Job Description:

Senior Dev Ops Engineer (SEO)

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 24th May 2026

📍 Location: Candidates can be based at any of the following Digital Hubs - Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham, Birmingham (Garrets Green) or Yeading (This role is suitable for hybrid working)

💷 Salary: £44,241 (The base pay is £44,241. In addition to this the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £14,552.
Candidates based in Yeading will receive the London Weighting allowance of £4,000)
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

🕘️ Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

🏆️ Available Positions: 2

Join DVSA’s mission to make roads safer and more efficient by shaping the future of digital public services. As a Senior Dev Ops Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in designing, building, and evolving high-impact digital platforms and services that serve millions across the UK. 

We’re looking for experienced Senior DevOps Engineers to join DVSA’s Cloud Platform team, working with teams to automate, operate, design and build cloud services.

Working in a product-centric development environment, you will bring strong DevOps, Infrastructure and Site Reliability Engineering skills to build, release and maintain services through Development to Production. Operating in Agile Teams and sprint-based release process.

As an experienced DevOps/platform engineer, you will act as a technical specialist and mentor to engineers, adopting an agile approach to delivery where new services or improvements are delivered collaboratively and incrementally to realise business value. Your development will be through a broad range of CI/CD technologies including Azure DevOps, Power Platform, Dynamics, GitHub, Terraform, Jira and confluence.

Top Responsibilities

• Deploy services using Infrastructure as Code (including Terraform) and an automation first approach. 
• Design, standardise and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD & Dynamics pipelines, including testing, security scanning, compliance checks and reusable templates.
• Support release and application life cycle management processes by deploying artifacts and solutions across multiple environments
• 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 across teams, helping to resolve complex technical challenges.
• Developing, enhancing and maintain solutions that put the user and user experience first.
• Fostering continuous improvement of services through identification and implementation of strategic end to end system improvements.
• Demonstrate leadership by providing influence, direction, and guidance to Engineers and Developers to support the delivery of objectives.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile on the job advert using the link provided.

Benefits

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
• Access to the staff discount portal.
• Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
• Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.
• 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

About You

• A proven track record in agile infra development and deployment via IaC
• Strong grasp of infrastructure design principles and systematic problem-solving skills.
• Proficient with tools supporting DevOps delivery including Azure DevOps, GitHub, Code repositories, Jira and Confluence.
• Proficiency in Terraform, PowerShell and CLI scripting
• Quick adoption of new programming tools, sharing knowledge with peers and juniors.
• Maintaining, enhancing and troubleshooting pipelines including failures and performance improvements
• Familiar with application release and deployment process across environments
• Awareness of automated code quality and security tools
• Awareness of software design principles and experienced in supported Software release processes
• Experience coaching engineers within Agile frameworks, ensuring quality and timely delivery.
• Effective negotiation and communication with stakeholders on technical matters.
• Experience in diagnosing production issues, utilising testing for solution validation, and understanding of security principles.

How to Apply

👉 Read the full description and apply at CS Jobs using the link provided.

This vacancy closes at 23:55 on Sunday 24th May 2026