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This Associate DevOps with FinOps role is responsible for supporting our platforms. Your role is to resolve tickets relating to the maintenance of the platforms, often needing to make updates to resolve the issues reported. Collaborating with architects, engineers, and finance teams, they assist in maintaining service reliability and cost efficiency in our cloud infrastructure.
You will work under the guidance of your technical peers, developing your understanding of our platforms, pipelines and automation approaches.
What will you be doing?
As an Associate DevOps with FinOps, you will support cloud cost efficiency while contributing to operational resilience. Collaborating with SRE and Cloud Platform teams, you will assist in capacity planning, help optimize provisioning, and learn to embed financial accountability into reliability engineering workflows.
You will assist in using automation and observability tools to monitor cloud expenditure in real time, helping to identify inefficiencies and support cost-effective scaling strategies. Beyond direct cost optimization, you will contribute to financial awareness by learning and sharing FinOps best practices with engineers and supporting cost-conscious cloud infrastructure decisions.
Your skills for this role
You’ll have a demonstrable passion for DevOps with FinOps, with the following skills or some experience in:
* Assist in the design and implementation of cloud solutions in AWS or Azure, focusing on reliability, scalability, security and that are financially optimised (Lead essential criteria).
* Help configure and improve automated testing, scanning, and code analysis tools to enhance software reliability and help with embedding cost accountability.
* Assist in developing and maintaining monitoring, logging, and incident response tools to improve observability and issue resolution.
* Support writing and managing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scripts to ensure consistency in deployment and configuration management.
* Help maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient, secure, and reliable software delivery.
* Assist in enforcing data management practices for cloud resources, maintaining structured approaches to naming, tagging, backups, and documentation that also ensures financial efficiency.
* Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.
* Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.
* Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).
* Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).
* Inclusion and recognition: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.
Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers
Please note: This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you must typically have been resident in the UK for at least five years.
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Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Engineering, Information Technology, and Management
* Industries
Government Administration, IT System Data Services, and IT System Installation and Disposal
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