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

About Us

You could be designing and building solutions to help people prove their identity or apply for visas or working on the critical IT systems that support policing and counter terrorism and help protect UK borders.

We think that these are some of the most interesting and exciting projects in government right now, and we look forward to finding the right person to help us deliver them.

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

What you'll be doing

Working with the wider DevOps and SRE community, you'll enhance and improve patterns, frameworks and tooling that keeps services reliable and operating at scale. We have a number of DevOps toolchains. Primally we run docker, Kubernetes and Terraform.

We want you to administrate and support these toolchains and feed into the technical direction that these platforms should take. You’ll be proficient in the field of DevOps and be you’ll care about automation, security, fixing complex issues and consider a problem ticket a chance to deliver changes.

Your key responsibilities

• implementing optimisations and automations that reduce technical debt; reduce operational costs and risks; automate toil; and improve the quality and resilience of our service infrastructure


• spotting instances where teams are not using best practice; advising around delivery risk, e.g. code quality analysis tools support in


• developing delivery pipelines using GitLab and Jenkins for deployments into our path-to-live environments across multiple services.


• undertaking skilled platform build/support activities, such as developing hardened base containers, deploying platform services through a CI pipeline making use of infrastructure as code


• supporting engineers in service topology discovery; helping to define QA and deployment pipelines


• driving adoption of new tools so teams can improve their integration approaches

What we offer

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 an 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!

We work at scale, and we have the tech stack to support this, delivering services to millions of people across the United Kingdom. If you want to be part of this, whether already working at this level or looking to make your next career move, it’s time to share your CV and make a difference.

About you

You’ll have strong skills or experience:

• in development of code or scripts to provide automation and consistent deployment patterns in at least one major programming/scripting language


• with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform/Cloudformation, Vault and modern monitoring tooling systems


• engineering and maintaining DevOps toolchains to support secure and highly resilient services


• developing designs, code and testing of infrastructure as code and continuous improvement pipelines


• building and installing of new platform tooling solutions such as monitoring, secret management and service discovery solutions to industry best practices


• working in an agile software development environment, including iterative design, planning and improvement