Benefits

You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
• 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.
• Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior DevOps engineer, you will:

Technical

• Help build and run user-centred, open-source, secure web systems to serve a variety of citizen and government needs
• Be responsible for automating the deployment of systems that follow standard patterns, or components of systems that are more complex
• Manage infrastructure for multiple environments through code
• Build tools to automate infrastructure management tasks
• Support delivery teams by maintaining infrastructure-as-code patterns and automation that are repeatable, auditable, and easy to adopt
• Identify sources of friction in build, deployment and operational workflows and address them through improvements to tooling, defaults and self-service patterns

People

• Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developers, and maintain DevOps culture.
• Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
• Help with hiring, taking part in recruitment of other web operations engineers and technical staff
• Participate in the professional development of themselves and support the growth of others
• Participate in 2nd line support during office hours, and sometimes out of hours (for which you’ll be paid an allowance and further hourly payment when on-call)

If this feels like an exciting opportunity, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Person Specification

You Will Have

• A systematic approach to solving problems.
• Experience managing infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform.
• Experience of version control technologies such as Git.
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with a programming language such as Go, Python, Ruby or Javascript.
• Experience working and leading tasks in a mixed skillset team.
• Experience of working with container orchestration.
• Experience of continuous delivery methods and deployment processes.
• Engaging people: Building capability for all.

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.