17548 - Senior DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 12 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £58,511 to £70,725 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary range is £58,511 - £65,329, London salary range is £63,343- £70,725. Your salary will be dependent on your base location. London: £63,343 - £70,725 which may include an allowance up to £14,882 National: £58,511 - £65,329 which may include an allowance up to £14,939 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 May 2026 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 17548 |
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: National*
Closing Date: 24th May 2026
Interviews: W/C 8th June 2026
Grade: 7 (MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary**: London: £63,343 - £70,725 which may include an allowance up to £14,882 National: £58,511 - £65,329 which may include an allowance up to £14,939
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Number of vacancies: 4
Vacancy number: 17548
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.
The Role
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. Please click on the link for details.
We’re recruiting for Senior DevOps Engineers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative OPG Digital & LAA Digital teams.
This role aligns against Senior DevOps Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
At Justice Digital, we're dedicated to leveraging technology to drive impactful change across the justice system. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing access to justice and improving outcomes for offenders through innovative digital solutions.
You’ll be working on our acclaimed open-source public services, with user needs at the heart of everything, helping us transform Government for the future. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll be helping define how we do what we do and making sure that our systems are built to be changed rapidly.
You’ll collaborate closely with software developers, product managers, designers, delivery managers, technical architects and content specialists who share our vision of leveraging technology to transform government services.
Our Tech Stack
We use a diverse range of technologies, and we’re seeking individuals who specialise in one or more and are eager to learn new languages and frameworks.
Our tech stack includes:
Cloud infrastructure: AWS
Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform
Containerisation: Docker
CI/CD deployments: GitHub Actions
Application code: Go, PHP, Python, Ruby
Once part of our team, we'll support you in mastering our tech stack, regardless of your current experience. Explore our GitHub for insights into our technologies and the services we develop and maintain.
Join over 150 experienced software and devops engineers who form our vibrant engineering community across the MoJ. You’ll have opportunities to mentor junior colleagues and participate in informal support networks with peers. We encourage active engagement in shaping our engineering culture and community.
We take pride in our supportive and effective line management. Your skills are highly valued, and we’re committed to helping you expand them within the civil service. You'll have opportunities to move between teams or departments, explore new technologies, and take on increased responsibilities aligned with your career goals.
Dive deeper into our work and culture by visiting our Developer Blog
You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:
A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.
Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Senior DevOps engineer, you will:
Technical
Help build and run user-centred, open-source, secure web systems to serve a variety of citizen and government needs
Be responsible for automating the deployment of systems that follow standard patterns, or components of systems that are more complex
Manage infrastructure for multiple environments through code
Build tools to automate infrastructure management tasks
People
Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developers, and maintain DevOps culture.
Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
Help with hiring, taking part in recruitment of other web operations engineers and technical staff
Participate in the professional development of themselves and support the growth of others
Participate in 2nd line support during office hours, and sometimes out of hours (for which you’ll be paid an allowance and further hourly payment when on-call)
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Location: National*
Closing Date: 24th May 2026
Interviews: W/C 8th June 2026
Grade: 7 (MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary**: London: £63,343 - £70,725 which may include an allowance up to £14,882 National: £58,511 - £65,329 which may include an allowance up to £14,939
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Number of vacancies: 4
Vacancy number: 17548
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.
The Role
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. Please click on the link for details.
We’re recruiting for Senior DevOps Engineers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative OPG Digital & LAA Digital teams.
This role aligns against Senior DevOps Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
At Justice Digital, we're dedicated to leveraging technology to drive impactful change across the justice system. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing access to justice and improving outcomes for offenders through innovative digital solutions.
You’ll be working on our acclaimed open-source public services, with user needs at the heart of everything, helping us transform Government for the future. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll be helping define how we do what we do and making sure that our systems are built to be changed rapidly.
You’ll collaborate closely with software developers, product managers, designers, delivery managers, technical architects and content specialists who share our vision of leveraging technology to transform government services.
Our Tech Stack
We use a diverse range of technologies, and we’re seeking individuals who specialise in one or more and are eager to learn new languages and frameworks.
Our tech stack includes:
Cloud infrastructure: AWS
Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform
Containerisation: Docker
CI/CD deployments: GitHub Actions
Application code: Go, PHP, Python, Ruby
Once part of our team, we'll support you in mastering our tech stack, regardless of your current experience. Explore our GitHub for insights into our technologies and the services we develop and maintain.
Join over 150 experienced software and devops engineers who form our vibrant engineering community across the MoJ. You’ll have opportunities to mentor junior colleagues and participate in informal support networks with peers. We encourage active engagement in shaping our engineering culture and community.
We take pride in our supportive and effective line management. Your skills are highly valued, and we’re committed to helping you expand them within the civil service. You'll have opportunities to move between teams or departments, explore new technologies, and take on increased responsibilities aligned with your career goals.
Dive deeper into our work and culture by visiting our Developer Blog
You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:
A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.
Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Senior DevOps engineer, you will:
Technical
Help build and run user-centred, open-source, secure web systems to serve a variety of citizen and government needs
Be responsible for automating the deployment of systems that follow standard patterns, or components of systems that are more complex
Manage infrastructure for multiple environments through code
Build tools to automate infrastructure management tasks
People
Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developers, and maintain DevOps culture.
Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
Help with hiring, taking part in recruitment of other web operations engineers and technical staff
Participate in the professional development of themselves and support the growth of others
Participate in 2nd line support during office hours, and sometimes out of hours (for which you’ll be paid an allowance and further hourly payment when on-call)
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!