Location
Central London

Hours
Full Time - Some flexible working outside standard office hours required to support live digital services and deployment pipelines, including out-of-hours pipeline updates, smoke testing and maintenance.

Salary
£70,725 per annum

About the Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer at HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS), you will collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders including user researchers, product managers, designers, business analysts, delivery managers and digital architects. Together, you will work towards transforming public services through smarter use of technology.

You will be responsible for maintaining and evolving Wowza and Camunda instances in the Production environment, as well as partnering with Software Development teams to enhance DevOps practices.

Your key responsibilities will include designing, building, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling and engineering standards across services and platforms. You will transform technical requirements into effective DevOps tooling and processes that enable safe, fast and reliable product delivery.

You will ensure deployment strategies are repeatable, scalable, resilient and highly available across multiple environments, automate infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks using infrastructure as code and scripting, and support live services including incident response, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

Additionally, you will implement and improve observability through monitoring, alerting, logging and dashboards, apply security best practices across the delivery lifecycle, manage service availability and performance in a cost-conscious manner, and coach and mentor junior colleagues to develop DevOps capability across the organisation.

The role also involves participation in recruitment, procurement and supplier engagement, and supporting planned and urgent out-of-hours work for releases, pipeline updates, smoke testing, incidents and essential maintenance.

Technologies heavily used include Java and Spring Boot, Node.js, Power Platform, Jenkins, Dynatrace, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, Terraform, Postgres, Redis, and the GOV.UK Design System.

Experience
- Strong experience designing and operating cloud native platforms and deployment pipelines in enterprise environments.
- Hands-on expertise with infrastructure as code and automation tooling such as Terraform and scripting languages like Bash, Python or Groovy.
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD practices, source control, build tooling and release automation.
- Experience supporting and improving live services including incident management, service support, monitoring and operational troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of platform security including identity and access management, secrets management, vulnerability mitigation and secure engineering practices.
- Ability to design scalable, resilient and supportable solutions with understanding of networking, certificates, APIs and systems integration.

About You
- Able to work flexibly outside standard office hours to support live services and deployment pipelines.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify bottlenecks and solve complex operational problems.
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills to support junior colleagues and promote knowledge sharing.
- Committed to applying security best practices and delivering high-quality, reliable services.
- Collaborative and adaptable, working effectively with diverse stakeholders to deliver transformational public services.

Qualifications
- Relevant technical qualifications or equivalent experience in DevOps, cloud platforms, automation and infrastructure management.
- Experience supporting media/video streaming platforms such as Wowza and/or workflow or orchestration platforms such as Camunda is desirable but not essential.