Associate DevOps

Location: Sheffield (hybrid)

Salary: £37,300 plus an allowance of up to £5000 for candidates with exceptional skills

Close Date: 10th July 2025

Job Summary

Join our community-led team in Shared Applications Service (SAS) as an Associate DevOps Engineer. You'll collaborate in agile, multidisciplinary teams alongside 200+ engineers, working in a modern cloud environment with cutting-edge technologies. Our mission is to build in-house technical expertise for over 600 Home Office applications.

You’ll help deliver and maintain critical public services—from identity verification and visa applications to systems supporting policing and counter-terrorism—enhancing how we use data and technology to serve the UK.

Job Description

As an Associate DevOps Engineer, you’ll support and maintain our platforms by resolving tickets and implementing updates. Guided by experienced engineers, you’ll develop your knowledge of our platforms, pipelines, and automation practices.

Technologies We Use

We support continuous learning and use a wide range of tools, including:

• Backend: C#, Python
• Frontend: React, JavaScript, TypeScript
• Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB
• DevOps: Kubernetes, Azure, Docker, Terraform, Azure DevOps
• Other: Azure OpenAI Studio, Power Platform, Power BI

Key Responsibilities

• Write scripts and configuration files (e.g., Docker, Terraform, Ansible) to support platform operations
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform issues
• Support monitoring and provide feedback to project teams
• Advise developers on system usage and CI/CD configuration
• Follow engineering standards to ensure high-quality service delivery

Person specification

UK residency and security requirements - You need to have lived in the UK for the past 5 years.

Essential criteria

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for DevOps, with the following skills or some experience in:

• Designing, coding, testing, maintaining, and documenting simple scripts to automate build and deployment activities.
• Assisting with design and implementation of cloud components using AWS or Azure.
• Assisting with implementation of automated testing, scanning and/or code analysis tooling.
• Using application monitoring tooling to monitor and alert on the performance and availability of applications.
• Implementing and maintaining simple CI/CD pipeline steps.
• Assisting with cloud resource data management, such as naming, tagging, metadata, backups, and documentation.

Benefits:

• A highly competitive pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• 25 days annual leave on appointment rising 1 day per year up to 30 days, plus 8 days public holidays and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.
• Flexible working options to enable you to achieve the work life balance that is right for you including; Full time, part-time, flexi time, compressed hours and job sharing.
• A hybrid working model of a minimum 60% of your contracted hours in the workplace and 40% remote.
• Training and development opportunities tailored to your role, including access to technical and professional accreditations.
• Access to funded qualifications (subject to approval)
• A capability allowance reviewed annually.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• Enhanced parental leave schemes.
• Annual performance-based bonus and recognition awards.

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