Senior DevOps Engineer (Ref: 76640)

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: National*

Interviews: Multiple 1 stage interviews available from W/C 10th July

Grade: G7

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

Salary: London: £55,720-£67,400 which may include an allowance of up to £11,680 National: £51,767-£62,700 which may include an allowance of up to £10,933

Working pattern: Full time, Part time, Flexible working

Contract Type: Perm

Vacancy number: 76640

*We are currently offering hybrid working which includes 2 days per week in your local office. Office locations can be found HERE

The Role:

We’re recruiting for a Senior DevOps Engineers here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Platforms and Architecture team.

As a DevOps Engineer at Justice Digital, you’ll be supporting the development and operation of centralised platforms and tools that are used across the Ministry of Justice.

In Platforms and Architecture, we run two hosting platforms, the Cloud Platform (for new, modern services) and the Modernisation Platform (for older, legacy services).
We also have our Operations Engineering team, who build and maintain easy-to-adopt shared tooling for service teams.

You can read more about what it’s like to be an Operations Engineer within Justice Digital.

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll work as part of a core multidisciplinary team delivering cutting-edge cloud infrastructure and services for use by teams across the Ministry of Justice. DevOps Engineers can act as a technical product owner, developing short, medium and long term strategies for platforms and services within Justice Digital, alongside identifying, testing, building, and championing the adoption of emerging technologies.

At Justice Digital, you’ll be working on our acclaimed open-source public services, with user needs at the heart of everything we do, helping us to transform government for the future.
 
We’re hiring DevOps Engineers for multiple levels and multiple teams within Justice Digital, including Cloud Platform, Modernisation Platform, and Operations Engineering. We’re happy to talk more about what each team does to find the right fit for you; and if you don’t tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply as we will proactively help you learn our tech stack, and have a Near Miss process we can follow.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025.

Near Miss:

We have a number of roles available, should you be unsuccessful in a role you interviewed for, and if you demonstrated capability for a similar role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss the new opportunity with you, and potentially make you an offer at a lower grade, without the need for a further application.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior DevOps engineer in Justice Digital, you will:

• Help build and run user-centred, open source platforms to serve a variety of citizen and government needs;
• Be responsible for automating the deployment of services that follow standard patterns, or components of systems that are more complex;
• Manage infrastructure for multiple environments through code;
• Manage a small number of less experienced WebOps engineers
• Help with hiring, taking part in recruitment of other web operations engineers and technical staff
• Participate in the professional development of themselves and others
• Lead on and implement development of features pertinent to the platforms
• Build tools to automate infrastructure management tasks;
• Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developers growing awareness, inclusivity and balance;
• Occasionally participate in 2nd line support during office hours, and sometimes out of hours (for which you’ll be paid an allowance and further hourly payment when on call)

If this feels like an exciting opportunity, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Benefits:

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• We are committed to nurturing our staff and provide lots of training and development opportunities with learning platforms such as: Linux Academy, O’Reilly, Pluralsight, Microsoft Learning, Civil Service Learning
• 10% dedicated time to learning and development with a budget of £1000 a year per person
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 26-30% depending on salary.
• 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.
• Option to buy or sell annual leave
• 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.
• Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Careers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and 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.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

Person Specification:

Across Justice Digital, we use a variety of technologies, and we don’t expect anyone to be an expert in anything. If you don’t feel like you meet all of the below, we still encourage you to apply as we will proactively help you learn our tech stack.

We typically use:

• Go, Ruby, Python
• Kubernetes, ECS Fargate, Docker
• AWS and Azure for infrastructure
• Terraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation for infrastructure-as-code
• Mac laptops
• plus many other tools

Essential:

• Have an awareness of the use of programming languages (such as Go, Ruby, or Python)
• Have an understanding of version control (ideally with Git)
• Have an awareness of the use of containers, distributed schedulers, and minimal operating systems
• Have an understanding of container orchestration such as Kubernetes or ECS Fargate
• Have worked with public cloud providers such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud in a production system
• Experience defining a solution using configuration management tools such as Terraform
• Enjoy learning and helping others
• Hold yourself and others to a high standard
• Solve problems in a systematic way
• Have experience working in a fast paced, agile environment Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate on the basis of 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.

Terms & Conditions:

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out the way we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
 
If you have any questions please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Job contact :

• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com
• Telephone : 0845 241 5359

Recruitment team

• Email : Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com