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Junior DevOps Engineer
3 months initially - extensions
London - flexible
Inside IR35 - umbrella only
The Junior DevOps Engineer will work to the DevOps manager and supports the design, delivery, automation and operation of secure, reliable and scalable digital services across government. Working as part of a multidisciplinary Digital, Data and Technology team, the role helps improve deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, service reliability and operational processes.
The postholder will work with developers, testers, product managers, service owners, cyber security teams and delivery teams to help deliver user-centred public services that are secure, resilient and compliant with government standards.
DevOps and Automation
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.
Cloud and Infrastructure Support
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.
Monitoring, Reliability and Support
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.
Security and Compliance
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.
Collaboration and Agile Delivery
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.
Documentation and Knowledge Sharing
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.
Main Duties
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 DevOps practices.
Learn and apply government digital, data and technology standards.
Knowledge Required
Agile and DevOps ways of working.
Cloud hosting and platform services.
Secure software delivery lifecycle principles.
CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
Logging, monitoring and alerting.
Version control and collaborative development.
Infrastructure as Code concepts.
Incident, change and problem management.
UK government digital service principles.
Data protection, security and information governance considerations.
Qualifications or Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate.
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
ITIL Foundation.
Agile Foundation or Scrum certification.
Terraform Associate.
GitHub Foundations or GitHub Actions training.If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website
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