Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Newport (Hybrid)

Salary: Up to £53k

28.9% Pension

**Must be eligible for SC clearance**

The Opportunity

Yolk Recruitment are excited to be working with an innovation-driven civil service organisation as they journey through an incredible digital transformation whilst prioritising forward thinking and excellent digital practices. Alongside this, they pride themselves on being a Stonewall Diversity Champion, which means they are part of Britain's leading best-practice employers' forum for sexual orientation and gender identity equality, diversity and inclusion.

We are now looking for a DevOps Engineer to work within the Platform Engineering group, during the IPO digital transformation journey. Working within an established team, this role provides an opportunity to turn innovative ideas into customer value using a range of technologies and delivery platforms.

Technical Responsibilities

• Support the full software development lifecycle using DevOps practices.
• Apply best practices across infrastructure and applications (availability, security, performance, scalability).
• Design, implement, and manage automated CI/CD pipelines, including production deployments.
• Lead integration and configuration of DevOps tools across source control, build, testing, security, and monitoring.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and auditing solutions.
• Ensure adherence to security and performance standards.
• Contribute to technical design, architecture, and delivery planning.
• Promote use of automation and infrastructure-as-code.

Core Skills

• Strong experience with DevOps principles and CI/CD pipeline design and management.
• Knowledge of automated testing within pipelines.
• Experience in troubleshooting, incident resolution, and service support.
• Ability to identify and manage risks and issues.

Technical Skills

• Scripting/development experience (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps preferred).
• Experience building/deploying applications (e.g. Python, .NET, Node).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform).
• Experience with containerisation (e.g. Docker, cloud container services).
• Familiarity with source control systems (e.g. Git).
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred).

Think this one's for you

If you think this Senior DevOps Engineer opportunity is for you then please apply online.

Yolk Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team works with organisations across the UK to fulfil their recruitment needs and to achieve their D&I objectives. We recruit temporary, contract and permanent hires for 1 off specialist needs or for volume campaigns. We support our applicants to navigate the public sector recruitment processes and secure their dream jobs.

Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. xbpsjku We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.