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DevOps Engineer - HM Land Registry - HEO

Salary: £42,500 - £45,700 Pay supplement scheme - depending on level of assessed capability

Location: Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS

Published on 3 February 2026. Deadline 22 February 2026. Full-time (Permanent).

Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS

The transformation programme at HM Land Registry (HMLR) aims to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data. We are looking for two DevOps Engineers to join our Transformation & Technology team to help us achieve this.

The DevOps function supports the delivery of platform and infrastructure for our new microservice applications as part of the digital transformation of our internal and external services. Engineers are responsible for configuration, administration and support of the infrastructure using a DevOps methodology across multiple cloud infrastructures, ensuring they are secure, performant, and supportable while following an agile approach to incremental delivery.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will provide technical engineering capability for the Web Operations team, supporting production systems and working with Agile development teams to deliver new services in a highly available and supportable configuration using DevOps processes and tooling. You will engage with other DevOps Engineers and Senior DevOps Engineers, as well as coach and support Junior DevOps Engineers. The role holder will take forward technical consolidation and/or improvement activities, providing guidance and leadership to technicians within the IT Operations Practice and wider, while also working across DDaT to support and deliver solutions in line with the Technology and Business Strategies.

A minimum of 32 hours per week is essential for these roles. Roles may require travel, including overnight stays. Occasional planned out-of-hours work to handle IT changes and maintenance, and participation in an on-call rota, may be required. HMLR expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office. For more information about the role, please see the attached candidate pack.

• Support production systems and work with Agile development teams to deliver new services in a highly available and supportable configuration using DevOps processes and tooling.
• Engage with other DevOps Engineers and Senior DevOps Engineers; coach and support Junior DevOps Engineers.
• Contribute to technical consolidation and improvement activities and provide guidance to technicians within the IT Operations Practice and wider teams.
• Collaborate across DDaT to deliver solutions aligned with Technology and Business Strategies.

Location: Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS. Travel and overnight stays may be required.

To meet the requirements of this role, you will hold a qualification in Information Technology or a related area (Degree Level or equivalent) and/or experience in an IT field.

You will have experience supporting Linux operating systems, containers and containerised workloads (e.g., orchestration services such as OpenShift and Kubernetes). You will be experienced with at least one programming language such as Ruby, Java, Python, JavaScript or Go.

You will have knowledge and experience of DevOps practices including Continuous Integration. You will use version control (Git and GitLab CI) and configuration-as-code across cloud and on-premise environments using Terraform and other version control systems. You will be accustomed to working in an agile environment building, deploying, supporting, and operating cloud applications (in particular AWS).