Senior DevOps Engineer

Are you a Senior DevOps Engineer looking to work in valuable/impactful projects on our Police and Public Protection Technology (PPPT) Portfolio? We are looking for people who are passionate about Engineering to work in an agile multidisciplinary teams with over 200 engineers in a modern cloud environment using the latest technologies. You could be creating and maintaining some of the most critical public services in the United Kingdom and transforming how we use data and technology to improve these.

You will be responsible for not only maintaining our platforms, but also designing and building elements of them, working with our architects and standards. You will also consider the security of platforms, monitoring as necessary.

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.

Closing date - 11:55 pm on Sunday 5th January 2025

What you will do

• Support teams in mapping their stories to the available platforms, helping effectively build and deploy secure services.
• Undertake skilled platform build/support activities, such as developing hardened base containers.
• Spot instances where teams are not using best practice; advising around delivery risk.
• Support engineers in service topology discovery; helping to define QA and deployment pipelines.
• Drive adoption of new tools so teams they can improve their integration approaches; developing new or improved support processes for users.
• Mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.

What you will bring

• 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.

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
• DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Service Fabric

Why work for us...

• A highly competitive pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• 25 days annual leave on appointment rising 1 day per year up to 30 days, plus 8 days public holidays and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.
• Flexible working options to enable you to achieve the work life balance that is right for you including; Full time, part-time, flexi time, compressed hours and job sharing.
• A hybrid working model of a minimum 60% of your contracted hours in the workplace and 40% remote.
• Training and development opportunities tailored to your role, including access to technical and professional accreditations.
• Access to funded qualifications (subject to approval)
• A capability allowance reviewed annually.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• Enhanced parental leave schemes.
• Annual performance-based bonus and recognition awards.

This link is to a short guide to employee benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers

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Please note for this role you will require an SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 5 years.