Senior Platform Developer
Posted 1 day 15 hours ago by Registers of Scotland
Permanent
Not Specified
Other
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Job Description
Senior Platform Developer
Put your career on the map
Total Remuneration: £57,879 to £68,146 add salary range including relevant supplement
Pay Supplement:The base salary for this role is £46,677-£54,957.This job qualifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annual Pay supplement of 24% which is included in the total remuneration above.
Pension: 28.97% of base salary (RoS contribution)
Annual Leave: 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Duration: Permanent
Working Pattern: 35 hours per week. We are a flexible employer and will consider a variety of working patterns.
Location: We offer a flexible hybrid work environment, allowing for remote work within the UK and occasional onsite collaboration at our Meadowbank House office in Edinburgh or St. Vincent Plaza in Glasgow. While remote work provides the freedom to work from home, certain projects and team activities may require more frequent onsite presence to foster creativity and collaboration. This approach ensures a balanced work-life integration while benefiting from in-person interactions on exciting projects.
Grade: Senior Executive Officer
Closing date: 10 July at 23:59pm
Number of vacancies: 2
Registers of Scotland (RoS)
Join an award-winning organisation recognised for its technology and innovation. Registers of Scotland is a world-leading pioneer in land and property registration. Our full-stack teams design, architect, and build all our registration products in-house. We work to create digital solutions for the people of Scotland. You will get an opportunity to nurture your creativity and develop with us through access to the latest data, software engineering and product delivery techniques.
This job is for you if you want
Work with purpose: working for the people of Scotland to set the bar for land and property registration worldwide.
Flexible and hybrid working: depending on the role and team requirements, work when and where it's best for you and your stakeholders.
Benefits: enjoy pay progression, pension contributions of up to 28.97%, up to a year's parental leave, and 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Investment in professional development: we invest in all our people so that they have the right skills to be productive and confident in their job.
Diversity and Inclusion: We are an 'Investor in People' and a 'Disability Confident' employer. We are inclusive, stronger together, and committed to putting our people first.
Positive work culture: RoS is an agile, digital organisation using leading-edge technology.Colleagues understand their role in achieving our strategy and have the autonomy to deliver.
To learn more about RoS and what we offer visit our careers pages or watch this short video.
Hear from our colleagues about their experience of working within our Digital, Data and Technology teams on our website.
Our Tech stack
Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK, Terraform, Ansible
CI/CD Tooling: GitLab CI, GitLab Runners, Jenkins, AWS (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeArtifact)
Secrets Management: AWS Secrets manager, secrets server
Cloud & Containers: IAM, Lambda, EC2, ASGs/Launch Templates, AWS WAF, CloudFront, API GW, AWS Organizations, S3, ECS, EKS, Route 53, ELBs, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker
Languages: TypeScript, Python
Security & Scanning: AWS Guardrails, Checkov, Prisma Cloud, OSV Scanner, SonarQube, Renovate
Observability & Logging: CloudWatch, OpenSearch
Operating System Management: RedHat Satellite, AMI lifecycle management, Ubuntu Landscape
Testing Tools: Pytest, Jest, Cypress
APIs/Microservices: RESTful APIs, API Gateway, containerised services
Version Control: GitLab
The Role
Join our innovative tech team as a Senior Platform Developer and help shape the future of RoS! We're looking for a passionate and experienced developer to support platform capability that enables agile software delivery. You'll have the opportunity to work with a talented, collaborative team where you will work on cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies and methodologies and have clear pathways for career progression and opportunities to take on leadership roles. Please note internally, this role is referred to as Senior DevOps Engineer.
On a typical day you will
Essential Criteria - Skills and Attributes for Success
Experience/Technical:
We will assess you against the following Experience and Technical skills during the application and assessment process:
At assessment, you will be scored against all the Behaviours outlined below:
To apply, click on 'Apply now' and complete the online application form.
You will need to submit:
If successful at application stage, you will be invited to an in-person interview which will include the following:
For further information on success profiles, visit our Success Profiles
Recruitment timeline
Closing date: 10 July
Online test sent: 11 July
Online test deadline: 13 July
Application sift: w/c 14 July
Invites to assessment: w/c 21 July
. click apply for full job details
Put your career on the map
Total Remuneration: £57,879 to £68,146 add salary range including relevant supplement
Pay Supplement:The base salary for this role is £46,677-£54,957.This job qualifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annual Pay supplement of 24% which is included in the total remuneration above.
Pension: 28.97% of base salary (RoS contribution)
Annual Leave: 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Duration: Permanent
Working Pattern: 35 hours per week. We are a flexible employer and will consider a variety of working patterns.
Location: We offer a flexible hybrid work environment, allowing for remote work within the UK and occasional onsite collaboration at our Meadowbank House office in Edinburgh or St. Vincent Plaza in Glasgow. While remote work provides the freedom to work from home, certain projects and team activities may require more frequent onsite presence to foster creativity and collaboration. This approach ensures a balanced work-life integration while benefiting from in-person interactions on exciting projects.
Grade: Senior Executive Officer
Closing date: 10 July at 23:59pm
Number of vacancies: 2
Registers of Scotland (RoS)
Join an award-winning organisation recognised for its technology and innovation. Registers of Scotland is a world-leading pioneer in land and property registration. Our full-stack teams design, architect, and build all our registration products in-house. We work to create digital solutions for the people of Scotland. You will get an opportunity to nurture your creativity and develop with us through access to the latest data, software engineering and product delivery techniques.
This job is for you if you want
Work with purpose: working for the people of Scotland to set the bar for land and property registration worldwide.
Flexible and hybrid working: depending on the role and team requirements, work when and where it's best for you and your stakeholders.
Benefits: enjoy pay progression, pension contributions of up to 28.97%, up to a year's parental leave, and 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Investment in professional development: we invest in all our people so that they have the right skills to be productive and confident in their job.
Diversity and Inclusion: We are an 'Investor in People' and a 'Disability Confident' employer. We are inclusive, stronger together, and committed to putting our people first.
Positive work culture: RoS is an agile, digital organisation using leading-edge technology.Colleagues understand their role in achieving our strategy and have the autonomy to deliver.
To learn more about RoS and what we offer visit our careers pages or watch this short video.
Hear from our colleagues about their experience of working within our Digital, Data and Technology teams on our website.
Our Tech stack
Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK, Terraform, Ansible
CI/CD Tooling: GitLab CI, GitLab Runners, Jenkins, AWS (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeArtifact)
Secrets Management: AWS Secrets manager, secrets server
Cloud & Containers: IAM, Lambda, EC2, ASGs/Launch Templates, AWS WAF, CloudFront, API GW, AWS Organizations, S3, ECS, EKS, Route 53, ELBs, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker
Languages: TypeScript, Python
Security & Scanning: AWS Guardrails, Checkov, Prisma Cloud, OSV Scanner, SonarQube, Renovate
Observability & Logging: CloudWatch, OpenSearch
Operating System Management: RedHat Satellite, AMI lifecycle management, Ubuntu Landscape
Testing Tools: Pytest, Jest, Cypress
APIs/Microservices: RESTful APIs, API Gateway, containerised services
Version Control: GitLab
The Role
Join our innovative tech team as a Senior Platform Developer and help shape the future of RoS! We're looking for a passionate and experienced developer to support platform capability that enables agile software delivery. You'll have the opportunity to work with a talented, collaborative team where you will work on cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies and methodologies and have clear pathways for career progression and opportunities to take on leadership roles. Please note internally, this role is referred to as Senior DevOps Engineer.
On a typical day you will
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-quality software and platform systems
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines, observability, security automation, automated testing, and engineering standards
- Lead feature development from concept to production with focus on quality and performance
- Troubleshoot issues, ensuring resilience, reliability, and minimal user disruption
- Contribute to architectural and design decisions, and participate in strategic platform planning
- Apply product thinking to platform features with user feedback and adoption metrics
- Lead safe release practices including use of feature flags and progressive delivery
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies and DevOps tooling
- Support DR planning and ensure platform services meet RTO/RPO requirements
- Ensure systems are properly configured, all infrastructure components are accurately tracked, and new or updated services are smoothly transitioned into production
- Maintain developer onboarding resources and platform documentation for self-service
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance developer experience and reduce cognitive load
- Promote accessibility and inclusive design in platform interfaces
- Contribute to engineering communities of practice and departmental shared initiatives
- Mentor junior developers and promote knowledge sharing through pairing, mobbing, and code reviews
Essential Criteria - Skills and Attributes for Success
Experience/Technical:
We will assess you against the following Experience and Technical skills during the application and assessment process:
- Extensive experience of experience in software or platform engineering roles
- Experience running secure, scalable cloud-native or containerised platforms
- Solid understanding of DevOps practices, agile delivery, and infrastructure automation
- Track record of delivering platform improvements that increase speed, reduce risk, and support scaling
- Led infrastructure or platform projects with clear, measurable outcomes
- Built reusable services and tools to support delivery teams
- Developed self-service capabilities for developers using APIs and automation
- Comfortable working in agile, cross-functional teams
- Works well with others and communicates clearly when solving problems
- Regularly contributes to code reviews and technical discussions
- Helps others build skills through mentoring and knowledge sharing
- Able to adapt to changing tools, technologies, and environments
- Writes clean, maintainable infrastructure code and automation script
At assessment, you will be scored against all the Behaviours outlined below:
- Leadership
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
To apply, click on 'Apply now' and complete the online application form.
You will need to submit:
- A CV outlining your career history and how you meet the technical/experience criteria (max 4 pages)
- Provide answers to the technical/experience question
- After the deadline for applications, all applicants will be sent a short on-line test via the platform Hackerrank, which will assess your technical proficiency. You will have 72 hours in which to complete this.
- If we receive a high volume of applications, we may complete an initial sift on the experience/ technical criteria.
- We reserve the right to invite candidates to participate in a telephone interview prior to being further assessed.
- Applications that are not accompanied by CVs or responses exceeding 500 words per experience question will not be considered.
- Applicants who do not complete the online assessment will not be considered.
- We would strongly recommend that your statement is written in the STAR format (Situation, Task, Action & Result) and preparing your answers using software such as MS Word, and then uploading the file.
- We strongly advise you review our policy on responsible use of AI in the application process. RoS may check answers with an AI detection tool and will contact you for a pre-screening call to verify your responses.
- Applications and appointments are subject to a strict merit-based assessment process, in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles.
If successful at application stage, you will be invited to an in-person interview which will include the following:
- An interview consisting of Behaviour, Technical and Experience questions.
- Further technical assessment
For further information on success profiles, visit our Success Profiles
Recruitment timeline
Closing date: 10 July
Online test sent: 11 July
Online test deadline: 13 July
Application sift: w/c 14 July
Invites to assessment: w/c 21 July
. click apply for full job details