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As a DevOps Engineer your main day to day responsibilities will be: Providing hands-on technical support, troubleshooting platform use and configuration issues. Support & mentorship of junior developers. Development, Maintenance and continuous improvement of in-house automation platforms, scripts and services. Contributing to routine monitoring activities, identifying performance improvements and security enhancements. End-to-end technical onboarding of new systems into the Cyber Security environment. Development, maintenance and continuous improvement of Cyber Security tooling and services. Supporting Cyber Security functions with technical expertise & advice. Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance. Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office. Travel to the Manchester office will be required for the successful candidate.

You will join a team in DBS Digital, Information and Technology (DIT) responsible for exploiting and administering the DBS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform, in support of Civilian People business needs. Working closely with engineers, developers, other architects and the wider Civilian People Change Delivery Services, your focus will be on designing and improving the OCI platform to enable DBS to provide its Civilian People services. This includes support to the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies enabling and extending the Oracle HCM Cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) HR, Payroll and Expenses system MyHR. This role will also involve architectural oversight of a MODCloud iACE (Microsoft Azure) tenant hosting the public-facing Discover My Benefits website. Role Specific Responsibilities Responsible for solution designs at application, data, platform or security level (dependent on background), consisting of Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service technologies providing network, integration and security views Recommend solutions to business requirements, completing options analyses where appropriate, and balancing functional fit against cost, strategic alignment and non-functional requirements such as supportability, interoperability, scalability and reusability Create and amend High Level Designs (HLDs), ensuring they are current and accurate, provide sufficient technical detail and explain how the MOD’s many assurance requirements (e.g. Secure-by-Design, JSP 453) are met Represent and advocate for solutions at the Technical Design Authority (TDA), and contribute to discussions around solutions proposed by other teams Apply robust architectural governance across Change Requests (CRs) and projects, ensuring decision logs are maintained and designs are completed and approved, whilst also working at pace to facilitate agile delivery of proofs of concept (POCs) and minimum viable products (MVPs)

This job role is within Digital Services and Technology in the Vehicle Certification Agency. The postholder leads on the development and delivery forming part of our core product set of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. This role reports into the Chief Digital & Information Officer and is part of a multi-disciplinary team who develop and manage a broad suite of digital products and applications. Your main duties will include but will not be limited to: Design and Development: Lead the design, development, and implementation of custom solutions using Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Full-Stack Development: Develop and maintain both front-end and back-end components of applications, ensuring seamless integration and performance. Collaboration: Lead and work closely with external development teams to form a cohesive hybrid development team, ensuring effective communication and collaboration. Solution Delivery: Oversee the delivery of digital solutions, ensuring they meet business requirements and are delivered on time and within budget. Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Quality Assurance: Ensure the quality and performance of developed solutions through rigorous testing and code reviews. Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of development processes, code, and solutions for future reference and knowledge sharing. Information security: You can maintain the security, confidentiality and integrity of information systems through compliance with relevant legislation and regulations. You can design, implement and operate controls and management strategies to allow this Modern standards approach: You can apply a modern standards approach throughout automation and testing. Innovation: Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and proactively suggest improvements and innovations to enhance our digital solutions. User focus: You can understand users and identify who they are and what their needs are, based on evidence. You can translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs. You can engage in meaningful interactions and relationships with users. You can show that you put users first and can manage competing priorities. Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public. For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

When you join our collaborative and creative team of software developers, it will be your task to design, code, test, correct and document large programmes and modifications from supplied specifications, and provide costs, timescales and estimate the resources required to effect change. Using all your skills as you collaborate with our clients and users on the content and appearance of complex web pages, we’ll also expect you to create and test pages with specified content and layout, and develop web interfaces to new or existing applications. You’ll have a number of other important responsibilities – these include analysing data requirements to establish, modify or maintain object and data models, evaluating potential solutions and demonstrating, installing and commissioning the selected products. Using application management software and tools to collect performance statistics to ensure targets are met, you’ll perform essential maintenance and identify and resolve any problems you encounter. In addition, you’ll maintain your knowledge of specific technical specialisms, use this to execute a range of specific tasks, and provide detailed advice regarding their application. Use all your specialist development skills as you help defend the UK’s interests With Agile and ITIL Foundation level qualifications or relevant practical experience in a similar role to this one, you should hold Microsoft role-based certification and be skilled at working with technologies in a secure enterprise environment. It’s also important that you possess well developed knowledge of database concepts, architectures, software and facilities, and have a good understanding of object and data modelling techniques and design principles. It goes without saying that you’ll have excellent numerical and analytical skills, and extensive knowledge of relevant programming languages. In addition, subject matter expertise in a key technology, tool or product would be desirable, as would experience of working in a variety of ITIL3 environments. Discover the support you need to grow your career further But we’re always looking to improve – just like you. That’s why when you join us, expect to receive a competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement and a Civil Service Pension. Along with this, you’ll also have access to training and other development opportunities to help grow your career with us. Our offices have an on-site gym, nursery, café, and restaurant, and we offer interest-free loans on season tickets and bikes to help you get there. It's a great set of benefits made to support all you do, and all you need. Want to see your future team’s work in action? Step into our Virtual Embassy and select a guide to take you round to see how we deliver for government customers and how you could help. Explore the embassy now at Every single colleague must be security cleared before joining us. If you’re successful in your application, we’ll ask you to undergo our vetting process to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) clearance. You can find out more about vetting at To find out more about our benefits and our organisation, please visit Closing date: 14/09/2025 It takes a diverse team to protect a diverse world The vital work we do takes an incredible community of colleagues, with different skills, backgrounds, cultures and identities. We support every individual, so that you always know you’re welcome and valued. It’s what makes us a Disability Confident employer. And why we’re recognised as a ‘Carer Confident’ workplace. And it’s how you know you’re joining an inspiring, inclusive organisation. Candidates who are judged to be close to meeting the criteria may be considered for other positions in FCDO Services which may be at a lower grade, but have a potential skills match

Job description Join ICS Digital, where innovation meets expertise to create digital solutions. We are a cohesive digital community who work in the open, solving problems together and fostering a culture of transparency and collaboration. Our commitment to user-focused design and data-driven decision-making ensures that we deliver accessible services tailored to the needs of our customers. As a Salesforce Developer, you will be responsible for the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of customised solutions within the ICS Digital Salesforce platform. You will deliver features and enhancements and collaborate closely with stakeholders to deliver high-quality, scalable, and efficient Salesforce solutions that meet the needs of our customers in DESNZ and DSIT. This is a crucial new role as part of our growing Salesforce cohort that will sit within the Software Developer team, you will work alongside Civil Servants and Contractors to develop a range of services on our Salesforce Platform. Visit our blog to learn more about us and our work:

Responsibilities User-centred content design . You will support the design of content to meet user needs and make complex language and processes easy to understand. You are aware of government accessibility requirements and can design content that works with common assistive technologies; UX Design . Work with a multidisciplinary team in an agile environment to turn concepts into user-centred designs. Understand as-is interaction design and identify improvement opportunities. Apply your knowledge of interaction design practices to create better user experiences; Evidence based practice. Use different types of data (including analytics, User feedback, User research and usability testing) to inform and explain your design decisions; User focus. Understand the range of different users who might access content and services and can identify their needs based on evidence. Ability to translate User stories into content that meets users’ needs and propose suitable design approaches; Agile working. Good working knowledge of Agile methodology and ability to apply agile mindset to delivery; Content/design concepts and prototyping. Ability to choose the best option to make content understandable to different audiences and to demonstrate a proposed approach to content changes or improvements; Stakeholder relationship management. Ability to communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders at different levels. You can tailor communication to their needs and work with them to build relationships while also meeting User needs; Strategic thinking. You can contribute to content strategies and policies, and can help create content patterns or standards.

Main duties consist of but are not limited to: Facilitate Agile Ceremonies : stand-ups, planning, retrospectives, and reviews to maintain momentum and foster continuous improvement. Team Planning & Prioritisation : Support the team in estimating, tracking, and delivering priorities, ensuring alignment with business goals. Stakeholder Collaboration : Work closely with the Product Manager and technical stakeholders to understand priorities and dependencies. Workflow : Oversee the daily flow of work items, ensuring progression from backlog to delivery, using flow metrics where appropriate to enhance predictability and efficiency. Reporting & Insights : Track and report against key milestones and forecasts, providing clear visibility on team progress. Programme-Level Engagement : Represent the team in programme-level sessions, articulating updates, risks, and dependencies. Risk & Issue Management : Identify and address risks promptly, ensuring mitigation plans are in place. Incident Response : Act as a key escalation point during live incidents, helping to coordinate resolution and communication. Removing Blockers : Proactively address obstacles that hinder team performance and ensure a clear pathway for delivery. Continuous Improvement : Drive team maturity in agile delivery practices, fostering a culture of learning and adaptation. Cross-Team Dependencies : Understand and manage dependencies with other teams and workstreams across the programme. Ensure smooth integration and alignment of delivery plans.

What you will do Your main day to day responsibilities will be: Actively maintain existing test frameworks or help develop new ones when required. You will also undertake code refactoring where necessary. Develop tests that are predictable, repeatable and implement automated verification of acceptance criteria to the greatest possible extent. Review test automation code and test utility code, and configure, monitor, and trigger tests to run on demand as well as continuously evaluating the efficacy of this process. Determine tools and approaches for virtualisation, data mocking , contract testing or other automated integration testing techniques and determine tools and approaches for automated test data management, test results aggregation and release management. Enable precise, real-time reports of automation test runs. Manage test infrastructure usage and determine approach to running distributed, parallel tests. Use container & Cloud technology to orchestrate faster, scalable tests. Interpret data from code scan, code quality and observability tools. Agree quality thresholds and provide actionable feedback in aiding quality improvement. Participate in the QAT Test Engineering community to help grow it.

Main duties consist of but are not limited to: Design and Develop User-Centred Services: Work in agile, multidisciplinary teams to rapidly develop design concepts for complex transformation programs, collaborating with service managers and programme directors. This includes actively participating in user research, creating prototypes, and designing user interactions across various channels, devices, and technologies, all while being able to justify design decisions with evidence and data. Promote and Implement Design Excellence : Champion a consistent, high-quality user experience by promoting reusable design elements and best practices across the IPO and wider government communities. This involves contributing to user-centred design standards and guidance, utilising the Design System, and ensuring designs meet accessibility, legal, and security requirements, as well as the Service Standard. Lead and Mentor Design Professionals: Provide management support, coaching, mentoring, and training to other designers (including HEO Interaction Designers), focusing on their development, the quality of their work, and ensuring adherence to best practices.

We are seeking a dedicated Senior Executive Officer (SEO) Enterprise Information Architect to join our team, reporting directly to the Assistant Head Information Architect within the Army Information Design Authority (DA). Collaboration with other enterprise domain architects and functional stakeholders is key, as you help integrate information architecture into the organisation in a standard, repeatable and reusable manner. The Info DA is the mechanism by which Director Information and the Army Chief Technology Officer can operate as the digital functional leader for the British Army. The organisation and information capability-portfolio requires a digital, data, information and architectural governance capability to support and control design operational outcomes and warfighting effectiveness, future proofing the Army's processes, information and technology footprint for maximum operational effectiveness across organisational boundaries in a digital and data age. As the SEO Enterprise Information Architect, you will be required to: Network and communicate with stakeholders across the information domain and identify opportunities for improvement Apply and develop architectural frameworks, principles and techniques Develop standard and scalable models to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex information Guide the organisation to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk Guide others in using appropriate architectural tools and methods Explain complex problems using clear language and artefacts Bring together disconnected information to inform decision making Responsible for the maintenance of the Army Information Architecture Repository Line Manage 1 x Higher Executive Officer (HEO) Civil Servant

- Help develop and improve pay and reward for the Government’s Digital and Data profession of over 25,000 by making sure our pay is competitive, and our arrangements are widely understood and adopted. Market pay analysis to inform the drafting of new 2025 business cases on: Senior Civil Service roles Cyber roles (not cyber security roles) Current Government Digital and Data roles - Capture and analysis of UK employment practice on bonuses and non-pay benefits to help build a profession-led reward approach for a future business case. - Reviewing and analysing departments’ business cases to adopt, or extend, the pay framework focusing on Spreadsheet analysis of department’s data, and savings estimates - Template completion - Advising and supporting departments Implementation preparation - Advising and supporting new adopting departments on capability assessment - Building a GDS library of adopting departments documentation and agreements connected to framework implementation. - Upkeep and own management information related to pay and reward across the GDD profession. - Support the pay and reward lead as necessary, e.g. deputise at meetings. Person specification Who you are You’re naturally analytical and enjoy diving into pay data, building models, testing ideas and spotting patterns others might miss. Excel is your go to tool and you know how to use it to make sense of the numbers. You’re a confident communicator and a trusted partner to stakeholders, with the ability to explain the "what" and "why" clearly, whether in a meeting or in writing. You also have a solid understanding of reward tools and frameworks, not just learning them, but experience of putting them into practice and seeing the results.

DBS DIT provides digital capability that supports corporate services across the Ministry of Defence, including Finance, Commercial, Payroll and Human Resources for Military Personnel, Civilian Personnel and Veterans. Our digital solutions comprise enterprise resource planning systems, performance management, analytics, automation, low code applications and public facing services through . As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be at the heart of managing and optimising our development processes. Your responsibilities will include overseeing tools and testing environments, managing central code control, maintaining development standards, and writing software that automates systems. You will design secure solutions and deliver complex projects using modern development standards. Your role will also involve troubleshooting and resolving complex service faults and designing efficient systems with medium levels of risk and complexity. You will actively collaborate with user researchers to champion user-focused design, as well as with technical and solutions architects and software developers. In addition, you will underpin the development of both internal user services and public-facing services. You will deploy and manage applications on OpenShift and third-party PaaS solutions and manage CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership, effective communication, decision-making skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement and development. Responsibilities A Senior DevOps Engineer delivers and integrates software to form a complete DevOps toolchain. They are responsible for planning and designing large groups of stories. At this role level, you will: Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems Manage service components and optimise development processes to ensure they meet business needs and performance indicators. Design secure solutions and services with controls specifically engineered to mitigate security threats. Use modern development standards to design, code, test, and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity. Identify, locate, and fix complex service faults while advising others on different methodologies and types of service support. Design systems with medium levels of risk and complexity, ensuring the selection of appropriate technology and efficient resource use. Collaborate with user researchers to champion user research, prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, and offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use. Deploy, manage, and scale applications on OpenShift and third-party Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, while setting up and managing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines. Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues

Your role will sit within the Service Design & Transition team and you will utilise your Service Management experience and knowledge to provide expertise to project teams, ensuring incoming services align to ITIL-based processes. Your role will involve translating the project’s technical service and end user requirements into a supported, secure and operational service, in alignment with current NCA operational processes. This role involves working with a variety of stakeholders to manage risks and build consensus around a design approach. You will be able to to work in alignment with current standards and policies, and will provide support to wider team members where required. Duties and Responsibilities Understanding and adhering to key Service Design & Transition and wider NCA processes and documentation, ensuring appropriate engagement with the appropriate (internal and/or external) functions: Will adhere to and respect Service Design & Transition processes, as well as any processes outside of the Service Design & Transition practice (e.g. project management office, enterprise design assurance - technology, change enablement. Collaborating with stakeholders to translate customer requirements, business requirements and contractual obligations into end-to-end service design: Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, including project teams, to identify and understand requirements for supporting the service post-implementation. Completing impact analysis of system and regulatory changes, identifying, understanding and assuring service risks, dependencies and issues. Working with operational teams to design service wraps and processes, including incident management, change management, problem management, availability management, and other core ITIL practices: Designing and building core ITIL-based processes to support the services you are assigned to. This involves working with key stakeholders, both internally and externally, to ensure the processes are as efficient and in alignment with wider policies as possible. Working with suppliers to ensure the support requirements for services can be fulfilled by current contractual obligations, and requesting uplifts where required: Ensuring any new support requirements for a supplier are worked through with the supplier and in place for go-live. Additionally, ensuring the NCA have a method to complete useful supplier management and ensure supplier performance after go-live. Ensuring risk management is undertaken appropriately for the services you are assigned: Identifying, understanding and assuring service risks, dependencies and issues. Highlighting to the project manager the impact that these may have on the project, whilst mitigating those within scope. Following the Service Design & Transition process utilising key artefacts to capture information gathered: Driving forward the production, collation and completion of service design documentation, including service acceptance criteria. Ensuring visibility, transparency and communications are open across teams, including regular reporting on progress: Provide regular updates of progress, challenges, risks, and planned tasks to key stakeholders. Present the end-to-end service design at the Service Transition Review Board, gaining approval to proceed into early life support and delivery into business as usual: Presenting at the Service Transition Review Board to receive feedback and seek approval to proceed. Championing the Service Design & Transition process, including identifying and implementing continual improvements: Representing the Service Design & Transition team at project level. Provide insight and participate in continual improvement initiatives. Potential for supporting multiple services/projects and the wider team: May work across multiple services at the same time. Provide/participate in peer reviews to other team members. Support Junior service Designers where required. Please note SC Enhanced on entry - DV STRAP must be obtained whilst in role. Those who do not achieve DV STRAP will be at risk of termination

As a Lead Developer managing a Scrum team, you will: Provide technical Leadership to your team. Coach and support your team to upskill their technical capabilities and ensure they design and deliver efficient and maintainable solutions. Communicate between the product owners and developers to ensure key deliverables are achieved and understood by both parties. Work with the wider developer community to define and document technical standards. Help and encourage your team to maximise their automated test coverage. Work closely with the Architects for design and the Platform team who manage our development pipeline using Concourse CI, SonarQube, AWS, Terraform and Artifactory. We use Docker containers and AWS ECS. Take the lead in sharing your knowledge and experience within our software development and lead software developer communities. As a Lead Developer within our R&D Team, you will work within a team of other Lead Developers as an individual contributor. You will use your highly technical skillset to: Develop and deliver Proof of Concepts. Evaluate different technologies for fitness of purpose and suitability for wider user. Investigate ongoing issues (process/systems/projects) and seek resolutions. Support Scrum teams where required. Show flexibility and maturity of approach. Keep up to date with technology advances. Approach problems in an analytical way. Accurately record and document findings. If you are looking for a place where you can focus on your own development as well as support others to succeed and perform at their best, then this is the role for you – either leading a Scrum team or working as a member of our R&D team. This is an exciting time to join us as we constantly evolve our own technical capabilities and ways of working to make our work at Companies House more efficient and easier to use for our users and customers. You will be joining a passionate team of Developers with varying levels of technical abilities. There are many other experienced Lead Developers and Principal Developers within Companies House, so you will be surrounded by a friendly community of experts who will fully support you.

As a BI Developer, you’ll: Design and build engaging dashboards and reports using Power BI Develop efficient, scalable data models in collaboration with our Data Architect and Technology teams Lead the transition to automated, self-service reporting across the Fund Work closely with analysts, business users, and stakeholders to ensure insights are accessible and actionable Apply user-centric design principles and continuously improve your products based on feedback and usage data We’re looking for someone who: Has experience turning user needs into BI solutions that drive decision-making Is skilled in Power BI (DAX, Power Query/M) and SQL Experienced in data modelling, UI/UX best practices, and enterprise BI development Is passionate about using data to support equity, sustainability, and community resilience Thrives in a collaborative, agile environment and is eager to keep learning Interview Date: 27th August, virtual Location: We have a hybrid approach to working, work pattern and location will be agreed with the successful candidate. The role can be based at any of our UK offices, these are Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Newcastle and Newtown. If you would like an informal conversation about the role specifically, please contact: Any questions about the recruitment process, please email:

Job description As the Interaction Designer, you'll: design clear, accessible, usable digital interfaces that meet user needs and follow the Design System create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to communicate design ideas and test assumptions collaborate in agile teams with product managers, user researchers, and developers to iterate services based on research, analytics, and feasibility participate in design critiques and reviews, giving and receiving constructive feedback contribute to user research activities and use findings to inform design decisions facilitate design workshops with teams, stakeholders, and users champion accessibility and inclusion, ensuring designs meet standards and legal requirements maintain and contribute to design systems, style guides, and component libraries to ensure consistency