teams and sprint-based release process.
As an experienced DevOps/platform engineer, you will act as a technical specialist and mentor to engineers, adopting an agile approach to delivery where new services or improvements are delivered collaboratively and incrementally to realise business value. Your development will be through a broad range of CI/CD technologies including Azure DevOps, Power Platform, Dynamics, GitHub, Terraform, Jira and confluence.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Deploy services using Infrastructure as Code (including Terraform) and an automation first approach.
- Design, standardise and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD & Dynamics pipelines, including testing, security scanning, compliance checks and reusable templates.
- Support release and application life cycle management processes by deploying artifacts and solutions across multiple environments
- Apply cloud security best practice, support audits and ensure services meet compliance requirements.
- Optimise platform performance, reliability, cost and operational efficiency through proactive monitoring and analysis.
- Provide technical guidance, troubleshoot complex engineering issues and share best practice across teams.
- Provide hands on support and mentorship across teams, helping to resolve complex technical challenges.
- Developing, enhancing and maintain solutions that put the user and user experience first.
- Fostering continuous improvement of services through identification and implementation of strategic end to end system improvements.
- Demonstrate leadership by providing influence, direction, and guidance to Engineers and Developers to support the delivery of objectives.
For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
Open Sessions: Would you like to find out more about the role, the team and what it’s like to work in our department? If so, we are organising an open session where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Wednesday 20th May at 14:00hrs. Sign up here
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