DevOps Engineer - MoJ - SEO
Government Digital & Data -
Location
East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber
About the job
Job summary
This position is based Nationally
Job description
DevOps Engineer
Location: National*
Closing Date: 9th July
Interviews: W/C 28th July (subject to change)
Grade: SEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £47657 - £56050 (which may include an allowance of up to £8393). National: £41463 - £51675 (which may include an allowance of up to £10212)
Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working, job share.
Contract Type: Permanent
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
We’re recruiting for a DevOps Engineer here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Digital Infrastructure and Security Operations (DISO) team.
This role aligns against Junior DevOps Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
The DISO service areas are:
· WAN – ownership of our Wide Area Network and Gateway services both internally & externally provided.
· LAN – ownership of our wired & WiFi Local Area Network services both internally & externally provided, and our Physical Infrastructure field services.
· Voice – ownership of our digital, analogue and IPT Voice & Unified Comms services.
· Video – ownership of our Video conferencing services, procedural video services including pre-recorded evidence.
· Hybrid Cloud – ownership of our Azure hosting offer, on-premise hosting, testing and monitoring and integration services
· Infrastructure Automation Team – ownership of our AWS infrastructure and automation offering.
DISO designs, builds and supports user-centred digital and technology services for the justice system: services that make a real difference to our staff and users. Millions of people every year interact with our services, and DISO plays an important role in improving access to justice and making communication and connectivity experiences simpler and more efficient for all users.
We want to hear from people who want to make a difference by building excellent services that meet user needs and change their experience by creating a simpler, faster and better system for everyone. Our mission is to deliver a world-class justice system that works for everyone in society.
As a DevOps Engineer at MoJ, you will work with colleagues across Technology Services and build strong relationships with Service Owners, Information Security, Customer Service Operational Teams, Delivery Managers, Product Managers and other key stakeholders. You will share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community. You will be comfortable working across multi-disciplinary teams and flexible enough to adjust, at short notice, to immediate demand.
The role will provide a dedicated 3LS support function dealing with service requests, tickets and major incidents. Occasionally you will participate in support during Out of Hours (OoH), for which you’ll be paid an allowance and further payment if dealing with incidents.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Engineering Management
· You ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures, identify capacity issues, stipulate the required changes, and instigate these. You know how to initiate remedial action.
· You understand the importance of security by design and Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. Working within a team, you can identify security threats and solutions to services.
· You can analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes, supported by a team to deliver service improvements. You can help to evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy and standards
· You know how to use a modern standards approach
Technical Skills
· You collaborate with others to review specifications and use these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the proper standards and tools.
· You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You know how to select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of right technology, efficient use of resources and the integration of multiple systems and technology.
· You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used.
· Interest in learning software development methodologies such as agile.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
- 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
- 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
- Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
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- 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
- 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!
- Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
- SPIRIT
- Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
- Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
- 5 days volunteering paid leave.
- Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.
Essential
· A systematic approach to solving problems.
· Awareness of modern development and deployment techniques.
· Awareness of infrastructure as code principles.
· Experience working in a mixed skillset team.
· Awareness of version control technologies such as Git.
· Awareness of the use of containers and minimal operating systems.
· Awareness of cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
· Awareness of data and application security.
· Experience with a programming language such as PHP, Go, Python, Javascript, etc.
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.
Candidates must submit a CV and statement of suitability (of no more than 750 words), which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above. Candidates who do not submit both a CV and a seperate statement of suitability will not be invited to attend an interview.
In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:
· Delivering at Pace
· Developing Self and Others
· Making Effective Decisions
A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.
Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.
This will include a short, in time exercise, using pseudo code at the start, details of which will be released once invited to interview.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on the following criteria will be conducted before the sift -
- A systematic approach to solving problems.
- Awareness of infrastructure as code principles.
- Experience of utilizing cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Awareness of data and application security.
Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.
Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk
Person specification
Please refer to Job Description
