Senior DevOps Engineer in City of Westminster

Location: National

Closing Date: 4th October

1st-stage Interviews (subject to change): w/c 19th October

Grade: 7 (MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: National: £58,511 - £65,329 (which may include an allowance of up to £6,339) London: £63,343 - £70,725 (which may include an allowance of up to £6,207)

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 8

Vacancy number: 22440

We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office.

The Role

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. We’re recruiting for multiple Senior DevOps Engineers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science, to be part of our warm and collaborative Hosting Platform Teams. This role aligns against the Senior DevOps Engineer role from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

The MoJ’s strategic hosting platforms are transforming the department’s ability to deliver digital services, by providing hosting services with ops tools and best practices embedded. The value the teams deliver is multiplied across hundreds of services that make the justice system better for users. We use modern best practices like DevOps, agile and GitOps. We work in the open and prefer modern open source tools. We have a Platform dedicated to hosting new applications using cloud native architectures, and platforms in AWS and Azure, designed to enable legacy applications to benefit from the same, modern approach to public cloud hosting, optimising costs and environmental impact.

About Us: At Justice Digital, Data and Science, we're dedicated to leveraging technology to drive impactful change across the justice system. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing access to justice and improving outcomes for users through innovative digital solutions.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll be working on our acclaimed open-source public services, with user needs at the heart of everything, helping us transform Government for the future.
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll be helping define how we do what we do, and making sure that our systems are built to be changed rapidly.
• Collaboration: You’ll collaborate closely with software developers, product managers, designers, delivery managers, technical architects and content specialists who share our vision of leveraging technology to transform government services.

You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
• 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours.
• Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
• 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.
• 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.
• Maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior DevOps engineer, you will:

• Help build and run user-centred, open-source, secure web systems to serve a variety of citizen and government needs.
• Be responsible for automating the deployment of systems that follow standard patterns, or components of systems that are more complex.
• Manage infrastructure for multiple environments through code.
• Build tools to automate infrastructure management tasks.
• Support delivery teams by maintaining infrastructure-as-code patterns and automation that are repeatable, auditable, and easy to adopt.
• Identify sources of friction in build, deployment and operational workflows and address them through improvements to tooling, defaults and self-service patterns.

People:

• Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developers, and maintain DevOps culture.
• Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance.
• Help with hiring, taking part in recruitment of other web operations engineers and technical staff.
• Participate in the professional development of themselves and support the growth of others.
• Participate in 2nd line support during office hours, and sometimes out of hours.

Person Specification

You will have:

• A systematic approach to solving problems.
• Experience managing infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform.
• Experience of version control technologies such as Git.
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with a programming language such as Go, Python, Ruby or Javascript.
• Experience working and leading tasks in a mixed skillset team.
• Experience of working with container orchestration.
• Experience of continuous delivery methods and deployment processes.

Engaging people: Building capability for all.

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.

How to Apply

In Justice Digital, Data and Science, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We shall assess a combination of your Experience, Technical skills and Behaviours during the assessment process.

Stage 1 - Application and sift: To apply for this position, you must submit the following as part of your application:

• A CV detailing your career history (including any relevant qualifications).
• Your CV will be assessed against the essential criteria outlined within the Person Specification of this advert.
• A Personal Statement (no more than 750 words) which should outline your experience and skills, giving clear examples of work undertaken.

Stage 2 - Interviews: Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to the 1st-stage, virtual interview via Teams, which will assess your “Experience of working with container orchestration” and your “Experience of continuous delivery methods and deployment processes”.