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Senior DevOps Engineer (Hiring Immediately)Metropolitan Police • Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Senior DevOps Engineer (Hiring Immediately)

Metropolitan Police
  • GB
    Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
  • GB
    Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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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.
Location: Birmingham
Overview of the role
Counter Terrorism Policing relies on a wide range of technologies, and in this vital role you’ll support the development of our cloud platform for the national systems that underpin our operations. 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.
Key responsibilities will include
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.
Ensuring the personal and team workload is effectively managed, prioritised and issues are escalated if necessary.
Ensuring adherence to required polices, standards, controls and best practice.
Creating, maintaining and reviewing technical documentation.
Proactively monitoring cloud environments to help prevent and resolve any issues.
Driving continuous improvement across cloud services.
Assisting with the mentoring of junior colleagues and the development of the team.
Knowledge, skills and experience
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. Additional knowledge and skills should include:
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.
The skills to use agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts, and approach prototyping as a team activity.
A broad understanding of service support and how to undertake integration testing activities.
The ability to select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively.
A readiness to collaborate with user researchers and offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
A strong understanding of Tier 1 cloud service providers such as AWS and Azure.
The ability to communicate issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience of supporting services through live operation.
Good experience of designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and supporting a modern digital service platform in production environments.
The skills to produce designs that are scalable, resilient, efficient and secure.
The ability to apply industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and application components.
How to apply
To begin your career at the Met, please click the apply button “. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV, and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and Personal Statement.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 24 June 2026.
Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. The application review for this vacancy will commence 2 weeks after the vacancy has closed.
Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. Interview dates will commence 2 weeks after the hiring managers review
  • Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

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