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Lead DevOps Engineer
UK Government - Department for Science, Innovation & Technology · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United Kingdom61,620-68,570 GBP/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
61,620-68,570 GBP/yearly
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
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Job summary
The DevOps Lead plays a central role in enabling secure, scalable, and high-quality digital services within BDUK. The role provides both hands-on engineering expertise and technical leadership, ensuring that modern DevOps practices, automation, cloud infrastructure, and operational reliability are consistently applied across teams to provide quality digital services within BDUK. You will lead the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, observability tooling, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks, with a strong emphasis on GitHub Actions and Terraform. You will help shape engineering behaviours, contribute to capability uplift and influence organisational DevOps strategy.
Benefits
Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%Flexible working benefitsEmployee well-being supportMinimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maExtensive range of learning & professional development opportunitiesAccess to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts
Qualifications
- Strong programming experience in Python, Linux, or Terraform.
- Strong experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience in addressing cloud and security vulnerabilities.
- Experience in cloud cost optimization (FinOps).
- Demonstrative experience in improving engineering standards and maturing DevOps ways of working.
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent discipline, or substantial professional experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or platform engineering.
- Experience in SecOps.
- Experience managing data or platform engineers.
Responsibilities
- Lead BDUK's DevOps community, defining its broader strategy and integrating it into other key BDUK strategies.
- Lead the long-term DevOps and cloud engineering strategy for BDUK, ensuring alignment with organizational digital data and technology goals.
- Define and own the DevOps maturity roadmap for the organization, supporting strategic planning and transformation initiatives.
- Lead the design, optimization, and governance of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, enabling secure and automated software delivery.
- Define, implement, and mature DevOps practices across engineering teams to drive automation, observability, continuous improvement, and operational reliability.
- Ensure cloud infrastructure and delivery pipelines meet DSIT security, compliance, performance, and resilience standards.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across cloud engineering, including IaC, deployment automation, monitoring, and service reliability.
- Support capability uplift by mentoring engineers, producing reusable patterns, and contributing to DevOps communities of practice.
- Drive the adoption of modern tooling, particularly Terraform, GitHub Actions, containerization, observability tooling, and DevSecOps approaches.
- Line manage junior DevOps roles, including defining objectives and managing development and performance.
Skills
GitHubGitHub ActionsLinuxPythonTerraform
Degrees
Degree in Computer ScienceDegree in Engineering
Work schedule
Flexible workingFull-timeJob sharePart-time
Contract length
2 years
Security clearance
Security checkBaseline personnel security standard
Relocation
No