Salary: £50,182 (Croydon) plus skills allowance of up to £11,338 pending assessment.
Location: Croydon only on a hybrid basis
Advert Close: 11:55 pm Monday 2nd March 2026
Please note that this role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally need 5 years' UK residency in the past 5 years.
What you'll bring to the role
The DevOps is 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 will also advise developers on how to use the platform effectively, reviewing and advising on their CI/CD pipelines. You may also work to delivery components of new platforms.
Tools and Technologies we use:
We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:
* Backend: Java,, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power platform, Logic Apps
* Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular
* Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra
* DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Azure Service Fabric, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Azure DevOps.
Essential skills
As a DevOps, you will have experience of:
* Designing, coding, testing, maintaining and documenting scripts and infrastructure-as-code definitions to automate build and deployment activities.
(Programming/software development - PROG) (Lead Essential Criteria)
* Designing and implementing cloud solutions using AWS or Azure according to best practices.
(Software design - SWDN)
* Implementing automated testing, scanning and code analysis tooling, according to best practices.
(Testing - TEST)
* Implementing and using application monitoring tooling and responding to incidents following agreed procedures.
(Application support - ASUP)
* Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines following best practices.
(Systems integration and build - SINT)
* Implementing data management best practices for cloud resources, such as naming, tagging, metadata, backups, and documentation.
(Data management - DATM)
Skills for the Information Age (SFIA) is the technical framework that sets the standard capability and development of all levels in the Home Office. This is a link to the capability framework: All skills A - Z English (sfia-).
What's in it for you?
* A civil service pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%.
* In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
* The ability to potentially adopt flexible working options that suit your work/life balance, plus the opportunity in future to take a career break.
* 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
* Eight days public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
* 26 weeks maternity, adoption or shared parental leave at full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, after qualifying service.
* Maternity and adoption support leave (also known as paternity leave) of two weeks full pay, after qualifying service.
* Paid leave for fostering approval processes, support when a child is substantively placed with you plus a foster to adopt policy.
* Support for guardians and kinship carers.
* Corporate membership of 'Employers for Carers' providing additional information and advice for carers, plus a 'Carer's Passport' to discuss workplace needs and underpin supportive conversations.
* Time off to deal with emergencies and certain other unplanned special circumstances.
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