Junior DevOps Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

• Awareness of Agile and Dev Ops ways of working.
• Awareness of cloud hosting and platform services.
• Awareness of secure software delivery lifecycle principles.
• Awareness of CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
• Awareness of logging, monitoring and alerting.
• Awareness of version control and collaborative development.
• Awareness of Infrastructure as Code concepts.
• Awareness of incident, change and problem management.
• Awareness of UK government digital service principles.
• Awareness of data protection, security and information governance considerations.
• Relevant certifications may be useful, including Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified:
  Dev Ops Engineer Expert (AZ-400), ITIL Foundation, Agile Foundation or Scrum certification, Terraform Associate, and Git Hub Foundations or Git Hub Actions training.

• Support the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines.
• Assist with automating build, test, deployment and release processes.
• Help reduce manual tasks through scripting and reusable automation.
• Support consistent deployment practices across development, test and production environments.
• Assist with provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure.
• Support the use of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates.
• Help maintain secure and consistent environments across cloud platforms.
• Support configuration of compute, storage, networking and platform services.
• Help monitor digital services, infrastructure and applications.
• Support incident investigation, root cause analysis and service recovery.
• Assist with improving logging, alerting and observability.
• Contribute to service availability, performance and resilience improvements.
• Work with cyber security colleagues to apply secure‑by‑design principles.
• Support vulnerability management, patching and configuration compliance.
• Follow government security, data protection and information assurance requirements.
• Assist with access management, secrets management and environment controls.
• Work as part of an agile multidisciplinary team.
• Participate in stand‑ups, sprint planning, retrospectives and service reviews.
• Collaborate with developers, testers, architects, product owners and service teams.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery practices and technical standards.
• Maintain clear technical documentation, runbooks and support guides.
• Record configuration changes, known issues and operational procedures.
• Share learning with colleagues and contribute to team knowledge bases.
• Support onboarding of new team members by documenting repeatable processes.
• Support the build and maintenance of deployment pipelines.
• Assist in managing cloud environments and platform services.
• Write basic scripts to automate routine operational tasks.
• Monitor service health and respond to alerts.
• Support releases into test and production environments.
• Help maintain infrastructure configuration and environment documentation.
• Support incident, problem and change management processes.
• Work with security teams to resolve vulnerabilities and improve compliance.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of Dev Ops practices.
• Learn and apply government digital, data and technology standards.

• ARM
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Dev Ops
• Git Hub
• Support
• ITIL
• Security
• Terraform

We are recruiting a Junior Dev Ops Engineer for an initial 3‑month contract with possible extensions. The role is based in London with flexible working and is inside IR35 on an umbrella‑only basis. You will join our multidisciplinary Digital, Data and Technology team supporting secure, reliable and scalable digital services across government. We work closely with developers, testers, product managers, service owners, cyber security teams and delivery teams to deliver user‑centred public services that are secure, resilient and compliant with government standards.