DevOps Engineer

Home Office Digital, Data and Technology -

Full-time (Permanent)

£41,600 min-£48,792 max - An additional allowance up to £8,300 is available for candidates with exceptional skills & experience.

Published on

23 November 2023

Deadline

4 December 2023

🚀 What you'll be doing 🚀

As a DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for the design and implementation of applications' build, release, deployment and configuration activities.

You'll work alongside our architects, technical leads and product leaders to ensure all of this is in place.

You will be involved in building, managing and updating a shared Kubernetes platform, as well as creating reusable pipelines for automated testing and deployment.

👀 About you 👀

We’re more interested in people who understand the methodology and fundamentals rather than specific tools. You’ll be ideal for this role if you have a demonstrable passion for automation and collaboration, with skills or experience in:

· Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) Architecture and Services Provided

· Working knowledge Git / source control

· Consuming Container Orchestration Solutions (Kubernetes / ECS / EKS / Openshift)

· CI/CD pipelines - ideally Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab etc.

· Scripting (any of the following) Bash, Perl, Python or Go

· Working in an agile way following DevOps principles

What we're offering

To sweeten the offer, we’re one of the largest consumers of cloud services in the UK, and we make use of many vendors and technologies. We understand that continuous learning is extremely important to you as an engineer. To support you we will give you the materials and time to grow yourself. Additionally, you’ll have the support of a rapidly growing engineering community!

You can also take a look at our recent blog post on DevOps within the Home Office:

https://hodigital.blog.gov.uk/2020/09/15/what-are-we-doing-in-devops-at-the-home-office

💜 Some of the benefits our engineers enjoy 💜

A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
25 days annual leave on appointment, plus 8 days public holidays and 1 day for the King’s Birthday, rising further with service
Flexible working options to enable you to achieve the work life balance that right for you including part-time, flexi time and job sharing
Training and development opportunities tailored to your role
An in-year bonus scheme
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

This link is to a short guide on YouTube to employee benefits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHT1g1Ph0f0