Lead Technical Recruiter (Digital Data and Technology DDaT) - for Engineering, Quality Assurance and Test (QAT) and UCD Professions at UK Home Office

The Senior DevOps Engineer ensures service reliability and performance by maintaining, designing, and building key components in line with standards, ensuring security and effective monitoring. Collaborating with architects and teams, they clarify design constraints, workforce needs, and cost implications during discovery phases.

They provide guidance on CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, enabling efficient and secure deployments for new users, ensuring automation, and streamlined software delivery processes.

They share common responsibilities in automation, reliability, and infrastructure management with other DevOps colleagues.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.

What will you be doing?

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Supporting teams in mapping their stories to available platforms, ensuring effective and secure service deployment.
• Developing and maintaining hardened base containers, undertaking skilled platform build and support activities.
• Identifying gaps in best practices, advising teams on delivery risks and recommending improvements.
• Assisting engineers with service topology discovery, helping define quality assurance (QA) and deployment pipelines.
• Driving adoption of new tools and technologies, improving teams’ integration approaches.
• Developing and enhance support processes, ensuring better user experience and operational efficiency.

Your skills for this role

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for DevOps culture, with the following skills or strong experience in:

• Leading the design, implementation, and review of complex cloud solutions using AWS or Azure, ensuring alignment with best practices for architecture and scalability.
• Driving the implementation of automated testing, scanning, and code analysis tooling, and providing guidance on best practices to ensure continuous integration and code quality.
• Identifying and enforcing the use of processes, procedures, and tooling for application monitoring, ongoing maintenance, and incident response to ensure high availability and performance.
• Devising and leading the implementation of data management processes and standards for cloud resources, covering areas like naming, tagging, metadata management, backups, and documentation for compliance and efficiency.
• Designing, coding, testing, maintaining, and documenting scripts and infrastructure-as-code definitions to automate build, deployment, and provisioning activities, enhancing operational workflows.
• Specifying and leading the implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring alignment with best practices to facilitate automated and efficient deployment cycles.

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

Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers

Additional Information

This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you typically need to have been resident in the UK for at least three years. Unfortunately we cannot offer sponsorship.

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering, General Business, and Information Technology

Industries

• Government Administration and IT Services and IT Consulting

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