Development Operations (DevOps) Engineer - MoD - SEO
Location
Norcross - Tomlinson House, FY5 3WP, Abbey Wood North, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, South West, BS34 8QW, Kentigern House, Glasgow, G2 3EX.
About The Job
Are you a dedicated person who is passionate about making a difference? Would you like to work for the Ministry of Defence? Defence Business Services (DBS) is one of the largest shared service organisations in Europe that provides a wide range of corporate services to over 1.2 million end users, including serving and past military and families, as well as MoD civil servants and industry. DBS delivers large scale administration and smaller specialist services to enable the wider MOD to focus on its core aims, maintaining the UK’s Defence and Security.
Job Description
DBS DIT provides digital capability that supports corporate services across the Ministry of Defence, including Finance, Commercial, Payroll and Human Resources for Military Personnel, Civilian Personnel and Veterans. Our digital solutions comprise enterprise resource planning systems, performance management, analytics, automation, low code applications and public-facing services through Gov.uk. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be at the heart of managing and optimising our development processes. Your responsibilities will include overseeing tools and testing environments, managing central code control, maintaining development standards, and writing software that automates systems. You will design secure solutions and deliver complex projects using modern development standards.
Responsibilities3n
* Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery
* Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable, and highly available
* Provide deep technical knowledge, supporting delivery teams and solving complex problems
* Manage service components and optimise development processes to meet business needs and performance indicators
* Design secure solutions and services with controls engineered to mitigate security threats
* Use modern development standards to design, code, test, and document programmes or scripts of medium-to-high complexity
* Identify, locate, and fix complex service faults, advising others on methodologies and service support types
* Design systems with medium levels of risk and complexity, ensuring appropriate technology selection and efficient resource use
* Collaborate with user researchers to champion user research, prioritise and define approaches to understand user stories, offering recommendations on best tools and methods
* Deploy, manage, and scale applications on OpenShift and third‑party Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions; set up and manage continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
* Provide coaching and mentoring to junior colleagues
Person Specification
* Availability and Capacity Management – manage service components to meet business needs and KPIs (Skill Level: Working)
* Development process optimisation – identify optimisation opportunities and contribute to implementation (Skill Level: Working)
* Information Security – design solutions and services with security controls to mitigate threats (Skill Level: Practitioner)
* Modern Development Standards – apply standards and support others' application (Skill Level: Practitioner)
* Programming and Build – collaborate and design, code, test, document medium-to-high complexity scripts (Skill Level: Practitioner)
* Prototyping – actively solicit prototypes, test, establish patterns (Skill Level: Practitioner)
* Service Support – locate and fix complex faults, advise on service support types (Skill Level: Expert)
* Systems Design – design medium risk, impact, and complexity systems; select appropriate design standards (Skill Level: Practitioner)
* Systems Integration – coordinate integration build activities and support integration testing (Skill Level: Practitioner)
* User focus – collaborate with user researchers, represent users internally, prioritise and define user story approaches (Skill Level: Practitioner)
Desirable Experience
* Experience with OpenShift – deploy, manage, and scale applications on OpenShift, understand architecture, project concepts, and CLI
* Proficiency with Prometheus and Terraform – monitoring, alerting, and infrastructure as code for cloud, infrastructure, or service provisioning
* Containerization and Kubernetes Experience – Docker or other container technologies, Kubernetes orchestration design, deployment, management
* Web Development Skills – Node.js, TypeScript, React, and front-end development with HTML, CSS
* Experience with Platform as a Service (PaaS) – understanding of third‑party PaaS solutions such as AWS, Azure
* Experience in CI/CD – setting up and managing continuous integration and deployment pipelines; familiarity with tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, GitLab CI/CD
* Security Practices – secure software supply chain, manage secrets, implement access controls
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet
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