DevOps Engineer

Salary: £47,200 (National) or £51,200 (Croydon) plus skills allowance of up to £10,200 pending assessment. Location: Croydon on a hybrid basis Advert Close: 11:55 pm Sunday 17th May 2026

Please note that this role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years.

👀 What you'll bring to the role 👀

The DevOps Engineer ensures service reliability and performance by maintaining and supporting key components, proactively monitoring metrics, and performing updates to ensure accessibility, stability, and capacity for production and deployment.

A DevOps Engineer will provide guidance on CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, advising developers on best practices to enable secure and efficient deployments. They help streamline automation and software delivery processes, ensuring the platform is effectively utilised.

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. AI: Azure ML Studio, Python, Github Copilot, OpenAI

⭐ Essential skills ⭐

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

Designing and implementing cloud solutions using AWS or Azure, applying best practices for architecture, security, and scalability. (Software design - SWDN) Configuring and maintaining automated testing, scanning, and code analysis tools to support CI/CD and improve software quality. (Testing - TEST) Monitoring applications and responding to incidents using established procedures, ensuring system availability and performance. (Application support - ASUP) Developing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scripts to automate build, deployment, and provisioning activities. (Programming/software development - PROG) Implementing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to enhance software delivery efficiency and reliability. (Systems integration and build - SINT) Applying data management best practices for cloud resources, ensuring structured naming, tagging, metadata, backups, and documentation. (Data management - DATM)

🤩 What's in it for you? 🤩

A civil service pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%. In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements. The ability to potentially adopt flexible working options that suit your work/life balance, plus the opportunity in future to take a career break. 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service. Eight days public holidays, plus one additional privilege day. 26 weeks maternity, adoption or shared parental leave at full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, after qualifying service. Maternity and adoption support leave (also known as paternity leave) of two weeks full pay, after qualifying service. Paid leave for fostering approval processes, support when a child is substantively placed with you plus a foster to adopt policy. Support for guardians and kinship carers. Corporate membership of ‘Employers for Carers’ providing additional information and advice for carers, plus a ‘Carer’s Passport’ to discuss workplace needs and underpin supportive conversations. Time off to deal with emergencies and certain other unplanned special circumstances.

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