Salary: £35,000 - 40,000 per year Requirements:

Experience in an IT, MIS, DevOps or technical systems role
Experience with Azure DevOps and Microsoft-based systems
Strong communication, organisation and problem-solving skills
Relevant qualification in IT, Computing or Business Administration (desirable)
Experience with Jira (desirable)
Satisfactory vetting, including a right to work check and, where relevant, an enhanced DBS, PVG (Scotland) or EWC (Wales) check

Responsibilities:

Support key applications, databases, MIS systems and integrations
Provide technical support for applications and systems, including incident handling, upgrades, patching and fault resolution
Build, maintain and optimise databases using tools such as SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL
Support IT projects, including development work on data systems
Keep systems, code, configurations and technical processes properly documented

Technologies:

Azure
DevOps
Support
JIRA
MySQL
PostgreSQL
SQL
Cloud

More:

This is an ASAP-start contract role based in North London with a further education provider. Youll join its IT team and help deliver, develop and improve DevOps services, systems and IT projects, supporting reliable systems for staff and students across teaching, learning and day-to-day operations. Dovetail and Slate is a specialist education recruitment company and welcomes CVs from people interested in exploring other opportunities. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, are an equal opportunities employer, and process applicant data for recruitment purposes in line with our Privacy Policy.

last updated 45 week of 2026

DevOps Engineer

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