Provide technical leadership for DevOps and DevSecOps across CPS, setting standards, reusable patterns and practical guardrails while remaining hands‑on where needed, assessing emerging technologies and prioritising improvements that support organisational goals and team needs.
£60,390 - £74,600
£60,390 - £69,510 (National) / £64,880 - £74,600 + £3,150 RRA (London)
- Provide technical leadership for DevOps and DevSecOps across CPS, setting standards, reusable patterns and practical guardrails while remaining hands‑on where needed, assessing emerging technologies and prioritising improvements that support organisational goals and team needs.
- Design, improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines, release automation and deployment approaches that enable teams to build, test and deploy services safely, consistently and at pace.
- Embed security, quality, compliance and auditability into the software delivery lifecycle through automated controls, including code quality, dependency, vulnerability and software supply chain checks.
- Improve developer experience and operational readiness through infrastructure as code, containerisation, self‑service tooling, observability, deployment diagnostics and resilient production patterns.
- Shape and evolve the DevOps and platform engineering roadmap, research and pilot emerging DevOps tools and practices and assess them against our existing stack, building a possible case for adoption including migration effort, long‑term maintenance etc.
- Nice to have: Microsoft Azure
- Nice to have: Azure Kubernetes Service
- Nice to have: Helm
- Nice to have: container registries
- Nice to have: cloud native deployment patterns
- Civil Service contributory pension up to 28.9%
- 25 days’ leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years
- £350 each year to spend on personal development
- lawyer training programme for all new prosecutors
- extra privilege day to mark the King's birthday
