£44,241 per year, The base pay is £44,241. In addition to this the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £14,552. Candidates based in Yeading will receive the London Weighting allowance of £4,000.
Contract Type:
Permanent
Hours:
Full time
Disability Confident:
Yes
Closing Date:
30/05/2026
About this job
Join DVSA’s mission to make roads safer and more efficient by shaping the future of digital public services. As a Senior Dev Ops Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in designing, building, and evolving high-impact digital platforms and services that serve millions across the UK. We’re looking for experienced Senior DevOps Engineers to join DVSA’s Cloud Platform team, working with teams to automate, operate, design and build cloud services.
You will be responsible for the development and delivery of well‑designed and executed infrastructure, software and data management solutions, using Agile methodologies. You will work from requirements, high and low‑level design without the need for direct supervision and will coach and mentor junior engineers and developers within the Cloud Infrastructure domain.
You will be committed to quality and will promote quality infrastructure engineering techniques within the team, including pipeline, code and design reviews, reusability of code, refactoring, and use of internal and industry standards.
Responsibilities
* Deploy services using Infrastructure as Code (including Terraform) and an automation‑first approach.
* Design, standardise and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD & Dynamics pipelines, including testing, security scanning, compliance checks and reusable templates.
* Support release and application life‑cycle management processes by deploying artifacts and solutions across multiple environments.
* Apply cloud security best practices, support audits and ensure services meet compliance requirements.
* Optimize platform performance, reliability, cost and operational efficiency through proactive monitoring and analysis.
* Provide technical guidance, troubleshoot complex engineering issues and share best practice across teams.
* Provide hands‑on support and mentorship across teams, helping to resolve complex technical challenges.
* Develop, enhance and maintain solutions that put the user and user experience first.
* Foster continuous improvement of services through identification and implementation of strategic end‑to‑end system improvements.
* Demonstrate leadership by providing influence, direction, and guidance to engineers and developers to support the delivery of objectives.
Benefits
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including: Employer pension contribution of
28.97% of your salary. 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days), plus 8 bank holidays. A privilege day for the King’s birthday. Flexible working options where we encourage a great work‑life balance.
We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.
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