Location: National
Closing Date: 30th May
Interviews: w/c 9th June (TBC)
Grade: G7 (MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £61,201 - £69,338 (which may include an allowance of up to £1,899) National: £56,532 - £64,048 (which may include an allowance of up to £1,868)
Working Pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found on this map.
This role aligns against ‘DevOps engineer’ from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
We’re recruiting for a DevOps Engineer here at Justice Digital, to join one of our dynamic and collaborative teams.
About Us: At Justice Digital, we're dedicated to leveraging technology to drive impactful change across the justice system. As a DevOps Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing access to justice and improving outcomes for offenders through innovative digital solutions.
Responsibilities: You’ll be working on our acclaimed open-source public services, with user needs at the heart of everything, helping us transform Government for the future. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll be helping to implement what we do, and making sure that our systems are built to be changed rapidly.
Collaboration: You’ll collaborate closely with software developers, product managers, designers, delivery managers, technical architects and content specialists who share our vision of leveraging technology to transform government services.
Discover More: To get a glimpse into life at MoJ Justice Digital, explore our blog and read about our Digital and Technology Strategy 2025.
Technologies: We use a diverse range of technologies, and we’re seeking individuals who specialize in one or more and are eager to learn new languages and frameworks. Our tech stack includes:
Cloud infrastructure: AWS
Infrastructure as code: Terraform
Containerisation: Docker
CI/CD deployments: Github Actions
Application code: Go, Python, PHP, Javascript
Learning and Support: Once part of our team, we'll support you in mastering our tech stack, regardless of your current experience. Explore our GitHub for insights into our technologies and the services we develop and maintain.
Our Community: Join over 150 experienced software and devops engineers who form our vibrant engineering community across the MoJ. You’ll have opportunities to be mentored by senior colleagues and participate in informal support networks with peers. We encourage active engagement in shaping our engineering culture and community.
Career Development: We take pride in our supportive and effective line management. Your skills are highly valued, and we’re committed to helping you expand them within the civil service. You'll have opportunities to move between teams or departments, explore new technologies, and take on increased responsibilities aligned with your career goals.
Explore Further: Dive deeper into our work and culture by visiting our Developer Blog and Justice Digital Blog.
As a devops engineer, you will:
Help build and run user-centred, open-source, secure web systems to serve a variety of citizen and government needs
Be involved in automating the deployment of systems that follow standard patterns, or components of systems that are more complex
Use infrastructure as code to assist the team in managing multiple environments
Build tools to automate tasks
Contribute ideas to the wider team and help grow our DevOps community.
Contribute to a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developers, and maintain DevOps culture.
Be part of a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
Participate in the professional development of themselves and happy to try and assist others
Occasionally participate in 2nd line support during office hours, and sometimes out of hours (for which you’ll be paid an allowance and further hourly payment when on-call)
If this feels like an exciting opportunity, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
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.
Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Carers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT
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.
You will have:
A systematic approach to solving problems
Awareness of the use of containers and minimal operating systems
Experience of modern development and deployment techniques
Experience of infrastructure as code tooling such as Terraform
Experience working in a mixed skillset team
Experience of version control technologies such as Git
Experience of cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
Experience of data and application security
Experience with a programming language such as PHP, Go, Python, Javascript, etc
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS 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.
Candidates must submit a CV and an optional Statement of Suitability (up to 750 words) which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.
In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Digital, Data and Technology Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:
Delivering at Pace
Developing Self and Others
Making Effective Decisions
Your application will be reviewed against the Person Specification above by a diverse panel.
Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 90-minute panel interview held via video conference.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on recent experience related to the role of DevOps engineer will be conducted prior to the sift.
Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for, but demonstrated the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and potentially offer you the position without the need for a further application.
A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.
Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out the way 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