Senior DevOps (Platform Engineer)

As a Senior DevOps Engineer in HMRC's Enterprise Cloud Services, you drive robust cloud platform services and automation to deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions for millions of users. You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product teams, and advance modern engineering practices across CI/CD, IaC, and cloud security. The role supports HMRC’s digital transformation by enabling reliable, cost-efficient cloud platforms. This is a hands-on, leadership-minded position in a growth-focused Cloud Centre of Excellence.

• Hybrid and flexible working
• Generous leave (25–30 days)
• Civil Service pension contributions
• Coaching and development
• Family-friendly policies
• Career development opportunities

• Build, automate and operate cloud platform services using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Design, standardise and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines with testing, security, and compliance templates
• Apply cloud security best practices and support audits to ensure compliance
• Optimize platform performance, reliability, cost, and operational efficiency through monitoring
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams and resolve complex issues
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture

• Experience building enterprise-scale AWS or Azure cloud platforms
• Delivering CI/CD tooling services (GitLab, Artifactory, Jira, Confluence)
• Implementing security and secrets tooling (Vault, OpsView)
• Building container platforms (AKS, EKS, Kubernetes)
• Delivering machine image pipelines and/or DNS solutions
• Strong IaC experience (Terraform) plus scripting (Python, Go, Bash)

• Mentoring and technical leadership
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Strong communication and collaboration
• Terraform (IaC)
• GitLab CI/CD
• Ansible