DevOps Engineer - Department for Education - SEO

Location Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2WT : Darlington, North East England, DL1 5QE : Manchester, North West England, M1 2WD : Sheffield, Yorkshire and the Humber, S1 2FJ : City of Westminster, London (region), SW1P 3BT About the job Job summary Help build and run the platforms behind over £85bn of education funding. The Department for Education (DfE) is recruiting DevOps Engineers (SEO) to support the design, build, and operation of the platforms that underpin one of the largest funding operations in government. Our Funding Services support the allocation and payment of funding to education providers across England, making this a critical national service where reliability, accuracy, and security are essential. This role sits within the DevOps profession in the Digital and Infrastructure Group and supports a significant transformation of how these services are engineered and operated. We are simplifying a complex estate, moving towards a single Azure tenancy, and adopting containerised platforms (AKS) and modern CI/CD practices to improve consistency, resilience, and delivery across a broad portfolio of internal and public-facing services. As a DevOps Engineer, you will contribute to the delivery of DevOps and DevSecOps practices through automation, platform capabilities, and engineering standards. You will help implement reusable patterns, support infrastructure and policy as code, and improve the reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness of our live services. ..... full job details .....