Senior DevOps Engineer - MoJ - G7

We’re recruiting for a Senior DevOps Engineer here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Digital Infrastructure and Security Operations (DISO), team within Technology Services team. 

This role aligns against Senior Devops Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework. 

DISO is part of Technology Services, a modern and diverse workplace that promotes a healthy work-life balance and flexible working options. 

The DISO service areas are:

• WAN – ownership of our Wide Area Network and Gateway services both internally & externally provided.
• LAN – ownership of our wired & WiFi Local Area Network services both internally & externally provided, and our Physical Infrastructure field services.
• Voice – ownership of our digital, analogue and IPT Voice & Unified Comms services.
• Video – ownership of our Video conferencing services, procedural video services including pre-recorded evidence.
• Hybrid Cloud – ownership of our Azure hosting offer, on-premise hosting, testing and monitoring and integration services 

DISO designs, builds and supports user-centred digital and technology services for the justice system: services that make a real difference to our staff and users. Millions of people every year interact with our services, and DISO plays an important role in improving access to justice and making communication and connectivity experiences simpler and more efficient for all users. 

We want to hear from people who want to make a difference by building excellent services that meet user needs and change their experience by creating a simpler, faster and better system for everyone. Our mission is to deliver a world-class justice system that works for everyone in society. 

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at MoJ, you will work with colleagues across Technology Services and build strong relationships with Service Owners, Information Security, Customer Service Operational Teams, Delivery Managers, Product Managers and other key stakeholders. You will share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community.  You will be comfortable working across multi-disciplinary teams and flexible enough to adjust, at short notice, to immediate demand.  

In this role you will work as part of the Network Operations Centre and assist the Lead Engineer in managing additional requests for tools or infrastructure that are deemed necessary as part of our wider strategy. You will also provide a dedicated 3LS function dealing with service requests, tickets and major incidents.  There is an occasional need for work to be done OOH’s and you will be compensated for any of these occasions. 

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Key Responsibilities:

Engineering Management 

• Ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures, identify capacity issues, stipulate the required changes, and instigate these. You know how to initiate remedial action.
• Design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.
• Analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes, and lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements. You can help to evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy and standards
• You use a modern standards approach and guide others to use it as well. 

Technical Skills 

• Collaborate with others to review specifications and use these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the proper standards and tools.
• Design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You know how to select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of right technology, efficient use of resources and the integration of multiple systems and technology.
• Prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so, offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used.   

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym. 

Person Specification

Essential 

• You can apply a modern standards approach competently and have provided technical support and assistance to junior staff and users.
• You have been involved in systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and the integration of multiple systems and technology. You can share evidence of automating the deployment of whole systems, or systems components, across multiple environments using code.
• Experience of AWS (Networking with Route 53, VPC, EC2, SES, Security Groups and deploying custom AMIs as well as managing RDS instances), Azure (managing enterprise applications and application proxies for secure remote access and integration) and Terraform (proficient in using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, managing AWS cloud infrastructure as IaC).
• Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows Server (managing and maintaining) Administration: Skilled in managing servers, ensuring security, performance, and reliability.
• GitHub and GitHub Actions: Experienced in code management using GitHub, and proficient in configuring automated workflows with GitHub Actions using YAML.
• SolarWinds: Understanding and managing infrastructure monitoring with SolarWinds, including deploying and maintaining pollers, web servers, application servers, and databases.
• Knowledge of Cisco Switches/Routers, DNAC (Cisco Catalyst Center), ISE, Palo Alto NGFW’s, VPN’s, SASE and Juniper Mist products. 

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for SC clearance. 

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Person specification

Please refer to attached Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £56,532, Ministry of Justice contributes £16,377 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance
• For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.
  
  Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Candidates must submit a CV and mandatory Personal Statement which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above. 

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience and the following Behaviours during the assessment process: 

• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service 

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above. 

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference. 

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application. 

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

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) (opens in a new window)
• 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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).