Registers of Scotland
Senior DevOps Engineer
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Senior DevOps Engineer
Grade: SEO
Total remuneration: £62,301 - £73,353
Pay Supplement: The base salary for this role is £50,243 – 59,156. This job qualifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annual Pay supplement 24% is included in the total remuneration above.
Pension: 28.97% (RoS contribution)
Annual leave: 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Duration: Permanent
Working Pattern: 35 hours per week. We are a flexible employer and will consider a variety of working patterns on a case-by-case basis. For example, compressed hours, term-time working or part-time working.
Location: Hybrid working model. Contractual base either at Meadowbank House, Edinburgh (EH8 7AU), or St Vincent Plaza, Glasgow (G2 5LD).
Department: Development Enablement
Directorate: Digital Data and Technology (DDAT)
Role Reports to: Technical Product Manager
Closing date: 23rd of October 2026 at 09:00 am
Number of vacancies: 1
About Registers of Scotland
Join an award-winning organisation recognised for its technology and innovation. Registers of Scotland is a world-leading pioneer in land and property registration. Our full-stack teams design, architect, and build all our registration products in-house. We work to create digital solutions for the people of Scotland. You will get an opportunity to nurture your creativity and develop with us through access to the latest data, software engineering and product delivery techniques.
This job is for you if you want:
- Work with purpose: working for the people of Scotland to set the bar for land and property registration worldwide.
- Flexible and hybrid working: depending on the role and team requirements, work when and where it’s best for you and your stakeholders.
- Benefits: enjoy pay progression, pension contributions of up to 28.97%, up to a year’s parental leave, and 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
- Investment in professional development: we invest in all our people so that they have the right skills to be productive and confident in their job.
- Diversity and Inclusion: We are an ‘Investor in People’ and a ‘Disability Confident’ employer. We are inclusive, stronger together, and committed to putting our people first.
- Positive work culture: RoS is an agile, digital organisation using leading-edge technology. Colleagues understand their role in achieving our strategy and have the autonomy to deliver.
To learn more about RoS and what we offer visit our careers pages or watch this short video. Hear from our colleagues about their experience of working within our Digital, Data and Technology teams on our website.
Our Tech Stack
Our devs use Ubuntu Linux laptops and Claude Code to produce applications in Java (Spring Boot), Python, Typescript and React, secured at build time with SonarQube and Renovate.
Pipelines using AWS CDK, Terraform, Gitlab CI and Ansible deliver artefacts through Gitlab and Artifactory into native AWS and OpenShift environments, secured at runtime using IAM, Prisma Cloud and Hashicorp Vault.
Our services use EventBridge, Comprehend, SageMaker, storing data with Postgres on AWS RDS and MongoDB.
Italicised text above components largely operated by Development Enablement, the platform engineering team that this role belongs to.
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The Role
Join our innovative tech team as a Senior DevOps Engineer and help shape the experience that our devs have while we deliver services together. We’re looking for an empathetic and experienced engineer to develop and support working systems and services that encapsulate RoS policies and standards and make them rewarding to use. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a talented and collaborative team where you’ll work on interesting projects using modern technologies and have impact beyond your individual contribution. You will have line management responsibility for more junior colleagues and contribute to capability building across the organisation.
The Team
Development Enablement is an enablement team focused on getting good results for about 130 technical doers across a dozen(ish) product delivery teams. Four other enablement teams together support around 1300 staff in RoS.
On a Typical Day You Will…
This role is based on the UK Gov’s DDAT Senior DevOps Engineer: https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/development-operations-devops-engineer#senior-dev-ops-engineer
- Design, implement and improve DevOps tooling and engineering workflows that enable secure, efficient and reliable product delivery, meeting the needs of users, delivery teams and service operators.
- Build, maintain and continuously improve deployment pipelines and release processes so services are repeatable, scalable, resilient and highly available.
- Provide technical leadership and hands on support to multidisciplinary delivery teams, helping to resolve complex engineering issues and improve platform performance, reliability and maintainability.
- Coach, mentor and line manage junior colleagues, supporting their development and contributing to capability building across the wider engineering community.
- Work collaboratively with product, engineering and operational colleagues to apply RoS standards, security requirements and good operational practice across the software lifecycle.
- Manage service components to ensure they meet business needs, performance targets and agreed service levels.
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery processes and contribute to implementing practical, sustainable improvements.
- Design and build solutions with appropriate security controls that reduce risk and help protect services, systems and data.
- Apply modern engineering standards, patterns and ways of working consistently, and support others to do the same.
- Design, code, test and document software or infrastructure solutions of medium to high complexity, using agreed standards, tools and engineering practices.
- Use prototyping as a collaborative team activity to test ideas, explore options and iterate towards effective technical solutions.
- Identify, investigate and resolve complex live service issues, and provide expert advice to others on service support approaches and recovery options.
- Work with user researchers and delivery colleagues to understand user needs, represent users in technical discussions and help shape solutions that improve user outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Essential Criteria – Skills and Attributes for Success
Essential & Technical Experience
We will assess you against the following Experience skills during the application and assessment process:
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Essential Experience
- Significant experience in software, platform or DevOps engineering roles.
- Experience leading platform or infrastructure improvement work.
- Experience supporting agile delivery in cross functional teams.
- Experience mentoring others and contributing to engineering practice.
- Experience delivering measurable service or platform outcomes.
Technical Experience
- Secure, scalable cloud native and containerised platforms.
- CI/CD, automation and infrastructure as code.
- Observability, resilience and operational support.
- Building reusable tooling, APIs and self-service capabilities.
- Writing maintainable infrastructure code and automation scripts.
Behaviours
At application stage, you will be scored against the bolded Behaviours and against the remaining all Behaviours for the assessment:
Leadership
- You will provide technical leadership across platform and DevOps engineering, helping shape ways of working, standards, patterns and that support secure, scalable and reliable delivery.
- You will take ownership of complex work, guide others through ambiguity and support the team to deliver high-quality outcomes across the software lifecycle.
- You will mentor and support colleagues through coaching, pairing, code reviews and knowledge sharing, helping build capability across the wider engineering community, including direct line management of other colleagues.
Managing a Quality Service
- You will design, build and maintain resilient platform services that enable delivery teams to release high-quality software safely and efficiently.
- You will use automation, observability, testing and secure engineering practices to improve service reliability, reduce operational risk and minimise disruption for users.
- You will drive continuous improvement by identifying service issues, learning from incidents and using evidence and feedback to improve platform performance and developer experience.
Making Effective Decisions
- You will make sound technical decisions on platform design, tooling, automation and release approaches, using evidence, engineering insight and business need to guide your judgement.
- You will assess risks, dependencies and trade-offs when resolving problems or planning improvements, balancing pace of delivery with service resilience, security and long term sustainability.
- You will use data, monitoring insight and team input to make informed decisions on priorities, incident response and platform improvements.
Working Together
- You will work closely with developers, product colleagues, security specialists and other stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities that meet shared goals and user needs.
- You will build effective working relationships across multidisciplinary teams, communicating clearly and contributing constructively to technical discussions, planning and problem solving.
- You will support a collaborative team culture by sharing knowledge, valuing different perspectives and contributing to communities of practice and shared engineering initiatives.
Application Process
Stage one - Application
To apply, click on 'Apply now' and complete the online application form. You will need to submit:
- A CV outlining your career history and how you meet the Essential criteria (max 4 pages).
- Your responses for the application questions in our application system. 1 will assess your experience and 1
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