Location Croydon, Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow About the job Job summary The Automation & Innovation (A&I) function is the Home Office's strategic partner for automation, AI, and innovation delivery, operating within the Chief Technology Office. Automation & Innovation delivers secure, value driven solutions that remove manual effort, improve operational efficiency, and enable smarter ways of working across the department. Our AI as a Service platform is a critical enabler for AI delivery across the department. This trailblazing multi-cloud service is creating secure, scalable and reusable AI microservices to enable teams across the Home Office to harness AI to transform public services. The successful candidate for this role will join our growing AI as a Service team. As Lead Infrastructure Engineer for AI as a Service, you will lead and direct our AI infrastructure team in building, managing, transitioning, supporting and maintaining AI solutions according to departmental policy and foster open feedback and continuous learning with service support to ensure continuous improvement. You are responsible for overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects and tasks. You will oversee programmes and projects and work with Technical Architects to translate the architectural designs into operational systems and support technical architects. You will be responsible for coordinating with third party provision of infrastructure services and the provision of expertise to deliver architectural solutions for infrastructure services throughout the service lifecycle. 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 . Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert. Watch this short video to hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital. Job description Your main day to day responsibilities will be: Leading the AI as a Service team in the implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services. Reviewing systems designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, integration of multiple systems and technology and that 'Secure by Design' principles have been followed. Managing planning of system and/or acceptance tests, coordinating both functional and non-functional specifications and provide authoritative advice and guidance on test planning. Troubleshooting and identifying problems across different technology capabilities including compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, cloud, commercial off the shelf (COTS) and ovia specification and configuration of automated monitoring, logging, and alerting systems, and manual interventions. Establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle and ensure that practitioners adhere to this. Manage resources to ensure that the HO teams are onboarded to AIaaS effectively and new microservices can be integrated into the AIaaS platform. After a solution has been integrated, you will evaluate the success of the project, identifying best practices and lessons learned. You will provide feedback to teams and incorporate this information into future plans. Managing, coaching and mentoring more junior engineers. Tools and Technologies we use: We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including: Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power platform Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform AI: Azure ML Studio, Python, Github Copilot, OpenAI Person specification Working pattern This role is available on a full-time basis with the option of compressed hours working. This role is also suitable for part-time working hours, with a minimum requirement to work 3 days per week due to business requirements. Essential Skills You'll have a demonstrable passion for Infrastructure Engineering, with the following skills or strong experience in: Managing and delivering complex technologies, including design and deployment of AI solutions to cloud platforms, within time, cost and quality targets. (HSIN, ITOP)( Lead essential criteria ). Leading the technology team to adhere to good engineering principles from architecture through to deployment (DESN, TEST) Providing leadership to the teams responsible for delivery of the service through effective direction and coaching (OFCL) Different methodologies including Agile, waterfall and continuous integration principles (TEST) Building strong partnerships with diverse teams across multiple technologies and areas of the organisation (OFCL) Advising on future technology changes and innovations and defining best practice for network improvements and information security (ITOP). Providing timely incident response, triage and resolution for issues raised through infrastructure monitoring, dashboards, or user reporting (USUP).
Apr 08, 2026
Full time
Location Croydon, Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow About the job Job summary The Automation & Innovation (A&I) function is the Home Office's strategic partner for automation, AI, and innovation delivery, operating within the Chief Technology Office. Automation & Innovation delivers secure, value driven solutions that remove manual effort, improve operational efficiency, and enable smarter ways of working across the department. Our AI as a Service platform is a critical enabler for AI delivery across the department. This trailblazing multi-cloud service is creating secure, scalable and reusable AI microservices to enable teams across the Home Office to harness AI to transform public services. The successful candidate for this role will join our growing AI as a Service team. As Lead Infrastructure Engineer for AI as a Service, you will lead and direct our AI infrastructure team in building, managing, transitioning, supporting and maintaining AI solutions according to departmental policy and foster open feedback and continuous learning with service support to ensure continuous improvement. You are responsible for overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects and tasks. You will oversee programmes and projects and work with Technical Architects to translate the architectural designs into operational systems and support technical architects. You will be responsible for coordinating with third party provision of infrastructure services and the provision of expertise to deliver architectural solutions for infrastructure services throughout the service lifecycle. 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 . Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert. Watch this short video to hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital. Job description Your main day to day responsibilities will be: Leading the AI as a Service team in the implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services. Reviewing systems designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, integration of multiple systems and technology and that 'Secure by Design' principles have been followed. Managing planning of system and/or acceptance tests, coordinating both functional and non-functional specifications and provide authoritative advice and guidance on test planning. Troubleshooting and identifying problems across different technology capabilities including compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, cloud, commercial off the shelf (COTS) and ovia specification and configuration of automated monitoring, logging, and alerting systems, and manual interventions. Establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle and ensure that practitioners adhere to this. Manage resources to ensure that the HO teams are onboarded to AIaaS effectively and new microservices can be integrated into the AIaaS platform. After a solution has been integrated, you will evaluate the success of the project, identifying best practices and lessons learned. You will provide feedback to teams and incorporate this information into future plans. Managing, coaching and mentoring more junior engineers. Tools and Technologies we use: We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including: Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power platform Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform AI: Azure ML Studio, Python, Github Copilot, OpenAI Person specification Working pattern This role is available on a full-time basis with the option of compressed hours working. This role is also suitable for part-time working hours, with a minimum requirement to work 3 days per week due to business requirements. Essential Skills You'll have a demonstrable passion for Infrastructure Engineering, with the following skills or strong experience in: Managing and delivering complex technologies, including design and deployment of AI solutions to cloud platforms, within time, cost and quality targets. (HSIN, ITOP)( Lead essential criteria ). Leading the technology team to adhere to good engineering principles from architecture through to deployment (DESN, TEST) Providing leadership to the teams responsible for delivery of the service through effective direction and coaching (OFCL) Different methodologies including Agile, waterfall and continuous integration principles (TEST) Building strong partnerships with diverse teams across multiple technologies and areas of the organisation (OFCL) Advising on future technology changes and innovations and defining best practice for network improvements and information security (ITOP). Providing timely incident response, triage and resolution for issues raised through infrastructure monitoring, dashboards, or user reporting (USUP).
Location This post can be based in any location within England and Wales where a CPS office is located. Whilst it's an expectation of the role to travel to CPS locations as per business needs, CPS is disability confident employer and all reasonable adjustments will be considered in line with Equality Act of 2010. About the job Job summary The Lead Technical Architect operates at a strategic level within the Digital and Information Directorate (DID), reporting to the Principal Technical and Enterprise Architect. The role is pivotal in shaping the technical direction of digital services across multiple teams and projects. Its primary purpose is to ensure that systems are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with organisational and government standards. Key responsibilities include guiding technical design, making critical architectural decisions, and assuring solution quality through reviews and adherence to architecture principles. The role promotes reuse, interoperability, and cross-organisation and cross-government collaboration, identifying opportunities for shared platforms and services to deliver better value. Beyond technical oversight, the Lead Technical Architect plays a leadership role in mentoring other architects and technical staff, fostering continuous learning and professional development. They will be a leader in the architecture community, embedding best practices and driving innovation and architectural alignment across delivery teams. Strategically, the position requires maintaining awareness of emerging technologies, government digital strategies, and socio-political trends to ensure architectural decisions remain forward-looking. The architect will engage senior stakeholders to influence strategic direction and inform planning and investment decisions. The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you're applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role . There's no guarantee that we will grant this approval. You must be aged 16 before starting in this role. The start date is expected to be 8-12 weeks after the application deadline. As part of this role, you are expected to undertake direct line management responsibilities. Job description Your roles and responsibilities: You define and own technical architecture for complex digital services, ensuring alignment with organisational and government standards (e.g., GDS framework). You provide strategic technical leadership, influencing design decisions and guiding delivery teams across multiple projects. You assure solution quality through architecture reviews, governance, and adherence to enterprise principles such as scalability, security, and interoperability. You promote reuse and shared platforms, identifying opportunities for cross-government collaboration and cost-effective solutions. You mentor and develop technical staff, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the architecture community. You engage senior stakeholders, translating technical concepts into business value and influencing investment decisions. You stay ahead of emerging technologies and trends, ensuring architectural decisions remain innovative and future-proof. You lead on risk management and compliance, including security standards and technical assurance processes. You champion best practices, embedding agile and DevOps principles into architecture and delivery approaches. A copy of the full job description is attached. Person specification To be eligible to apply, you need to: Have substantial experience in technical architecture, including designing and assuring complex digital services that meet organisational and relevant sector standards, preferably HMG standards. Demonstrate strategic thinking, with the ability to see the bigger picture, align technical decisions to long-term organisational goals, and anticipate emerging technologies and trends. Show leadership capability, including mentoring technical staff, fostering professional development, and leading architecture communities to embed best practices. Possess strong stakeholder engagement skills, able to influence senior leaders and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences. Be adept at promoting reuse and interoperability, identifying opportunities for shared platforms and cross-organisation and cross-government collaboration to deliver value. Have a proven ability to assure solution quality, through governance, reviews, and adherence to enterprise architecture principles such as scalability, security, and sustainability. Understand agile and DevSecOps practices, working with these principles in architecture and delivery approaches. Hold or be eligible for SC clearance, as this is mandatory for the role. You also need to demonstrate the following technical skills: Cyber Security Architecture Systems & Infrastructure Engineering Cloud Engineering Software Engineering Networking Integration & Middleware
Apr 08, 2026
Full time
Location This post can be based in any location within England and Wales where a CPS office is located. Whilst it's an expectation of the role to travel to CPS locations as per business needs, CPS is disability confident employer and all reasonable adjustments will be considered in line with Equality Act of 2010. About the job Job summary The Lead Technical Architect operates at a strategic level within the Digital and Information Directorate (DID), reporting to the Principal Technical and Enterprise Architect. The role is pivotal in shaping the technical direction of digital services across multiple teams and projects. Its primary purpose is to ensure that systems are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with organisational and government standards. Key responsibilities include guiding technical design, making critical architectural decisions, and assuring solution quality through reviews and adherence to architecture principles. The role promotes reuse, interoperability, and cross-organisation and cross-government collaboration, identifying opportunities for shared platforms and services to deliver better value. Beyond technical oversight, the Lead Technical Architect plays a leadership role in mentoring other architects and technical staff, fostering continuous learning and professional development. They will be a leader in the architecture community, embedding best practices and driving innovation and architectural alignment across delivery teams. Strategically, the position requires maintaining awareness of emerging technologies, government digital strategies, and socio-political trends to ensure architectural decisions remain forward-looking. The architect will engage senior stakeholders to influence strategic direction and inform planning and investment decisions. The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you're applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role . There's no guarantee that we will grant this approval. You must be aged 16 before starting in this role. The start date is expected to be 8-12 weeks after the application deadline. As part of this role, you are expected to undertake direct line management responsibilities. Job description Your roles and responsibilities: You define and own technical architecture for complex digital services, ensuring alignment with organisational and government standards (e.g., GDS framework). You provide strategic technical leadership, influencing design decisions and guiding delivery teams across multiple projects. You assure solution quality through architecture reviews, governance, and adherence to enterprise principles such as scalability, security, and interoperability. You promote reuse and shared platforms, identifying opportunities for cross-government collaboration and cost-effective solutions. You mentor and develop technical staff, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the architecture community. You engage senior stakeholders, translating technical concepts into business value and influencing investment decisions. You stay ahead of emerging technologies and trends, ensuring architectural decisions remain innovative and future-proof. You lead on risk management and compliance, including security standards and technical assurance processes. You champion best practices, embedding agile and DevOps principles into architecture and delivery approaches. A copy of the full job description is attached. Person specification To be eligible to apply, you need to: Have substantial experience in technical architecture, including designing and assuring complex digital services that meet organisational and relevant sector standards, preferably HMG standards. Demonstrate strategic thinking, with the ability to see the bigger picture, align technical decisions to long-term organisational goals, and anticipate emerging technologies and trends. Show leadership capability, including mentoring technical staff, fostering professional development, and leading architecture communities to embed best practices. Possess strong stakeholder engagement skills, able to influence senior leaders and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences. Be adept at promoting reuse and interoperability, identifying opportunities for shared platforms and cross-organisation and cross-government collaboration to deliver value. Have a proven ability to assure solution quality, through governance, reviews, and adherence to enterprise architecture principles such as scalability, security, and sustainability. Understand agile and DevSecOps practices, working with these principles in architecture and delivery approaches. Hold or be eligible for SC clearance, as this is mandatory for the role. You also need to demonstrate the following technical skills: Cyber Security Architecture Systems & Infrastructure Engineering Cloud Engineering Software Engineering Networking Integration & Middleware
Location Croydon, Manchester, Sheffield About the job Job summary The Senior DevOps Engineer ensures service reliability and performance by maintaining, designing, and building key components in line with standards, ensuring security and effective monitoring. Collaborating with architects and teams, they clarify design constraints, workforce needs, and cost implications during discovery phases. They provide guidance on CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, enabling efficient and secure deployments for new users, ensuring automation and streamlined software delivery processes. They share common responsibilities in automation, reliability, and infrastructure management with other DevOps colleagues. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities. 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 . Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert. Watch this short video to hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital. Job description The Senior DevOps Engineer will contribute to and lead activities related to the migration of services to AWS platforms. This includes assessing existing legacy services, identifying modernisation opportunities, and re platforming workloads to cloud native architectures. They will design and implement secure, scalable, and cost efficient AWS solutions using modern engineering patterns such as containerisation, serverless computing, automated IaC deployments, and improved observability. They will work closely with product, delivery, architecture, and engineering teams to ensure smooth and low risk transitions from legacy systems, supporting the adoption of modern platforms and tooling while embedding best practice approaches for resilience, automation, and operational readiness across services. Tools and Technologies we use We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies. We have a large range in the Home Office including: Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power Platform Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, Neo4J, Amazon Athena DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Dynatrace AI: Python, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Person specification Working pattern This role is available on a full-time basis with the option of compressed hours working. This role is also suitable for part-time working hours, with a minimum requirement to work 3 days per week due to business requirements. Main responsibilities Supporting teams in mapping their stories to available platforms, ensuring effective and secure service deployment. Developing and maintaining hardened base containers, undertaking skilled platform build and support activities. Identifying gaps in best practices, advising teams on delivery risks and recommending improvements. Assisting engineers with service topology discovery, helping define quality assurance (QA) and deployment pipelines. Driving adoption of new tools and technologies, improving teams' integration approaches. Developing and enhance support processes, ensuring better user experience and operational efficiency. Essential skills You'll have a demonstrable passion for DevOps culture , with the following skills or strong experience in: Leading the design, implementation, and review of complex cloud solutions using AWS, ensuring alignment with best practices for architecture and scalability. (SWDN) Driving the implementation of automated testing, scanning, and code analysis tooling, and providing guidance on best practices to ensure continuous integration and code quality. (TEST) Identifying and enforcing the use of processes, procedures, and tooling for application monitoring, ongoing maintenance, and incident response to ensure high availability and performance. (ASUP) Devising and leading the implementation of data management processes and standards for cloud resources, covering areas like naming, tagging, metadata management, backups, and documentation for compliance and efficiency. (DATM) Designing, coding, testing, maintaining, and documenting scripts and infrastructure-as-code definitions to automate build, deployment, and provisioning activities, enhancing operational workflows. (PROG) Specifying and leading the implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring alignment with best practices to facilitate automated and efficient deployment cycles. (SINT)
Apr 08, 2026
Full time
Location Croydon, Manchester, Sheffield About the job Job summary The Senior DevOps Engineer ensures service reliability and performance by maintaining, designing, and building key components in line with standards, ensuring security and effective monitoring. Collaborating with architects and teams, they clarify design constraints, workforce needs, and cost implications during discovery phases. They provide guidance on CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, enabling efficient and secure deployments for new users, ensuring automation and streamlined software delivery processes. They share common responsibilities in automation, reliability, and infrastructure management with other DevOps colleagues. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities. 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 . Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert. Watch this short video to hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital. Job description The Senior DevOps Engineer will contribute to and lead activities related to the migration of services to AWS platforms. This includes assessing existing legacy services, identifying modernisation opportunities, and re platforming workloads to cloud native architectures. They will design and implement secure, scalable, and cost efficient AWS solutions using modern engineering patterns such as containerisation, serverless computing, automated IaC deployments, and improved observability. They will work closely with product, delivery, architecture, and engineering teams to ensure smooth and low risk transitions from legacy systems, supporting the adoption of modern platforms and tooling while embedding best practice approaches for resilience, automation, and operational readiness across services. Tools and Technologies we use We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies. We have a large range in the Home Office including: Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power Platform Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, Neo4J, Amazon Athena DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Dynatrace AI: Python, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Person specification Working pattern This role is available on a full-time basis with the option of compressed hours working. This role is also suitable for part-time working hours, with a minimum requirement to work 3 days per week due to business requirements. Main responsibilities Supporting teams in mapping their stories to available platforms, ensuring effective and secure service deployment. Developing and maintaining hardened base containers, undertaking skilled platform build and support activities. Identifying gaps in best practices, advising teams on delivery risks and recommending improvements. Assisting engineers with service topology discovery, helping define quality assurance (QA) and deployment pipelines. Driving adoption of new tools and technologies, improving teams' integration approaches. Developing and enhance support processes, ensuring better user experience and operational efficiency. Essential skills You'll have a demonstrable passion for DevOps culture , with the following skills or strong experience in: Leading the design, implementation, and review of complex cloud solutions using AWS, ensuring alignment with best practices for architecture and scalability. (SWDN) Driving the implementation of automated testing, scanning, and code analysis tooling, and providing guidance on best practices to ensure continuous integration and code quality. (TEST) Identifying and enforcing the use of processes, procedures, and tooling for application monitoring, ongoing maintenance, and incident response to ensure high availability and performance. (ASUP) Devising and leading the implementation of data management processes and standards for cloud resources, covering areas like naming, tagging, metadata management, backups, and documentation for compliance and efficiency. (DATM) Designing, coding, testing, maintaining, and documenting scripts and infrastructure-as-code definitions to automate build, deployment, and provisioning activities, enhancing operational workflows. (PROG) Specifying and leading the implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring alignment with best practices to facilitate automated and efficient deployment cycles. (SINT)
