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Job Vacancy DevOps Engineer - HM Land Registry - HEO

Plymouth

Government Digital & Data

Job position

Permanent
As soon as possible
£42k-45k
Hybrid
Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
Published on 03/02/2026

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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.  

HMLR expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office.  

For more information about the role, please see the attached candidate pack.

Candidate profile

To meet the requirements of 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. 

You will have experience of supporting Linux Operating Systems, containers and containerised workloads e.g. orchestration services such as OpenShift and Kubernetes. You will be experienced with at least one programming language such as Ruby, Java, Python, Javascript or Go.

In addition, you will have 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.  You will be used to working in an agile environment building, deploying, supporting, and operating cloud applications (in particular AWS).  

Working environment

Location

Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS

About the jobJob summary

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. 

We are looking for two DevOps Engineer's 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.

London, England, United Kingdom
> 1000 employees
Corporate / Direct Employer
Government Digital and Data is a community of experts leading digital transformation in government, creating more efficient services that have a meaningful impact on people’s lives. Government Digital and Data professionals benefit from cross-government events and learning. From webinars from the world’s leading innovators to digital upskilling sessions.They enhance our professionals’ skills and capabilities, which ultimately enables them to be a part of the world-leading advancements in digital transformation and government innovation.

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