DevOps (MLOps) Engineer

About the Role

The DevOps (MLOps) Engineer ensures service reliability and performance by maintaining and supporting key components, proactively monitoring metrics, and performing updates to ensure accessibility, stability, and capacity for production and deployment.

They provide guidance on CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, advising developers on best practices to enable secure and efficient deployments. They help streamline automation and software delivery processes, ensuring the platform is effectively utilised.

They share common responsibilities in automation, reliability, and infrastructure management with other DevOps colleagues. Additionally, they collaborate with teams to ensure secure, scalable, and well-monitored platforms that align with business needs.

Tools and Technologies

We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:

• Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power Platform
• Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular
• Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, Neo4J, Amazon Athena
• DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Dynatrace, Helm Charts

Essential Skills

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for Infrastructure Engineering, with the following skills or strong experience in:

• Designing and implementing cloud solutions using AWS or Azure, applying best practices for architecture, security, and scalability. (SWDN)
• Configuring and maintaining automated testing, scanning, and code analysis tools to support CI/CD and improve software quality. (TEST)
• Monitoring AI applications and responding to incidents using established procedures, ensuring system availability and performance. (ASUP)
• Developing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scripts to automate build, deployment, and provisioning activities. (PROG)
• Implementing and optimising CI/CD pipelines to enhance software delivery efficiency and reliability. (SINT)
• Applying data management best practices for cloud resources, ensuring structured naming, tagging, metadata, backups, and documentation. (DATM)

What's in it for you?

• A civil service pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%.
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
• The ability to potentially adopt flexible working options that suit your work/life balance, plus the opportunity in future to take a career break.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
• Eight days public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
• 26 weeks maternity, adoption or shared parental leave at full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, after qualifying service.
• Maternity and adoption support leave (also known as paternity leave) of two weeks full pay, after qualifying service.
• Paid leave for fostering approval processes, support when a child is substantively placed with you plus a foster to adopt policy.
• Support for guardians and kinship carers.
• Corporate membership of ‘Employers for Carers’ providing additional information and advice for carers, plus a ‘Carer’s Passport’ to discuss workplace needs and underpin supportive conversations.
• Time off to deal with emergencies and certain other unplanned special circumstances.

Security Clearance

Please note that this role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years.