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Lead DevOps Engineer (DevOps Specialist Lead)
Intellectual Property Office · Newport, WLS, United Kingdom
Newport, WLS, United Kingdom66,162-74,857 GBP/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
Civil Service Pension with a 28.97% employer contribution
Location
Newport, WLS, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. Candidates need an existing right to work in the UK at the time of application.
Job summary
Lead DevOps engineering across cross-functional teams and the software delivery lifecycle, enabling reliable delivery of digital services on cloud platforms. Design and assure technical solutions, guide and mentor engineers, manage a small team, and improve shared practices in line with security, governance, architecture, and technology roadmaps. The role uses Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, Microsoft Azure, OpenTofu or Terraform, AKS, scripting, and workloads including Azure ML.
Benefits
Civil Service Pension with a 28.97% employer contributionUnlimited Pluralsight accessAccess to Microsoft's ESI training suiteCareer progression support25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days8 public holidays1 privilege leave day
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles and experience in a DevOps or iterative development environment.
- Proven experience implementing CI/CD processes and tools, including pipeline design and administration.
- Experience embedding automated testing in CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience supporting services, troubleshooting, and resolving incidents.
- Experience identifying and tracking risks and issues.
- Strong communication skills and experience sharing knowledge and mentoring junior team members.
- Experience leading DevOps decision-making across the software delivery lifecycle.
- Experience selecting DevOps solutions based on user needs and business requirements.
- Substantial experience administering and configuring Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or equivalent CI/CD orchestration tools.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as OpenTofu or Terraform.
- Experience deploying workloads to and using cloud platform resources, preferably Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with containerisation technologies and platforms, such as Docker, AKS, or Azure container services.
- Experience managing and supporting distributed source code repositories, including Git.
- Substantial development or scripting experience with Python, Bash, PowerShell, or equivalent.
Responsibilities
- Lead DevOps expertise and decision-making across the software delivery lifecycle.
- Design and assure DevOps solutions based on business and user needs.
- Provide technical leadership, guidance, and support to delivery teams and the DevOps community.
- Share expertise and promote reusable patterns, tools, and components.
- Assess the impact of technical choices on business processes.
- Ensure solutions follow agreed processes and security and governance practices.
- Coach and mentor DevOps engineers and manage a team of three to four engineers.
- Develop, implement, and improve DevOps practices across engineering.
- Align DevOps approaches with target architectures and technology roadmaps.
- Contribute to technology strategy, project planning, and product roadmaps.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and improve processes and ways of working.
- Research emerging DevOps principles and practices.
Skills
Node.jsC#GitHub ActionsDockerTerraformAzurePythonPowerShellAKSAzure DevOpsBash.NETGitGitHubMakeOpenTofu
Work schedule
Full-timeNo core hoursAt least 20% onsite attendanceOffice attendance every Wednesday and the last Tuesday of each month
Industry
Digital servicesIntellectual property
Security clearance
Disclosure and barring security checkSecurity Check clearanceHigher Security Clearance, held or obtained if requiredBaseline Personnel Security StandardAt least five years of continuous UK residence required for vetting
Relocation
No