DevOps Engineer

Salary

£42,500 - £45,700

Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS

It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue on a major transformation programme. HMLR's ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data.

We are looking for a Dev Ops Engineer to join our Transformation & Technology team to help us to achieve this.

The Dev Ops function is responsible for working with our IT software development teams to support the delivery of the platform and infrastructure for our new micro‑service applications as part of the digital transformation of our internal and external services.

Engineers are responsible for configuration, administration and support of the infrastructure using a Dev Ops methodology across multiple cloud infrastructures, ensuring they are secure, performant, supportable whilst following an agile approach to incremental delivery.

As a Dev Ops Engineer for HM Land Registry, you will provide technical engineering capability for the Web Operations team, responsible for supporting production systems and working with Agile development teams to deliver new services in a highly available and supportable configuration using Dev Ops processes and tooling. You will engage with other Dev Ops Engineers and Senior Dev Ops Engineers, as well as coach and support Junior Dev Ops Engineers.

The role holder will take forward technical consolidation and/or improvement activities providing guidance and leadership to technicians within the IT Operations Practice and wider, whilst also working across DDaT to support and deliver solutions in line with the Technology and Business Strategies.

A minimum of 32 hours per week is essential for these roles. Please note that the roles may require travel, requiring an overnight stay. This role does require occasional planned out of hours working, in order to deal with IT changes and maintenance and may include an participation in an on‑call rota.

HMLR expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office.

For more information about the role, please see the attached candidate pack.

• Experience of supporting Operating Systems, containers and containerised workloads e.g. orchestration services such as Open Shift and Kubernetes.
• Experience with at least one programming language such as Ruby, Java, Python, JavaScript or Go.
• Knowledge and experience of Dev Ops working practices of Continuous Integration.
• The use of version control (Git and Git Lab CI) configuration‑as‑code across cloud and on‑premise environments using Terraform and version control systems.
• Experience working in an agile environment building, deploying, supporting, and operating cloud applications.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

To apply you will need to attach a CV and complete the personal statement when prompted. Your personal statement should demonstrate how you meet the Essential Experience below, in no more than 1000 words:

• Holds a qualification in Information Technology or a related area (Degree Level or equivalent) and / or experience in an IT field.
• Experience of supporting Operating Systems, containers and containerised workloads e.g. docker containers.
• Experience with at least one programming language such as Ruby, Java, Python, Java script, Go.
• Understanding of Infrastructure‑as‑code across cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, on‑prem).

Once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.

If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a blended interview, held in person, in our Plymouth office. The interviews will take place week commencing 6th July 2026.

The blended interview will assess the Essential Experience and Behaviours as listed in the candidate pack.

Candidates may refer to notes within their interview but they should be used as a prompt only.

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