Senior Devops Engineer

Join Ofwat’s IT Operations Team as a Senior Dev Ops Engineer

This is a Fixed Term Appointment running until 31st December 2027 with possibility to extend.

* Office

Location:

Birmingham (B5 4UA
) with hybrid working
* About Us

We are Ofwat, the Water Services Regulation Authority, a non-ministerial government department responsible for regulating the water sector in England and Wales.

The water sector is entering a new chapter. Following the Independent Water Commission’s Final Report and subsequent White Paper - 'New Vision for Water', the UK government has set out a bold new direction - one that brings together expertise from across the sector to deliver better outcomes for customers and the environment.

Ofwat is working in collaboration with the government and other regulators to help establish a new body for England, combining our strengths with those of the Drinking Water Inspectorate, the Environment Agency, and Natural England. We’re also continuing to engage with the Welsh Government to support future decisions for Wales.

While these changes take shape, our mission remains the same: to hold water companies to account, drive performance, and ensure the sector delivers real value for customers, communities, and the environment. If you’re passionate about making a difference, this is a unique moment to join us and help shape the future of water, and together we can continue to make a positive impact.

The Role

This role will help the team deliver changes safely and consistently by establishing the deployment pipelines, controls and working practices needed for a modern data platform.

Reporting to the Head of IT Operations, the Senior Dev Ops Engineer will lead the practical design, build and operation of Ofwat’s deployment capability for its data platforms. The role is focused on Azure Dev Ops and Microsoft Fabric, with responsibility for creating repeatable, secure and auditable routes for changes to move from development through test to production.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role. The postholder will configure repositories, branch policies, service connections, environments, approvals and automated pipelines; integrate Azure Dev Ops with Fabric and related Microsoft services; and introduce proportionate testing, release and rollback controls. They will diagnose deployment failures and improve the process as the platform and its products develop.

About You

Below are some of the key essential experience, skills & knowledge required for this post:

 1. Lead criterion 1:
Significant experience delivering Azure Dev Ops CI/CD solutions for complex cloud, data or analytics platforms, including source control, automated pipelines and release management.

 2. Lead Criterion 2:
Experience deploying and managing Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and Azure data services using Dev Ops practices, source control and release automation.

 3. Strong automation and infrastructure-as-code skills, with experience delivering scalable, maintainable and reusable solutions.

 4. Good understanding of secure delivery practices in Azure, including access controls, secrets management, governance and operational risk management.

 5. Experience implementing automated, governed and repeatable deployment processes across development, test and production environments.

 6. Experience supporting production services, including deployment monitoring, troubleshooting, release improvement and operational support.

 7. Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams, sharing knowledge and expertise to support capability building, knowledge transfer and the adoption of Dev Ops best practices.

Why You Should Join Us

* People Centric:
Our people are at the heart of Ofwat and everything we do - we ensure all voices are heard…