Senior DevOps Engineer

The Senior DevOps Engineer ensures service reliability and performance by maintaining, designing, and building key components in line with standards, ensuring security and effective monitoring. Collaborating with architects and teams, they clarify design constraints, workforce needs, and cost implications during discovery phases.

They provide guidance on CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, enabling efficient and secure deployments for new users, ensuring automation, and streamlined software delivery processes.

They share common responsibilities in automation, reliability, and infrastructure management with other DevOps colleagues.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.

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: 

• Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power Platform
• Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular 
• Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, Neo4J, Amazon Athena
• DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Dynatrace
• AI: Azure ML Studio, Python, Github Copilot, OpenAI  

Main responsibilities 

• Supporting teams in mapping their stories to available platforms, ensuring effective and secure service deployment.
• Developing and maintaining hardened base containers, undertaking skilled platform build and support activities.
• Identifying gaps in best practices, advising teams on delivery risks and recommending improvements.
• Assisting engineers with service topology discovery, helping define quality assurance (QA) and deployment pipelines.
• Driving adoption of new tools and technologies, improving teams’ integration approaches.
• Developing and enhance support processes, ensuring better user experience and operational efficiency.