DevOps Engineer

Type:

Contract Working Pattern:

Hybrid (10% on-site, 90% remote) Location:

Oxfordshire Security Clearance:

SC or DV Rate:

Up to £500 per day inside IR35

Role Summary

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll play a central role in delivering secure, scalable, and highly available digital services across government. You will be embedded within a multidisciplinary team to drive automation, build infrastructure as code (IaC), and enable rapid, reliable delivery from discovery through to live operation.

Key Responsibilities Design, build, and manage deployment pipelines and automation using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins. Implement services aligned with GDS standards. Define and maintain environments via Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, Ansible). Collaborate in an Agile manner with developers, architects, and product and delivery teams to support continuous integration, secure builds, and frequent releases. Embed automation in all stages—build, test, deployment, infrastructure management—to drive efficiency and resilience. Promote DevOps best practices, share knowledge, and contribute to...