DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our Transformation & Technology team to help us to achieve this.

The DevOps function is responsible for working with our IT software development teams to support the delivery of the platform and infrastructure for our new micro service applications as part of the digital transformation of our internal and external services.

Engineers are responsible for configuration, administration and support of the infrastructure using a DevOps methodology across multiple cloud infrastructures, ensuring they are secure, performant, supportable whilst following an agile approach to incremental delivery., As a DevOps Engineer for HM Land Registry, you will provide technical engineering capability for the Web Operations team, responsible for supporting production systems and working with Agile development teams to deliver new services in a highly available and supportable configuration using DevOps processes and tooling. You will engage with other DevOps Engineers and Senior DevOps Engineers, as well as coach and support Junior DevOps Engineers.

The role holder will take forward technical consolidation and/or improvement activities providing guidance and leadership to technicians within the IT Operations Practice and wider, whilst also working across DDaT to support and deliver solutions in line with the Technology and Business Strategies.

A minimum of 32 hours per week is essential for these roles. Please note that the roles may require travel, requiring an overnight stay. This role does require occasional planned out of hours working, in order to deal with IT changes and maintenance and may include an participation in an on-call rota., We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Developing Self and Others
• Working Together, The post will require a Security Check and will therefore be subject to further background checks, including meeting the UK minimum residency requirement of 5 years. Further details of the process and checks can be found here, * 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

Do you have experience in Terraform?, To be successful in this role, you will hold a qualification in Information Technology or a related area (Degree Level or equivalent) and / or experience in an IT field., • Experience of supporting Operating Systems, containers and containerised workloads e.g. orchestration services such as OpenShift and Kubernetes. • Experience with at least one programming language such as Ruby, Java, Python, JavaScript or Go. • Knowledge and experience of DevOps working practices of Continuous Integration. • The use of version control (Git and GitLab CI) configuration-as-code across cloud and on-premise environments using Terraform and version control systems. • Experience working in an agile environment building, deploying, supporting, and operating cloud applications., * Holds a qualification in Information Technology or a related area (Degree Level or equivalent) and / or experience in an IT field.

• Experience of supporting Operating Systems, containers and containerised workloads e.g. docker containers.
• Experience with at least one programming language such as Ruby, Java, Python, Javascript, Go
• Understanding of Infrastructure-as-code across cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, on-prem)

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.

If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a blended interview, held in person, in our Plymouth office. The interviews will take place week commencing 6th July 2026., Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

£42,500 - £45,700, Alongside your salary of £42,500, HM Land Registry contributes £12,312 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry/about/recruitment#what-hm-land-registry-can-offer-you

It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue on a major transformation programme. HMLR’s ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data.