DevOps

We are looking for people who are passionate about Engineering to join our community led team in Shared Applications Service (SAS). You will work in agile multidisciplinary teams with over 200 engineers in a modern cloud environment using the latest technologies. Our purpose as a team is to bring technical understanding in-house for over 600 Home Office applications.

You could be creating and maintaining some of the most critical public services in the United Kingdom and transforming how we use data and technology to improve these. We are responsible for designing, building and supporting solutions to help people prove their identity or apply for visas. You could also be working on critical IT systems that support policing and counter terrorism, which helps protect UK borders.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office. Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert.

Watch this short video to hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital.

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.

Main Responsibilities

Your main day to day responsibilities will be

• Supporting teams in effectively using platform services, ensuring secure and reliable deployments.
• Developing and maintaining automation scripts and hardened base containers for various systems and frameworks.
• Providing hands-on technical support, troubleshooting platform use and configuration issues.
• Advising developers on configuring CI/CD pipelines and best practices for integrating with platform services.
• Contributing to routine monitoring activities, identifying performance improvements and security enhancements.
• Ensuring adherence to organisational standards, maintaining high service quality and reliability.

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

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Backend

Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power platform.

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Frontend

React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular.

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Data

PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra.

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Ops

AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform.

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AI

Azure ML Studio, Python, Github Copilot, OpenAI

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