OPX Senior Developer

Salary:

£43,750.00 - £51,503.00 GBP Annual

Pension:

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%. Please refer to the Civil Service Pensions website for more information.

Type:

Full time

Fixed Term End:

19-10-2026

**Please note: The advert will close at 11:59PM the night before the listed closing date.**

SLC offer a blended working model which will typically be 2 days in the office and 3 days from home. 

Is it time you unlocked your potential?

Student Loans Company is a non-profit making Government-owned organisation to provide loans and grants to students in universities and colleges in the UK.  Since 1989, we have enabled our customers to invest in their futures by delivering secure, accurate and efficient assessment, payment and repayment services.

Our Values

Culture is at the heart of everything we do at SLC and we are guided by our five values which help make SLC a great place to work: 

• Honesty: We act with integrity and transparency, sharing information openly and addressing challenges with courage.
• Empowerment: We enable people to take initiative, make impactful decisions, and continuously learn and grow.
• Accountability: We deliver on commitments, own our successes and mistakes, and strive for quality outcomes.
• Respect: We value diverse perspectives, actively listen, and create an inclusive environment where everyone belongs.
• Trust: We collaborate across teams, build dependable relationships, and work as one to deliver for our customers.
• Honesty: We act with integrity and transparency, sharing information openly and addressing challenges with courage.
• Empowerment: We enable people to take initiative, make impactful decisions, and continuously learn and grow.
• Accountability: We deliver on commitments, own our successes and mistakes, and strive for quality outcomes.
• Respect: We value diverse perspectives, actively listen, and create an inclusive environment where everyone belongs.

These values are more than words—they guide our decisions, shape our collaborations, and strengthen our impact on the students we serve.

About The Role

SLC has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Developer to join our CMS OPX platform team on a fixed-term basis. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the technical resolution of complex incidents and problems affecting our content platforms and the surrounding operational excellence (OPX) tooling. This includes ensuring high availability and smooth deployments across environments.

You’ll collaborate closely with colleagues across Product, Engineering, Operations, and InfoSec to maintain and enhance the stability, security, and functionality of our critical web properties.

This role combines technical expertise in troubleshooting and automation with a focus on clear communication and continuous improvement. The role holder will contribute to the resilience and reliability of our digital infrastructure, helping to ensure consistent service delivery and ongoing platform optimisation.

What You Bring:

• Proven experience with the CMS OPX platform and its operational tooling
• Expertise in L3 troubleshooting across web and CMS stacks, including application, API, database, operating system, network, and CDN layers
• Solid understanding of database fundamentals such as SQL performance, connectivity, and connection pooling, along with experience in queueing and event-driven systems
• Practical knowledge of observability tools and techniques — including logs, metrics, traces, distributed tracing, and alert design
• Familiarity with ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change) and how they align with agile and SRE methodologies
• Composed and methodical approach to incident management, with the ability to lead calls and make informed decisions
• Practical experience supporting the CMS OPX platform and related applications
• A proven ability to reduce Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) and drive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) toward effective preventive solutions
• Hands-on expertise with CI/CD pipelines and proficiency in one or more scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python

You can expect more from a career with SLC. We support colleagues to unlock their potential through our Career Pathways development programme and offer an excellent benefit and rewards package that includes:

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays
• Option to buy/sell annual leave
• Flexi-time and enhanced flexible working options available
• Option to join the Civil Service pension scheme
• Life insurance cover for 4 x annual salary
• Enhanced company sick pay and family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption
• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, access to the Civil Service Sports and Leisure Club for discounted gym memberships, and an optional dental insurance scheme
• To find out what’s it’s like to work at Student Loans Company click here SLC Careers

The Legal Bits

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some background checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include employment history, criminal record check, credit reference check and fraud check.

SLC are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are inclusive for all candidates and will make reasonable adjustments for those who consider themselves to have a disability or long-term condition in line with the Equality Act 2010. Our application process provides candidates with the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments but if you would like to discuss this in more detail, please email ask_recruitment@slc.co.uk.