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Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.\nLocation: West Brompton\nJob Summary\nCTP’s national digital capability network provides investigative services in Communications Data Exploitation, Open-Source Exploitation, Digital Media Exploitation, Lawful Intercept and Digital Biometrics. This role is based within the Technical Innovation and Development team (TIDE) within the National Digital Exploitation Service (NDES) (hosted by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and located within CTP London Command ).\nCounter Terrorism Policing (CTP) relies on a diverse range of technologies to support critical national security operations. Working in TIDE, you will play a key role in efficiently and responsively making world-leading digital tools and capabilities available to CTP's operational teams. You will enable the use of digital technologies to deny terrorists, and other criminals investigated by our network, their ability to operate.\nBand M As a Senior Developer or Senior DevSecOps Engineer in TIDE you will manage a team of developers to design, build, secure and/or maintain new capabilities in support of CTP's digital collection and exploitation activity. You will advance capability development and cloud delivery via CTP’s digital capability including working across on-premises infrastructure as well as cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure. You will enable efficient deployment of both in-house and commercial applications and support the migration of on-premises solutions to cloud enabled environments. Your team will be responsible for enabling efficient and safe access to digital capability tooling, including the continuous improvement of the digital capability delivery platform, development and test environments.\nThis role is aligned to the Senior DevOps Engineer set out within the Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (DDAT).\nAt this role level, you will:\ntransform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery \nprovide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues \nensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available \nhave deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems \n work on a variety of platforms and tools so being a lifelong learner with the ability to quickly learn technical skills are key to your success. \nThe ideal candidate will have:\nA solid background in software engineering or platform infrastructure support. \nHave a proven track record in creating and maintaining DevOps or similar pipelines. \nThe Senior DevOps Engineer will also help plan projects and be involved in project management decisions as part of an agile service delivery team. The DevOps team is a key component of CTPs Digital strategy which operational activities will depend upon.\nKey Tasks\nAs a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will:\nTake a leading role in the development and operation of the DevOps pipeline: \nTesting and deploying product updates. \nIdentifying and resolving issues. \nImplementing integrations. \nImproving automation and monitoring. \nBeing the technical product owner for some parts of the pipeline. \nProvide project oversight to ensure standards are met. \nWork with developers and engineers to ensure that software development follows established processes and works as intended. \nEnsure personal and team workload is effectively managed, prioritised and issues are escalated to line management as necessary. \nEnsure adherence to required polices, standards, controls and best practice. \nCreate, maintain and review technical documentation to ensure all services are maintained and knowledge is shared. \nProactively monitor DevOps environments to help prevent issues arising. \nProactively drive continuous improvement across the DevOps pipeline. \nAssist in mentoring and developing the team. \nDeputise for the Lead DevOps Engineer as required. \nThis role does not attract Shift Disturbance Allowance. If you are currently in a shift-working role, SDA should cease upon appointment to this job.\nVetting\nThis post requires access to the most sensitive intelligence material on a daily basis. Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) Developed Vetting (DV) level before taking up the post. This post requires British nationality (some dual nationals may be ineligible) and an Enhanced Security Check (eSC)/Developed Vetting (DV)] clearance. \nAs the post holder will have access to very sensitive information, there are limitations on travelling to a small number of countries and we will undertake additional security checks as part of the recruitment process. Applications from candidates with close connections to certain countries may take considerably longer to process, or in some cases result in a withdrawal of an offer of employment. Further details will be provided at the conditional offer stage.\nHow to apply\nTo begin your career at the Met, please click the \"apply button “. The application process requires a comprehensive CV (2 sides of A40, a Personal Statement (2 sides of A4), and an online application form. In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV, and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and Personal Statement.\nCompleted applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 16th October 2026.\nOnce received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager.\nFollowing application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview.\nwww.metpolicecareers.co.uk\n\nEssential For The Role\n\n>\nKey Skills\nAvailability and capacity management\nensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures \nidentify capacity issues, and stipulate and instigate the required changes \ninitiate remedial action \nDevelopment process optimisation\nIdentify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions. \nInformation Security\nUnderstand information security. \nDesign solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats as a core feature. \nModern standards approach\nCompetently apply a modern standards approach and guide others to do so. \nProgramming and build (software engineering)\nCollaborates with others when necessary to review specifications \nUses these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools. \nPrototyping\nApproach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. \nEstablish design patterns and iterate them. \nUse a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate. \nService support\nDemonstrate a breadth of understanding of service support. \nSystems design\nDesign systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. \nSelect appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively. \nReview the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. \nSystems integration\nDefine the integration build. \nCo-ordinate build activities across systems. \nUnderstand how to undertake and support integration testing activities. \nUser focus\nCollaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. \nExplain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. \nChampion user research to focus on all users. \nPrioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. \nOffer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use. \nExperience\nThe role requires a good level of experience of DevOps. The role holder must have:\nThe role holder must have or be eligible for DV (STRAP) vetting clearance \nStrong understanding and experience of Tier 1 cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure and creatively solving business problems in cloud environments. \nUnderstanding and experience of widely used DevOps tooling, including Git, Jira and Confluence software (or similar) \nUnderstanding and experience of infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, Ansible or similar. \nUnderstanding and experience of how testing works within a CI/CD pipeline, including automated testing \nExperience of Kubernetes and containerisation \nExperience of Linux operating systems, including shell script. \nExperience of working with teams utilising at least 3 of the below: \nKubernetes and containerisation tooling (e.g. SUSE Rancher, RKE2, EKS, AKS, Yaml, Helm, Docker) \n.NET (C#, ASP.NET, .NET CORE) \nJavaScript (REACT, Bootstrap Frameworks, node.js) \nDatabases (SQL) \nNoSQL technologies e.g. Elasticsearch \nGitOps \nDesirables\nExperience of Agile ways of working (SAFE Agile). \nAwareness of ICT security best practice. \nExcellent written and clear technical documentation writing skills. \nOrganisational skills, the ability to pay attention to detail. \nHighly motivated and determined to contribute to the mission. Takes initiative and ownership for resolving problems, has a strong work ethic and manages the demands of the role effectively. \nAbility to keep up to date with the latest software development and testing technologies/methodologies. 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