DevOps Engineer - Government Legal Department - SEO

Location

Bristol, Croydon, Leeds, London, Manchester

Job summary

From healthcare to artificial intelligence, energy to national security, we provide legal advice to government departments on nation-changing subjects.

At Government Legal Department we have a vital, single-minded purpose: to help the Government govern well within the rule of law. This is complemented by our exciting vision to be an outstanding legal organisation, committed to the highest standards of service and professionalism and a brilliant place to work where we can all thrive and fulfil our potential.

Our work touches almost every aspect of public life. We are the largest provider of legal services across government, working on high profile matters.

Our respected professionals are involved in everything from regulation and litigation to advice on drafting legislation. They provide expertise to the full range of government departments. We are at the heart of delivering the government’s priorities and our success depends on our people.

GLD is a non-ministerial government department headed by the Treasury Solicitor, our Permanent Secretary, and employs nearly 4000 people, including nearly 3000 legal professionals. We have offices nationwide, in Bristol, Leeds, inner and outer London and Manchester. Our lawyers can also be located within other departments and overseas.

GLD also depends on a range of cross-functional professionals to provide our corporate services. There are nearly 1000 colleagues playing an essential part in helping GLD to achieve its purpose and truly deliver much more than law.

This is an exciting time to join GLD, with cutting edge legal work on global issues and a transformation agenda which is ensuring the Department exemplifies the Modern Civil Service.

To find out more about what we do you can view our introductory film. On our website you can hear from team members, find out how to apply and learn about the benefits of working for GLD. You can also read more about the future vision for GLD in our GLD Strategy 2024 - 2027.

We are building an ever expanding and modern digital workplace that empowers our people, strengthens collaboration and enables the organisation to operate efficiently, securely and sustainably.

Through agile delivery and user-centered approaches, we design and deliver products and services in partnership with the people who use them, ensuring solutions meet real needs and deliver lasting value.

As part of the wider Government Digital and Data profession, we play a key role in transforming how government operates, enabling better outcomes for colleagues, stakeholders and the public we serve.

As a Dev Ops Engineer within GLD’s Digital, Data and Cyber Directorate, you’ll be at the heart of building and improving the technology that powers our digital services.

Working alongside developers, architects, cyber security specialists and delivery teams, you’ll design, automate and support secure, scalable and reliable cloud services. You’ll help streamline deployments, strengthen our cloud infrastructure and build resilience into everything we deliver.

From CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code to monitoring, incident management and security, you’ll have the opportunity to solve complex technical challenges, champion Dev Ops best practice and drive continuous improvement across our technology estate.

Build and automate our cloud services – design, develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Bicep, ARM templates and Terraform.

Manage secure Azure infrastructure –…