DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, Hybrid

Company: Metropolitan Police
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Location: Birmingham
Job Description:

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer – Technology CSC – Counter Terrorism Policing HQ Salary: The starting salary is £63,409, which includes allowances totalling £3,009. The salary is broken down as £60,400 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £65,886. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000. Joining a new team of dedicated engineers, this is a great opportunity to support project delivery and technical development to help us build and support a world-class cloud services platform.  Transforming technical requirements into effective technical solutions to enable product delivery, and ensuring deployment strategies are repeatable and scalable. Using your technical knowledge as you support delivery teams and end users. Testing and deploying product updates, resolving issues, and implementing integrations. Create and improve automations and monitoring, and acting as the technical product owner for some parts of our cloud infrastructure. Providing project oversight to ensure standards are met, and working with your colleagues to ensure software development follows established processes. Proactively monitoring cloud environments to help prevent and resolve any issues. You should possess a background in modern software engineering or platform infrastructure support, and have a proven track record of creating and maintaining infrastructure as code platforms, cloud environments or similar. The ability to manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets. The skills to ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures, identify capacity issues, stipulate and instigate required changes, and initiate remedial action. Good knowledge of process optimisation opportunities and the implementation of proposed solutions. An understanding of design solutions and services with security controls embedded, engineered with the mitigation of security threats as a core feature. A broad understanding of service support and how to undertake integration testing activities. A strong understanding of Tier 1 cloud service providers such as AWS and Azure. Good experience of designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and supporting a modern digital service platform in production environments. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form….

Posted: May 31st, 2026