DevOps Engineer - HMRC - SEO

Location

Croydon - Ruskin Square
Stratford Regional Centre - Westfield Avenue

About the job

Job summary

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As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, securing, and optimising cloud infrastructure and development workflows across AWS and private cloud environments. This will include: 

DevOps Pipeline Design & Implementation

• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for AWS and private cloud platforms.
• Ensure seamless deployment across development, UAT, and production environments. 

Security & Governance

• Champion DevSecOps best practices across all environments.
• Define and enforce Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) policies.
• Manage credentials securely for distributed development teams.
• Establish governance frameworks for API lifecycle management. 

Cloud Infrastructure & Hosting

• Design and maintain secure cloud environments tailored to each stage of development.
• Advise on optimal AWS hosting models, including Lambda functions, Container Apps and App services. 

Infrastructure Automation

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates to ensure consistency and scalability.

Team Enablement & Collaboration

• Create onboarding documentation and runbooks to support a growing engineering team.
• Collaborate closely with security, product teams, and external developers to ensure smooth integration and delivery.

Job description

Your key responsibilities will be as follows: 

Infrastructure & Platform Development

• Design and evolve infrastructure aligned with platform strategy.
• Support infrastructure services throughout the product lifecycle.
• Translate architectural designs into operational solutions in collaboration with technical architects. 

DevOps Transformation & Project Leadership

• Lead and support programmes and projects.
• Guide teams in adopting DevOps practices and workflows.
• Work across teams to define and refine engineering standards. 

Team Collaboration & Support

• Provide services and support across a hybrid estate (on-premises and cloud).
• Assist infrastructure specialists in building and maintaining compliant solutions.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and mentor junior colleagues. 

Leadership & Capability Building

• Share specialist knowledge and actively upskill team members.
• Promote engineering ownership of infrastructure alongside software development.
• Define training opportunities and provide pastoral support.
• Mentor engineers and trainee DevOps professionals.

Cloud, Security & Compliance

• Enhance hybrid cloud services for platform independence and cost efficiency.
• Ensure systems are secure, resilient, and disaster-ready.
• Maintain compliance with regulatory standards and best practices.

 Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

• Communicate effectively across all levels of the organisation.
• Present Management Information (MI) clearly and confidently.

Person specification

Essential Criteria 

DevOps & Engineering Practices 

• Proven experience with DevOps methodologies and CI/CD tools (e.g. GitLab). 
• Skilled in version control systems and modern programming languages (e.g. Python, TypeScript). 
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly Terraform. 
• Experienced in identifying process improvements and contributing to best practice development. 

Problem Solving & Technical Diagnostics 

• Strong lateral thinking skills to break down problems and diagnose root causes. 
• Proficient in troubleshooting across diverse technology stacks: compute, storage, networking, COTS, and open-source software. 

Testing & Quality Assurance 

• Capable of planning and coordinating system and acceptance testing, covering both functional and non-functional specifications. 
• Provides authoritative advice and guidance on test planning. 

System Design & Architecture 

• Designs systems with appropriate levels of risk, impact, and complexity. 
• Selects and applies suitable design standards, methods, and tools effectively. 
• Reviews system designs to ensure optimal technology choices, resource efficiency, and integration. 

Leadership & Collaboration 

• Experienced in leading, guiding, and supporting engineers in agile, multi-disciplinary teams. 
• Actively shares knowledge and promotes good practice across the engineering community. 

Security Clearance 

• Must hold or be eligible for SC Security Clearance and willing to obtain Developed Vetting if required.

Desirable Criteria: 

• Have academic and industry qualifications that evidence your ability, expertise and credibility, such as a degree in a software engineering, cyber security, digital forensics or related subject, and/or industry qualifications like AWS Certifications at Foundation and Practitioner levels, GIAC (e.g. GAWN, GREM, GCIH, GCTI), OSCP, OCWP, etc.
• Experience working with project management tools
• Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.
• Exposure to, or experience working with project management tools (eg. Jira, MS Project)