Principal DevOps Engineer

⏰ Application Deadline: Thursday 29th May at 23:55pm ⏰

👀 What will you be doing? 👀

The Principal DevOps is responsible for key elements of our platforms, CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines and overall automation approaches. Your role is to support the delivery, update or evolution of these systems as well as to provide expert technical advice. You will also be expected to set the technical direction for our future platforms, be this through hands on delivery or design.

You will frequently collaborate with and take part in planning with senior business stakeholders to ensure that security, stability and capacity are embedded in the development and deployment of services. You will identify and explore opportunities for technology service and business improvement.

🚀 Your skills for this role 🚀

As a Principal DevOps, you will have experience of many, if not all of below:

• Specifying and designing large, complex cloud platforms and solutions using AWS or Azure, and developing organisational standards for cloud application design.
• Specifying and setting standards for automated testing, scanning and code analysis in collaboration with testers, architects, service owners and developers.
• Specifying and ensuring good use of processes, procedures and tooling for application monitoring, maintenance, and incident response.
• Specifying and leading implementation of data management processes and standards for cloud resources such as naming, tagging, metadata, backups, data onboarding/migration, and documentation.
• Selecting appropriate tooling, and specifying, designing, refactoring, and documenting complex scripts, frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code definitions, to automate build and deployment activities.
• Specifying, guiding, and leading the adoption of CI/CD frameworks and tooling, and contributing to standards on their use.

🙌 Why join us? 🙌

• Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.

• Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.

• Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).

• Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).

• Inclusion and recognition: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.

Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers

Please note: This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you must typically have been resident in the UK for at least five years.

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