Senior DevOps EngineerThe Insolvency Service • Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Senior DevOps Engineer
The Insolvency Service
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
À propos
Digital Services is an in‑house team that has recently moved from a 3rd‑party DevOps function to bringing it in house, consolidating our technology stack and moving away from legacy services. This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape our digital services and the way we work for a sustainable, user‑centric future.
Responsibilities
Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery.
Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues.
Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available.
Maintain applications in production and non‑production environments.
Ensure that applications are deployed in a timely and secure manner.
Define standards for the successful operation of a DevOps function within the Insolvency Service.
Monitor and resolve issues in production environments.
Contribute to priority incident bridge calls and conduct root cause analysis.
Provide estimates to upcoming DevOps activities related to the delivery roadmap.
Provide updates and comments on in‑progress work.
Work with and support development and operations teams.
Escalate tickets to the Scrum Master/Delivery Manager that are unable to be completed and are now blocked.
Update and build deployment pipelines in line with the build and deployment model.
Raise changes to go through and attend CAB to represent those changes.
Contribute to the overall improvement of the application technology stack.
Ensure that documentation conforms to application documentation standards and is up to date.
Behaviours
Managing a Quality Service
Changing and Improving
Technical Skills
The candidate will be given a hypothetical technical scenario that will assess their technical knowledge and approach. This scenario will be presented during the interview; no presentation is required beforehand.
Application Process Expected timeline (subject to change):
Sift – week commencing 19th January 2026
Interview – week commencing 26th January 2026
Location – MS Teams (face‑to‑face or video; selection will determine the mode of interview)
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Eligibility and Diversity Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive, and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives.
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 with settled or pre‑settled status under the 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 who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Security and Sponsorship Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check and meet the security requirements before appointment. The level of security needed is a Security Check.
To sponsor a candidate under the Skilled Worker visa, a sponsorship licence is required. The Insolvency Service does not currently hold this licence and therefore cannot legally sponsor Skilled Worker visa applicants.
Salary and Benefits Salary of £48,429, with £14,029 contributed towards your membership of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Benefits include:
Flexible working arrangements and flexi‑time
25 days leave increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service, plus 8 public/bank holidays and an additional day of privilege leave
Competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
5 days paid leave for learning and development
5 days paid for volunteering
Cycle‑to‑work scheme
Access to an employee assistance programme and workplace wellness initiatives
For more information on the Civil Service pension scheme, visit https://www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk.
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Compétences linguistiques
- English
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