Job title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Salary: £75-81k
Grade: Band 3

Contract type: TfL Reference: 3442

Contract details: Permanent Location: Pier Walk, North Greenwich

Application closing date: 17/6/26 at 23:59

External - All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

This role is full, conventional, end-to-end DevOps; Development AND Operations

We aspire to fulfil the full DevOps cycle: Deploy > Operate > Monitor > Plan > Code > Build > Test > Release > Deploy

This role is not Development OF Operations; not limited to Azure DevOps, CI/CD and infrastructure automation

Operations and Support for a wide array of payments-based systems both on-prem and Azure. Some of which are responsible for collecting half of TfL's entire annual budget, over GBP 5 Billion a year!

Some C#/SQL Development experience is essential.

Production incident management experience is essential.

The Senior DevOps Engineer delivers and integrates software to form a complete DevOps tool chain and is responsible for planning and designing large groups of stories, developing an effective DevOps tool chain to enable product delivery, provides coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues and 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, own and be responsible for the overall delivery of work at any scale, a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for and leading the onboarding of specific systems.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Benefits

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.

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