EOI - Senior DevOps Engineer

Job summary

Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT)

We are transforming DCMS to meet the needs of a modern, delivery-focused department working on some of government’s highest-priority agendas to drive growth, enrich lives and level-up society.

Our modernisation plans include investing in systems that are fit for purpose, reduce manual work and improve how colleagues across DCMS use technology, data and digital services. This includes developing a strong central digital capability for the department.

We also want to improve how we solve policy challenges by using user-centred design and working in multidisciplinary teams. This is an exciting time to join, as the team is shaping how digital, data and technology support delivery across DCMS.

Our mission is to digitally enable how DCMS delivers its priority outcomes and respond to the changing needs of the sectors and partners we work with. If you want to help shape that journey, this is a great time to join us.

Job description

This is a short-term role for a maximum of 1 year, which is available on both level transfer and temporary promotion.

This role is aligned to Senior DevOps Engineer on the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework.

Role responsibilities:

• Transform complex technical requirements into an effective and automated DevOps toolchain to enable seamless product delivery.
• Provide strategic technical support to delivery teams, applying deep technical knowledge to solve complex infrastructure and operational problems.
• Design and implement deployment strategies for digital products that are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.
• Lead the automation of systems and the maintenance of development standards across the organization.
• Act as a technical subject matter expert within the team, reporting to the Lead Application Operations Engineer.

Person specification

The ideal candidate would have the following skills:

Essential requirements:

• Service support (Expert level): Proven experience diagnosing and resolving complex live service faults affecting DevOps tooling, environments and deployments, and advising teams on effective support approaches.
• Information security (Practitioner level): Experience designing DevOps solutions and services with appropriate security controls embedded to reduce security risk.
• Modern development standards (Practitioner level): Experience applying modern engineering standards and practices in DevOps work and supporting colleagues to adopt them
• Systems integration (Practitioner level): Experience defining integration builds and coordinating build activity so that tooling, environments and deployment processes work together, including supporting integration testing.
• Availability and capacity management (Working level): Experience managing service components and environments so they remain available and meet agreed performance measures, with minimal disruption to delivery.

Desirable skills:

• Experience working within an agile environment to deliver impactful, meaningful projects.
• Knowledge of enterprise platform environments used within the department (for example Microsoft enterprise services, including Azure where relevant) to support secure cloud-native delivery.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,065, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £12,475 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

DCMS values its staff and offers a wide range of benefits to everyone who works here. We’re committed to developing talent, and supporting colleagues to have great careers in our department. To support with that, some of the benefits we offer include:

• Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working - DCMS staff work on a flexible basis with time spent in offices, and time spent working from home

• 26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years’ service

• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

• Access to the Edenred employee benefits system which offers discounts to popular retailers and access to various useful resources such as financial and savings advice

• 3 days of paid volunteering leave

• Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity and adoption leave

• Staff reward and recognition bonuses that operate throughout the year

• Occupational sick pay

• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme which offers staff 24/7 confidential support and resources such as counselling, debt guidance and management advice

• Active and engaged staff networks to join including the LGBT+, Ethnic Diversity, Mental Health and Wellbeing and Gender Equality Networks

• Exceptional learning and development opportunities that you can explore alongside your day to day work

• Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme and much more!

Terms and conditions at SCS grades will vary. Those applying for SCS roles should refer to the candidate information pack for more information on terms and conditions.

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

Please discuss this opportunity with your line manager for approval before applying, if successful, you’d be required to start as soon as possible.

Please note: OGD candidates will require prior permission from their line managers to be released on loan should they be successful in securing this role.

To express your interest in this role, please send a statement of suitability of no more than 750 words describing your suitability for the role, along with your CV setting out your career history with key responsibilities and achievements by 17:00 pm on 13th November 2026 to [email removed].

Your statement of suitability should focus on how you meet the criteria set out above and will also be assessed using the same criteria.

Candidates who are successful at sift may be invited to an interview. The vacancy holder will confirm what to prepare for the interview but will be interested in the candidate's skills, experience and may ask for evidence of Civil Service behaviours.

For further information on this vacancy, please contact [email removed].

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