Senior Platform Developer
Put your career on the map
Total Remuneration: £57,879 to £68,146
Pay Supplement:The base salary for this role is £46,677-£54,957.This job qualifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annual Pay supplement of 24% which is included in the total remuneration above.
Pension: 28.97% of base salary (RoS contribution)
Annual Leave: 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Duration: Permanent
Working Pattern: 35 hours per week. We are a flexible employer and will consider a variety of working patterns.
Location: We offer a flexible hybrid work environment, allowing for remote work within the UK and occasional onsite collaboration at our Meadowbank House office in Edinburgh or St. Vincent Plaza in Glasgow. While remote work provides the freedom to work from home, certain projects and team activities may require more frequent onsite presence to foster creativity and collaboration.
Grade: Senior Executive Officer
Closing date: 18 August at 11.59pm
Number of vacancies: 2
Registers of Scotland (RoS)
Join an award-winning organisation recognised for its technology and innovation. Registers of Scotland is a world-leading pioneer in land and property registration. Our full-stack teams design, architect, and build all our registration products in-house. We work to create digital solutions for the people of Scotland. You will get an opportunity to nurture your creativity and develop with us through access to the latest data, software engineering and product delivery techniques.
This job is for you if you want…
Work with purpose: working for the people of Scotland to set the bar for land and property registration worldwide.
Flexible and hybrid working: depending on the role and team requirements, work when and where it’s best for you and your stakeholders.
Benefits: enjoy pay progression, pension contributions of up to 28.97%, up to a year’s parental leave, and 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Investment in professional development: we invest in all our people so that they have the right skills to be productive and confident in their job.
Diversity and Inclusion: We are an ‘Investor in People’ and a ‘Disability Confident’ employer. We are inclusive, stronger together, and committed to putting our people first.
Positive work culture: RoS is an agile, digital organisation using leading-edge technology.Colleagues understand their role in achieving our strategy and have the autonomy to deliver.
To learn more about RoS and what we offer visit our careers pages or watch this short video.
Hear from our colleagues about their experience of working within our Digital, Data and Technology teams on our website.
Our Tech stack
Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK, Terraform, Ansible
CI/CD Tooling: GitLab CI, GitLab Runners, Jenkins, AWS (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeArtifact)
Secrets Management: AWS Secrets manager, secrets server
Cloud & Containers: IAM, Lambda, EC2, ASGs/Launch Templates, AWS WAF, CloudFront, API GW, AWS Organizations, S3, ECS, EKS, Route 53, ELBs, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker
Languages: TypeScript, Python
Security & Scanning: AWS Guardrails, Checkov, Prisma Cloud, OSV Scanner, SonarQube, Renovate
Observability & Logging: CloudWatch, OpenSearch
Operating System Management: RedHat Satellite, AMI lifecycle management, Ubuntu Landscape
Testing Tools: Pytest, Jest, Cypress
APIs/Microservices: RESTful APIs, API Gateway, containerised services
Version Control: GitLab
The Role
Join our innovative tech team as a Senior Platform Developer and help shape the future of RoS! We’re looking for a passionate and experienced developer to support platform capability that enables agile software delivery. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a talented, collaborative team where you will work on cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies and methodologies. With clear pathways for career progression and opportunities to take on leadership roles. Please note internally, this role is referred to as Senior DevOps Engineer.
On a typical day you will…
* Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-quality software and platform systems
* Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines, observability, security automation, automated testing, and engineering standards
* Lead feature development from concept to production with focus on quality and performance
* Troubleshoot issues, ensuring resilience, reliability, and minimal user disruption
* Contribute to architectural and design decisions, and participate in strategic platform planning
* Apply product thinking to platform features with user feedback and adoption metrics
* Lead safe release practices including use of feature flags and progressive delivery
* Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies and DevOps tooling
* Support DR planning and ensure platform services meet RTO/RPO requirements
* Ensure systems are configured, all infrastructure components are accurately tracked, and services are smoothly transitioned into production
* Maintain developer onboarding resources and platform documentation for self-service
* Promote accessibility and inclusive design in platform interfaces
* Contribute to engineering communities of practice and departmental shared initiatives
* Mentor junior developers and promote knowledge sharing through pairing, mobbing, and code reviews
Key Responsibilities
Essential Criteria – Skills and Attributes for Success
Experience/Technical:
We will assess you against the following Experience and Technical skills during the application and assessment process:
* Extensive experience of experience in software or platform engineering roles
* Experience running secure, scalable cloud-native or containerised platforms
* Solid understanding of DevOps practices, agile delivery, and infrastructure automation
* Track record of delivering platform improvements that increase speed, reduce risk, and support scaling
* Led infrastructure or platform projects with clear, measurable outcomes
* Built reusable services and tools to support delivery teams
* Developed self-service capabilities for developers using APIs and automation
* Comfortable working in agile, cross-functional teams
* Works well with others and communicates clearly when solving problems
* Regularly contributes to code reviews and technical discussions
* Helps others build skills through mentoring and knowledge sharing
* Able to adapt to changing tools, technologies, and environments
* Writes clean, maintainable infrastructure code and automation script
Behaviours
At assessment, you will be scored against all the Behaviours outlined below:
* Leadership
* Working Together
* Delivering at Pace
Stage one - Application Process
To apply, click on 'Apply now' and complete the online application form.
You will need to submit:
* A CV outlining your career history and how you meet the technical/experience criteria (max 4 pages)
* Provide answers to the technical/experience questions
* After the deadline for applications, all applicants will be sent a short on-line test via the platform Hackerrank, which will assess your technical proficiency. You will have 72 hours in which to complete this.
Please note:
* If we receive a high volume of applications, we may complete an initial sift on the experience/ technical criteria and results of the technical proficiency test
* We reserve the right to invite candidates to participate in a telephone interview prior to being further assessed.
* Applications that are not accompanied by CVs or responses exceeding 500 words per experience question will not be considered.
* Applicants who do not complete the online assessment will not be considered.
* We would strongly recommend that your statement is written in theSTAR format(Situation, Task, Action & Result) and preparing your answers using software such as MS Word, and then uploading the file.
* We strongly advise you review our policy on responsible use of AI in the application process. RoS may check answers with an AI detection tool and will contact you for a pre-screening call to verify your responses.
* Applications and appointments are subject to a strict merit-based assessment process, in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles.
Stage two – assessment
If successful at application stage, you will be invited to an in-person interview which will include the following:
* An interview consisting of Behaviour, Technical and Experience questions.
* Further technical assessment
Information on Success Profiles
For further information on success profiles, visit ourSuccess Profiles
Recruitment timeline
Closing date: 18 August at 11.59pm
Online test sent: 19 August
Online test deadline: 21 August at 11.59pm
Application sift: w/c 25 August
Invites to assessment: 29 August
Interviews: w/c 4 September –with assessments most likely taking pace on the 4/5/8 September
(dates are subject to change)
Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if you progress to interview stage.
Reserve List
In the event that further posts are required, a reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for up to 12 months.
Nationality and immigration status
In general, only nationals from the following countries (and associations of countries) are eligible for employment in the Civil Service: the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the Commonwealth. EU nationals (with settled or pre-settled status), certain EEA nationals, Swiss and Turkish nationals are also eligible for employment. Detailed provisions on determining eligibility on the grounds of nationality and, where relevant, immigration status can be reviewed here.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a Basic Disclosure Scotland check.
Individuals working with government assets must completebaseline personnel security standardchecks.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
As a proud member of the Disability Confident Scheme, we welcome applications from disabled candidates. RoS is a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of selection process is used. To learn more about diversity at RoS please see our EDI strategy.
As part of the application process, we would like to invite you to please complete our diversity monitoring form. This information is not shared with recruitment panels.
If you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please let us know via resourcing@ros.gov.uk. Please see this page for more information on adjustments.
DDaT supplement
This post is part of the Digital, Data and Technology profession (DDAT) and attracts a pay supplement. This is a tool which RoS uses to benchmark our salaries against current market rates. A review of the benchmark is undertaken every two years, this means that the supplement may go up or down depending on market activity. Advance notice will be given of any changes.
Further information
For further information relating to RoS, including:
Additional details on pay & benefits
The Civil Service Code
Complaints process
Use of AI in the application/recruitment process,
Please view our additional information page online.
If you have any questions, please contact resourcing@ros.gov.uk
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