Senior DevOps Engineer

⏰ Application Deadline: Monday 10th February 2025 at 23:55pm

Are you passionate in designing, building and maintaining platforms that are secure?

The Senior DevOps is responsible for the reliable use of our platforms. Your role is not only to maintain our platforms, but also design and build elements of them, working with our architects and standards. You will also consider the security of platforms, monitoring as necessary.

👀 What will you be doing? 👀

You will support long or short-term discovery within teams and with developers, helping them understand design constrains, and workforce/cost implications. You will advise on the CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, ensuring those new users are able to deploy with appropriate speed. As necessary you may be working with a team long term to ensure effective working and maintain overall workflows.

🚀 Your skills for this role 🚀

As a Senior DevOps, you will have experience of:

• Specifying and leading the implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines according to best practices. (Lead Essential Criteria)

• Leading the design, implementation and review of complex cloud solutions using AWS or Azure according to best practices.

• Leading the implementation of automated testing, scanning and code analysis tooling, and advising on best practices.

• Specifying and ensuring good use of processes, procedures and tooling for application monitoring, maintenance, and incident response.

• Devising and leading implementation of data management processes and standards for cloud resources such as naming, tagging, metadata, backups, and documentation.

• Designing, coding, testing, maintaining and documenting scripts and infrastructure-as-code definitions to automate build and deployment activities.

🙌 Why join us? 🙌

• Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.

• Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.

• Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).

• Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).

• Inclusion and recognition: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.

Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers

Please note: This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you must typically have been resident in the UK for at least five years.

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