DevOps Engineer

Help shape the future of a vital national safeguarding service and make a meaningful impact for people across Scotland.

We are recruiting for two DevOps Engineer posts within the Digital Team at Disclosure Scotland. As part of the Scottish Government, Disclosure Scotland delivers criminal record checks and safeguarding services that help protect Scotland's children and vulnerable adults, supporting safer recruitment and volunteering across the country.

Joining a skilled and collaborative team, you will contribute to the ongoing development and continuous improvement of Disclosure Scotland's digital services following the successful implementation of the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020. This role offers an excellent opportunity to broaden your technical expertise, work with modern technologies and play a key part in ensuring our digital platforms continue to support the delivery of secure, reliable and efficient safeguarding services for Scotland.

• You manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and key
  performance indicators (KPIs).
• You support specific activities to improve development processes.
• You identify obvious deficiencies.
• You design solutions and services with security controls included, specifically
  engineered to mitigate security threats.
• You apply the latest technologies and best practices to improve the quality of the
  software development process, under guidance.
• You use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or
  scripts or software configuration of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• You establish design patterns and iterate them.
• You use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate.
• You identify, locate and fix service faults.
• You design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business
  and technical complexity, and meaningful impact.
• You work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns.
• You effectively document all work.
• You build and test simple interfaces between systems.
• You work on more complex integration as part of a wider team.

• Developing self and others – Level 3
• Changing and improving – Level 3
• Managing a quality service – Level 3
• Working together – Level 3

You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours here:

Technical Skills:

This role is aligned to DevOps Engineer in the Digital, Data and Technology Profession.

These skills will be tested during the Technical Assessment if you are successful at sift stage. They will be not be assessed at application stage. Please review the following to understand the skill expectations: Development operations (DevOps) engineer - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework

How to apply:

Apply online, providing a CV and Supporting Statement of no more than 1000 words which provides evidence of how you meet the Experience listed in the Success Profiles above. Be sure to provide specific examples of work that you’ve done that showcase your relevant experience.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be used to support your application, but all statements and examples provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, and presented as your own) applications will be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in recruitment.

Skilled Worker sponsorship is not available for this role. As a result, we are unable to appoint candidates who require Skilled Worker sponsorship now or in the future. Applicants must have an existing and ongoing right to work in the UK.

Candidates will have their applications assessed against all Experience criteria.

Candidates who are successful at sift stage will be invited to attend an Interview and Technical Assessment. The interview will further assess the Experience and Behaviours listed in the job advert and the Technical Assessment will evaluate the Technical Skills relevant to the role.

Candidates who pass the sift and are invited to the Interview and Technical Assessment stage will receive a Technical Assessment Candidate Pack, which will outline the skills to be assessed and the assessment methods to be used.

Following the application sift, there may be a telephone interview as part of the assessment process before the main interview.

Assessments are scheduled for w/c 28 September 2026 however this may be subject to change.

Apply before 23:59 on 6 September 2026. This post is open to internal candidates and Common Citizenship Organisations only (external candidates and staff from UK Other Government Departments are not eligible to apply for this vacancy).
Recruitment Principles:
As a government organisation, we adhere to the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles and we investigate any complaints received in relation to recruitment cases.

Disclosure Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government working on behalf of Scottish Ministers. You will be part of a trusted team delivering essential public protection services. Our mission is to safeguard people and support national priorities, including Children and Young People, Fair Work, Communities, Human Rights and the wider economy.

Our staff are part of the UK Civil Service, observing the Civil Service Code and working for Ministers and senior stakeholders to deliver vital public services which improve the lives of the people of Scotland.

We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment along with a wide range of employee benefits. Find out more about what we offer.

As part of the UK Civil Service, we uphold the Civil Service Nationality Rules.

Successful candidates must complete the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), before they can be appointed. BPSS is comprised of four main pre-employment checks – Identity, Right to work, Employment History and a Criminal Record check (unspent convictions).

You can find out more about BPSS on the UK Government website, and read about the Government Vetting Charter, or about all the different levels of security checks in our Candidate Guide.

Internal candidates may need to gain higher security clearance than they currently hold if successful in their application.

In addition to BPSS, this role requires Home Office Security Clearance checks (SC), the successful candidate will either hold SC already or be willing to go through the process of gaining this, You can find out more about SC clearance here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels#security-check-sc