Senior DevOps Engineer

You will combine substantial hands-on engineering experience with technical leadership. You will make sound decisions under uncertainty, explain risks and trade-offs clearly, collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams and suppliers, and improve engineering practice through coaching, reusable approaches and constructive challenge.

• Designing, building and operating secure, reliable AWS-based infrastructure and production services, including making and owning decisions throughout their lifecycle.
• Using Terraform to design, manage and improve infrastructure as code, including reusable modules, testing, change control and state management.
• Designing and maintaining CI/CD workflows.
• Applying secure software-delivery and cloud-security practices, including identity and access management, secrets handling, vulnerability management and automated security checks.
• Observability, incident response, recovery, performance and capacity planning.
• Diagnosing complex delivery or operational problems across application, infrastructure and organisational boundaries.
• Providing technical leadership across multiple teams, coaching engineers, setting or improving engineering approaches, and influencing delivery decisions without relying on direct line-management authority.
• Communicating technical decisions, risks and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Containerised, Kubernetes or serverless workloads.
• Creating reusable platform capabilities or self-service tooling.
• Government standards and guidance, including the Service Standard, Technology Code of Practice or NCSC guidance.
• Open source, open standards and working in the open.

£64,811 - £70,677

National £64,811

London £70,677

New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the salary band of £64,811 for National Roles or £70,677 for London Roles.

You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance following the outcome of a Technical Capability and Skills assessment. Allowances vary by assessment outcome, with a maximum value of up to £12,894 (National) or £12,736 (London) available for candidates achieving the highest assessment rating.A digital allowance may also be payable depending on the level of assessed capability, in order to meet the MHCLG overall targeted remuneration rate for the specific grade, location and capability rating.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Alongside your salary of £64,811, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government contributes £18,775 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

At MHCLG we offer many benefits that range from tailored career pathways and flexible working to MyLifestyle Childcare Voucher and Cycle to Work Schemes. For more information, please click here.

• The basic pay for this role will be between £70,677 (London), £64,811(National). Candidates will usually be recruited to the median of the payscale.
• A digital allowance of up to £12,894 (National) or £12,736 (London) may also be payable depending on the level of assessed capability, in order to meet the MHCLG overall targeted remuneration rate for the specific grade, location and capability rating.
• For applicants in receipt of existing allowances, we will assess each case individually, but we would seek not to exceed the MHCLG overall targeted remuneration rate for the specific grade, location and capability rating for existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply, subject to the statements above.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Here at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), we work on things that make a real difference to people's lives. Whether it's through the homes we live in, the work of our local councils, or the communities we're all a part of, our work is at the top of the political agenda.

We have ambitious and far-reaching outcomes to achieve this year and, if you're thinking of joining us, there's never been a more exciting time. We have circa 3,500 staff who are based in 20 offices across the UK.

The Digital Planning Programme is transforming England's planning system through modern, user-centred digital services, shared technology capabilities and better use of data.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will provide hands-on engineering and technical leadership across the Digital Planning Programme. You will help delivery teams build, operate and improve secure, reliable and sustainable services, while creating reusable platform capabilities and engineering approaches that benefit the programme as a whole.

You can explore our platform here Planning Data, and as we work in the open, you can find out what we do here at Digital Land.

Find out more about our Digital teams and what they are working on through our MHCLG Digital blog. Please note that MHCLG do not offer visa sponsorship and applicants will need a valid visa for the duration of your employment.

As a Senior Development Engineer You'll:

• Design, build, operate and improve shared cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities, primarily on AWS.
• Build and maintain automated, repeatable and auditable CI/CD workflows and infrastructure as code.
• Create, document and support the adoption of reusable modules, templates and delivery patterns across programme teams.
• Embed security, observability, resilience, backup, recovery and incident response into live services.
• Work alongside multidisciplinary delivery teams to resolve complex delivery and operational problems, improve reliability and maintainability, and reduce avoidable infrastructure and support costs.
• Provide technical leadership and coaching across teams and suppliers, and support proportionate technical assurance by identifying risks, testing proposed approaches and helping teams meet programme standards.
• Improve developer experience through self-service tooling, clear documentation and secure-by-default ways of working.

Permanent

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Bristol, Darlington, London, Manchester, Wolverhampton

481465

Grade 7

Digital

1

MHCLG has implemented the Digital and Data capability framework for Group 1 roles. Applicants that are successful and have been offered a position will be required to complete a capability assessment after the interview.

MHCLG will honour completed capability assessments for this role from other Government Departments for existing civil servants on level transfer only. Please provide a copy of your capability assessment to the Hiring Manager when applying. If you have any queries on pay, please contact the Hiring Manager.

Each experience or technical skill is assessed between 1-3, representing working towards, at or above the job level requirements. You are awarded a proficiency level accordingly, and you will be given opportunity to annually re assess your capability and potentially increase your overall remuneration, through payment of allowances, depending on level of assessed capability.

Candidates moving from another government department have the option to retain their current basic pay if this is within our pay band for the relevant grade.

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