Location: Birmingham, Chilton, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf or Colindale), Porton (Core HQ and Scientific Campus)
Job Summary
The UKHSA Development and Operations team leads the digital transformation of UKHSA to make it a more data‑driven, customer‑focused, digital organisation. We do this by delivering services which meet and maintain the Government Digital Service (GDS) Digital by Default Service Standard.
DevOps Engineers at UKHSA work collaboratively with developers and stakeholders such as Data Scientists and Public Health officials to deliver software that drives the agency’s mission. We employ modern best practices to deliver projects quickly, safely, and cost‑effectively.
This role attracts a Market Pay Supplement (MPS) of up to £5,000 per annum (pro rata) to 31st March 2027. A capability assessment will be required to determine the amount given.
Core Responsibilities
- Designing, implementing, and supporting automated continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines across a wide range of digital applications and services.
- Working collaboratively with developers, platform engineers, and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable cloud‑based solutions using DevOps and agile best practices.
- Developing infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform and Ansible, automating cloud platform deployments, and supporting containerised application delivery.
- Troubleshooting and resolving issues within deployment pipelines, performing root‑cause analysis, and working closely with development teams to improve application reliability and operational efficiency.
- Reviewing and advising on the migration of applications to cloud environments, supporting automation initiatives, and helping teams adopt modern DevOps methodologies aligned to GDS Digital Service Standards.
- Working within multidisciplinary scrum teams, collaborating with Delivery Managers, Product Owners, and technical colleagues to translate business requirements into technical solutions and user stories.
- Continuously developing technical knowledge, promoting DevOps best practices across teams, and contributing to delivering projects effectively within agreed timescales and budgets.
This list is not exhaustive.
Qualifications
Essential Criteria
- Educated to degree level in a relevant subject such as computer science with core development element or equivalent level qualification or experience of working at a similar level in a DevOps specialist area.
- Proficiency and experience with DevOps approaches to application testing and deployment.
- Experience of automated deployment of applications and services to AWS or Azure.
- Design, development and support of CI/CD pipelines in a microservice architecture.
- Experience of implementing a continuous integration platform (such as Gitlab CI, Github Actions or Jenkins) using repeatable deployment patterns.
- Knowledge and experience of appropriate standards, methods and tools to design systems using DevOps principles.
- Knowledge and experience of cloud automation technologies such as Terraform.
- Genuine passion and interest in DevOps and cloud automation technologies and version control software (Git).
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and workloads.
- Ability to identify opportunities to optimise application development, deployment and lifecycle processes and contribute to their implementation using DevOps and Agile approaches.
- Ability to define the continuous integration build, co‑ordinate build activities across systems and understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities.
- Ability to work with business and technology stakeholders to translate business problems into technical designs, specifying and designing systems using appropriate standards and tools.
- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships, both in terms of day‑to‑day working practices and in relation to management systems.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of containerisation or microservices technologies.
- Good understanding of RESTful Web Services.
- Good understanding of user needs and the difference between user needs and desires.
- Experience of Agile principles, practices and tools such as Jira.
Additional Information
We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promotes equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all staff and stakeholders, creating, nurturing, and sustaining an inclusive culture where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.
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