Senior DevOps Oracle - HO - G7

Location

Croydon CR0 2WF, Manchester M5 3LZ, Sheffield S3 8NU

About the job

Job summary

We are looking for people who are passionate about Engineering to join our community led team in Shared Applications Service (SAS). You will work in agile multidisciplinary teams with over 200 engineers in a modern cloud environment using the latest technologies. Our purpose as a team is to bring technical understanding in-house for over 600 Home Office applications. 

You could be creating and maintaining some of the most critical public services in the United Kingdom and transforming how we use data and technology to improve these. We are responsible for designing, building and supporting solutions to help people prove their identity or apply for visas. You could also be working on critical IT systems that support policing and counter terrorism, which helps protect UK borders.

Job description

The Senior DevOps Engineer ensures service reliability and performance by maintaining, designing, and building key components in line with standards, ensuring security and effective monitoring. Collaborating with architects and teams, they clarify design constraints, workforce needs, and cost implications during discovery phases.

They share common responsibilities in automation, reliability, and infrastructure management with other DevOps colleagues.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.

When required, they work long-term with teams to optimise workflows, improve efficiency, and ensure seamless operations across the organisation by leveraging cloud infrastructure, automating platform services, and maintaining scalable environments.

We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:

Database and Infrastructure: Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management), Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Grid Infrastructure, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)

Cloud: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), OCI Compute, OCI Virtual Cloud Network (VCN), OCI DB Systems, OCI Object Storage, OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM)

DevOps: Terraform, Ansible, Shell scripting (Bash), Python, OCI Command Line Interface (CLI), Jenkins, GitLab CI, Git (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), Sonar Qube.

Monitoring: Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Grafana, OCI Monitoring.

What you will do

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

Assisting teams in mapping their workloads to cloud platforms, ensuring secure, scalable, and efficient deployments.
Developing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, including hardened base containers and automated provisioning.
Identifying and addressing cloud architecture inefficiencies, advising teams on best practices and mitigating delivery risks.
Supporting engineers in service topology discovery, helping define quality assurance (QA), deployment, and infrastructure pipelines.
Driving the adoption of cloud-native tools and automation, enhancing integration, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Developing and refining cloud support processes, improving reliability, observability, and user experience.

Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.

Person specification

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for cloud platform engineering, with the following skills or strong experience in:

Leading the design, implementation, and review of complex cloud solutions using Oracle, ensuring alignment with best practices for architecture and scalability.
Driving the implementation of automated testing, scanning, and code analysis tooling, and providing guidance on best practices to ensure continuous integration and code quality.
Identifying and enforcing the use of processes, procedures, and tooling for application monitoring, ongoing maintenance, and incident response to ensure high availability and performance.
Devising and leading the implementation of data management processes and standards for cloud resources, covering areas like naming, tagging, metadata management, backups, and documentation for compliance and efficiency.
Designing, coding, testing, maintaining, and documenting scripts and infrastructure-as-code definitions to automate build, deployment, and provisioning activities, enhancing operational workflows.
Specifying and leading the implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring alignment with best practices to facilitate automated and efficient deployment cycle.

SFIA capability framework

Skills for the Information Age (SFIA) is the technical framework that sets the standard capability and development of all engineering levels in the Home Office. This is a link to the capability framework:  All skills A–Z — English (sfia-online.org)

We use set SFIA technical skills to form our interview questions and we will assess you against these technical skills during the selection process.

SFIA levels of responsibility – Use the SFIA Levels of responsibility to understand what would be expected for each Technical Skill listed below.

SFIA Technical Skills

The essential technical skills listed above are reflective of the Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession Career Framework. Please see below for the relevant skills required for your role.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Leadership

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Software design (SWDN) - Level 4
Programming/software development (PROG) - Level 3
Testing (TEST) - Level 3
Systems integration and build (SINT) - Level 4
Data management (DATM) - Level 4
Application support (ASUP) - Level 4