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DevOps Engineer
Government Property Agency · Birmingham, ENG, United Kingdom
Birmingham, ENG, United Kingdom43,936-48,268 GBP/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
Recruitment and Retention Allowance up to £5,000 for eligible candidates; £5,000 non-pensionable Gold Standard allowance for eligible staff; Civil Service Pension with 28.97% employer contribution
Location
Birmingham, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
The organisation cannot offer visa sponsorship.
Job summary
The DevOps Engineer supports a multidisciplinary PropTech team delivering user-centred digital services, ensuring services are deployed continuously and remain monitored, resilient, scalable, and highly available. The role includes automating deployments and tests with infrastructure as code, troubleshooting and supporting digital products, and developing deployment standards. Relevant technologies and domains include public cloud, Git and CI/CD, containerised applications, Kubernetes, web application security, and government property services.
Benefits
Civil Service Pension with 28.97% employer contributionLearning and development tailored to the roleFlexible working optionsInclusive and diverse working culture
Qualifications
- Experience setting up public cloud services using infrastructure as code.
- Experience troubleshooting web applications, systems, networks, and databases.
- Understanding of networking and web application security, including TCP, HTTP, DNS, and SSL.
- Experience with Git and CI/CD workflows, ideally using GitHub.
- Experience running containerised applications in an orchestrator, ideally Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of software development or scripting, ideally Bash, PowerShell, or Terraform.
- Knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems.
- Strong communication, organisation, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to collaborate, share knowledge, mentor others, and work effectively in a diverse multidisciplinary team.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement resilient, scalable, highly available services.
- Automate tasks, deployments, and tests using infrastructure as code.
- Provide technical support across digital products and services.
- Collaborate with developers to build sustainable digital products.
- Develop and maintain modern deployment standards and practices.
- Promote user-centred, agile delivery of high-quality digital services.
- Contribute to an inclusive DevOps community.
Skills
AzureAzure DevOpsBashDockerGitGitHubGitHub ActionsGrafanaKubernetesLinuxPowerShellPrometheusRubyTerraformAWS
Certifications
Technology-related certifications or accreditations, such as Kubernetes, Docker,
Work schedule
Full-time
Industry
GovernmentProperty technology
Security clearance
Security Check (SC)Baseline Personnel Security Standard
Relocation
No