Senior DevOps Engineer - MoJ - G7

Location

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

About the job

Job summary

These positions are based Nationally

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location:  National

Closing Date:  25th July

Interviews:  w/c 7th August (TBC)

Grade:  Grade 7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary:

National: £56532 - £64048 (which may include an allowance of up to £6168)

London: £61201 - £69338 (which may include an allowance of up to £6199)

Working pattern:  Full-time, part-time, flexible working

Contract Type:  Permanent

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We’re recruiting for Senior DevOps Engineers here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Platform Teams.

This role aligns against the Senior DevOps Engineer role from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

The MoJ’s strategic hosting platforms are transforming the department’s ability to deliver digital services, by providing hosting services with ops tools and best practices embedded. The value the teams deliver is multiplied across hundreds of services that make the justice system better for users. We use modern best practices like DevOps, agile and GitOps. We work in the open and prefer modern open source tools. We have a Platform dedicated to hosting new applications using cloud native architectures, and platforms in AWS and Azure, designed to enable legacy applications to benefit from the same, modern approach to public cloud hosting, optimising costs and environmental impact. You can find some of our repos Cloud Platform, Modernisation Platform and Analytical Platform

About Us: At Justice Digital, we're dedicated to leveraging technology to drive impactful change across the justice system. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing access to justice and improving outcomes for users through innovative digital solutions.
Responsibilities: You’ll be working on our acclaimed open-source public services, with user needs at the heart of everything, helping us transform Government for the future. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll be helping define how we do what we do, and making sure that our systems are built to be changed rapidly.
Collaboration: You’ll collaborate closely with software developers, product managers, designers, delivery managers, technical architects and content specialists who share our vision of leveraging technology to transform government services.
Discover More: To get a glimpse into life at Justice Digital, explore our blog and read about our Digital and Technology Strategy 2025.

Our Tech Stack

Technologies: We use a diverse range of technologies, and we’re seeking individuals who specialise in one or more and are eager to learn new languages and frameworks. Our tech stack includes:

Cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure
Infrastructure as code: Terraform
Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes
CI/CD deployments: GitHub Actions
Application code: Go, Python, Ruby, Javascript

Learning and Support: Once part of our team, we'll support you in mastering our tech stack, regardless of your current experience. Explore our GitHub for insights into our technologies and the services we develop and maintain.

Our Community: Join over 150 experienced software and DevOps engineers who form our vibrant engineering community across the MoJ. You’ll have opportunities to mentor junior colleagues and participate in informal support networks with peers. We encourage active engagement in shaping our engineering culture and community.

Career Development: We take pride in our supportive and effective line management. Your skills are highly valued, and we’re committed to helping you expand them within the civil service. You'll have opportunities to move between teams or departments, explore new technologies, and take on increased responsibilities aligned with your career goals.

Explore Further: Dive deeper into our work and culture by visiting our Justice Digital Blog.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior DevOps engineer, you will:

Technical

Help build and run user-centred, open-source, secure web systems to serve a variety of citizen and government needs
Be responsible for automating the deployment of systems that follow standard patterns, or components of systems that are more complex
Manage infrastructure for multiple environments through code
Build tools to automate infrastructure management tasks

People

Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developers, and maintain DevOps culture.
Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
Help with hiring, taking part in recruitment of other web operations engineers and technical staff
Participate in the professional development of themselves and guide others
Participate in 2nd line support during office hours, and sometimes out of hours (for which you’ll be paid an allowance and further hourly payment when on-call)

If this feels like an exciting opportunity, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Person Specification

You will have:

A systematic approach to solving problems
Experience managing infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform
Experience of version control technologies such as Git
Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
Experience with a programming language such as Go, Python, Ruby or Javascript
Experience working and leading tasks in a mixed skillset team
Experience of working with container orchestration
Experience of continuous delivery methods and deployment processes
Engaging people: Building capability for all

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor. 

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk

The MoJ’s strategic hosting platforms are transforming the department’s ability to deliver digital services, by providing hosting services with ops tools and best practices embedded. The value the team delivers is multiplied across hundreds of services that make the justice system better for users. We use modern best practices like DevOps, agile and GitOps, we work in the open and prefer modern open source tools. We have a Platform dedicated to hosting new applications using cloud native architectures, and platforms, in AWS and Azure, designed to enable legacy applications to benefit from the same, modern approach, to public cloud hosting.

Person specification

Please refer to attached Job Description