DevOps Engineer - AWS / Kubernetes / Docker / IaC at UK Home Office (Manchester, UK)

What you'll be doing

You’ll be using a number of our cloud platforms (AWS focus, using native tools as well as our ACP and EBSA platforms) to enable rapid delivery, whilst working to our standards (must be secure, robust, accessible).

You’ll be responsible for maintaining and supporting our platforms. Your role is proactive, checking relevant metrics and performing platform updates when necessary. This will ensure it is accessible to users and has capacity for production and deployment. Upon request, you’ll also advise developers on how to use the platform effectively, reviewing and advising on their CI/CD pipelines, this may also involve working to deliver components of new platforms.

Your main day to day will involve:

• writing scripts to deliver/work with our platforms, such as developing docker/terraform/ansible files for a variety of systems/frameworks


• providing technical support functions, solving more challenging platform use and configuration issues


• providing feedback to project teams on platform use; supporting routine monitoring activities


• advising developers on how they should use existing systems and configure CI/CD pipelines


• working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes


• working with developers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

About you

We’re more interested in people who understand the methodology and fundamentals rather than specific tools. You’ll be ideal for this role if you have a demonstrable passion for automation and collaboration, with skills or experience in:

• CI/CD tooling - ideally Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab etc

• cloud platforms - Ideally AWS

• container workloads and container orchestration frameworks (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)

• IaC - ideally Terraform but happy to consider CloudFormation

• configuration management Tools - Ansible, Puppet, Chef, CFEngine etc

• working in an agile way following DevOps principles

• networking and load balancing

• scripting (any of the following) - Bash, Perl, Python or Go

What we're offering

To sweeten the offer, we’re one of the largest consumers of cloud services in the UK, and we make use of many vendors and technologies. We understand that continuous learning is extremely important to you as an engineer. To support you we will give you the materials and time to grow yourself. Additionally, you’ll have the support of a rapidly growing engineering community!

You can also take a look at our recent blog post on DevOps within the Home Office -https://hodigital.blog.gov.uk/2020/09/15/what-are-we-doing-in-devops-at-the-home-office