JOB SUMMARY

Are you ready to make a real impact in public service through technology? The Planning Inspectorate is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic Digital and Data Services team as we rise to meet increasing demands from colleagues, government, and the public.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in a multidisciplinary team, helping to shape and support the development and operation of our digital services. From casework management systems to public-facing websites and internal tools, your work will directly contribute to modernising and driving efficiency.
You’ll be working as part of a focussed team supporting focused on service delivery and continuous improvement. You’ll be a part of the wider Developer Community of Practice where you’ll have peer support and opportunities to share both knowledge and problems.
The Planning Inspectorate has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England. The work we do has a significant impact on people’s lives, the communities where they live and the economy.
We’re undergoing a major transformation, refreshing the systems that support our core services and redesigning how we deliver them across all channels. Modern technology is at the heart of this change, improving service delivery for both internal and external users.
It’s a great time to join the Planning Inspectorate as a DevOps Engineer. We’re investing heavily in our people, systems, and tools to ensure digital services are central to everything we do. Our commitment is reflected in our Civil Service People Survey results, which place us among the top performers.
To meet growing demand from colleagues, government, and customers, our Digital Services team is expanding. We’re increasing capacity and capability to deliver outstanding digital, data, and technology services. This is a high profile, business critical role, and we’re looking for a motivated, dynamic individual to join us during this exciting period.
We want our colleagues to be able to work more flexibly and more collaboratively, exploring new and innovative ways to improve the way we provide services.
For further information on the Planning Inspectorate, please visit our careers page at Civil Service Careers

JOB DESCRIPTION

You will be responsible for working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, focused on delivering high quality code and infrastructure in line with project goals and delivery cycles. As well as this you will be working with a team of Developers, DevOps engineers and Testers where team members are supported and developed to enable them to fulfil their potential and contribute fully to the success of the organisation.
As a DevOps Engineer, you will provide technical recommendations and assurance within the team to identify the best technology and solutions to support integration and deployment of applications.
You will also keep up to date with the latest technologies and trends, whilst delivering working software early and often, learning new languages and frameworks and picking the right solutions.
Our Tech Stack

We rely heavily on:

• Azure for our infrastructure
• Azure DevOps for our CI/CD pipelines
• Terraform for our Infrastructure as Code
• GitHub to host and manage our code
• Docker and Web Apps for Containers
• NodeJS for our back-end code
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript for our web interfaces
• UK Design System for our web interfaces
• Azure SQL for data storage

We’re happy to help you learn our tech stack once you are part of our team.
Check out GitHub for a closer look at the technology we use.

EXPERIENCE

• See Essential Criteria
  For guidance on how to structure your application please visit: About the application process , Civil Service Careers

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Provisioning Infrastructure
• Build and Release Pipelines

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

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