DevOps Engineer - HM Land Registry - HEO
£41,100 - £44,400 Pay supplement scheme - depending on your level of assessed capability
Full-time (Permanent)
Published on 10 September 2025
Deadline 21 September 2025
Location
Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS
About the job
Job summary
It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue on a major transformation programme. HMLR's ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data. We are looking for four DevOps Engineer's to join our Transformation & Technology team to help us to achieve this.
The DevOps function is responsible for working with our IT software development teams to support the delivery of the platform and infrastructure for our new micro service applications as part of the digital transformation of our internal and external services.
Engineers are responsible for configuration, administration and support of the infrastructure using a DevOps methodology across multiple cloud infrastructures, ensuring they are secure, performant, supportable whilst following an agile approach to incremental delivery.
As a DevOps Engineer for HM Land Registry, you will provide technical engineering capability for the Web Operations team, responsible for supporting production systems and working with Agile development teams to deliver new services in a highly available and supportable configuration using DevOps processes and tooling. You will engage with other DevOps Engineers and Senior DevOps Engineers, as well as coach and support Junior DevOps Engineers. The role holder will take forward technical consolidation and/or improvement activities providing guidance and leadership to technicians within the IT Operations Practice and wider, whilst also working across DDaT to support and deliver solutions in line with the Technology and Business Strategies.
A minimum of 32 hours per week is essential for these roles. Please note that the roles may require travel, requiring an overnight stay. This role does require occasional planned out of hours working, in order to deal with IT changes and maintenance and may include an participation in an on-call rota.
HMLR expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office.
For more information about the role, please see the attached candidate pack.
Person specification
To meet the requirements of this role, you will hold a qualification in Information Technology or a related area (Degree Level or equivalent) and / or experience in an IT field.
You will have experience of supporting Linux Operating Systems, containers and containerised workloads e.g. orchestration services such as OpenShift and Kubernetes. You will be experienced with at least one programming language such as Ruby, Java, Python, Javascript or Go.
In addition, you will have knowledge and experience of DevOps working practices of Continuous Integration.
The use of version control (Git and GitLab CI) configuration-as-code across cloud and on-premise environments using Terraform and version control systems. You will be used to working in an agile environment building, deploying, supporting, and operating cloud applications (in particular AWS).
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
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