HMRC is the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority and we have a vital purpose: we collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services and help families and individuals with targeted financial support. Cybercrime & Forensic Services (CFS) sits within HMRC’s wider Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) responsible for the department’s civil and criminal investigation work. FIS ensures that HMRC has an effective approach to taking on the most serious tax evasion and fraud. Working across Law Enforcement and government, CFS provides investigative tools and forensic techniques to front-line investigations and works with key partners to develop and provide access to new technology and systems to enable investigators to respond to serious and complex tax evasion and crime. HMRC's Cybercrime & Forensic Services (CFS) plays an integral role in His Majesty's Government's fight against serious and organised crime, supporting investigations totalling hundreds of millions of pounds each year. The DevOps Lead Technical Engineer in CFS Infrastructure is a new role and will be vital to the successful delivery of the Digital Forensic Infrastructure business. It is an exciting time to join the team, and the role offers varied and challenging work. This includes extensive management responsibilities, managing a quality service and also managing resourcing, finances through project management. See what it’s like to work at HMRC: find out more about us or ask our colleagues a question. Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert. As DevOps Technical Lead, you will be responsible for designing, maintaining and evolving CFS’ cloud Infrastructure in line with strategy set by the Principal Technical Lead. You will provide technical management to the forensic infrastructure team across two sites, providing support and services to the wider CFS colleagues. The DevOps Technical Lead manages third party provision of infrastructure services and the provision of expertise to develop architectural solutions for infrastructure services throughout the service product life cycle. In this role, you will: Oversee programmes and projects. Work alongside the Principal Technical Lead to help the CFS Infrastructure team migrate to DevOps working processes and practices. Work with technical architects and the Principal Technical Lead to translate the architectural designs into operations and support technical architects in operationalising the designs. You will lead and direct infrastructure specialists' teams in building, managing, supporting and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy. At a senior level you will be working alongside experienced engineers as well as more junior colleagues, and you will be expected to share specialist knowledge and upskill others. You will work across multiple teams as an engineering specialist defining and refining organisation engineering standards. You will be required to push a mindset change within the organisation to foster engineering ownership of infrastructure development alongside software engineering activities. Create capability, through definition of training opportunities, pastoral care, and practice alignment. Be responsible for ensuring our digital services are adhering to regulator standards and best practice. Responsible for mentoring and support of engineers and trainee DevOps engineers. Exploiting and enhancing hybrid cloud services. We provide hybrid cloud services that balance on-premise and public cloud to offer true platform independence and optimum price performance. Protecting and securing our services. We ensure our IT systems remain secure and available, resilient to natural and human-caused disaster. Developing our people, capability and skills, providing our teams with professional pathways to develop and opportunities to progress within Technology Services. You will demonstrate, effective verbal and written communication skills as they will be required to discuss and present Management Information (MI) with colleagues of all grades.