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# Senior DevOps (Platform Engineer)

- **Company:** HMRC
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £58,541.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Confluence, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Domain Name System (DNS), Integrated Development Environments, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Ansible, Scripting, HybridCloud, Gitlab, Containerization, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Performance Monitor, Terraform, Vulnerability Analysis, Artifactory
- **Published:** September 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2981095245-2

## About the Role

* Experience in one or many of the following areas:
 * Building enterprise-scale AWS or Azure cloud platforms.
 * Delivering CI/CD tooling services (GitLab, Artifactory, Jira, Confluence).
 * Implementing security and secrets tooling (Vault, OpsView).
 * Building container platforms (AKS, EKS, Kubernetes).
 * Delivering machine image pipelines and/or DNS solutions.
 * Strong IaC experience (Terraform preferred) plus scripting skills (Python, Go, or Bash).

Desirable Criteria

 * Awareness of FinOps and cloud cost management.
 * Cloud related certifications
 * Familiarity with the principles behind ITIL service operations
 * Contributing to training and development pathways for junior engineers

## Description

As a Senior DevOps (Platform Engineer) within HMRC's Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS), you will be pivotal in delivering robust cloud platform services. Working in a product-centric development environment, you will bring extensive DevOps skills and Site Reliability Engineering awareness to build services and bring them into full production operation., As an experienced DevOps/platform engineer, you will act as a technical specialist and mentor to developers, adopting an agile approach to delivery where new services or improvements are delivered collaboratively and incrementally to realise business value at the earliest opportunity. Your development will be through a broad range of CI/CD technologies including GitLab, Ansible, Artifactory and Jira., * Build, automate and operate cloud platform services using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and an automation first approach.

 * Design, standardise and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including testing, security scanning, compliance checks and reusable templates.
 * Apply cloud security best practice, support audits and ensure services meet compliance requirements.
 * Optimise platform performance, reliability, cost and operational efficiency through proactive monitoring and analysis.
 * Provide technical guidance, troubleshoot complex engineering issues and share best practice across teams.
 * Provide hands on support and mentorship to engineering teams, helping to resolve complex technical challenges.

Mentoring & Technical Leadership

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will proactively mentor junior engineers, share knowledge, offer constructive feedback and guide others through complex problems. You will lead by example, communicate clearly, and help build a collaborative, high performing engineering culture.


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