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Senior DevOps Engineer
Registers of Scotland · Glasgow, SCT, United Kingdom
Glasgow, SCT, United Kingdom50,243-73,353 GBP/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
£62,301–£73,353 + Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% + learning and development tailored to your role + flexible working options
Location
Glasgow, SCT, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
This job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals; nationals of the Republic of Ireland; nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK; nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS); nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS); individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020; Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Job summary
This role designs and supports the platform services, tooling, and engineering workflows that help product delivery teams release secure, reliable software. Responsibilities include improving CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation, resolving complex live-service issues, applying security and operational standards, and providing technical leadership, mentoring, and line management to support engineering capability across the organisation.
Benefits
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%Learning and development tailored to your roleAn environment with flexible working optionsA culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
Qualifications
- Secure, scalable cloud native and containerised platforms
- CI/CD, automation and infrastructure as code
- Observability, resilience and operational support
- Building reusable tooling, APIs and self-service capabilities
- Writing maintainable infrastructure code and automation scripts
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and improve DevOps tooling and engineering workflows
- Build, maintain and continuously improve deployment pipelines and release processes
- Provide technical leadership and hands on support to multidisciplinary delivery teams
- Coach, mentor and line manage junior colleagues
- Manage service components to ensure they meet business needs, performance targets and agreed service levels
- Design and build solutions with appropriate security controls
- Design, code, test and document software or infrastructure solutions of medium to high complexity
- Identify, investigate and resolve complex live service issues
Work schedule
Full-time
Industry
Digital
Security clearance
Basic (or equivalent) criminal record checkBaseline personnel security standard
Relocation
No