Operations Engineering

Introduction

The Operations Engineering team focuses on purchasing, constructing, and maintaining a variety of tools that aid in the development and management of software on a large scale.

Although our primary platform for development and hosting is the Cloud Platform, the tools and standards we develop will be accessible and applicable across a variety of platforms and hosting environments throughout the organisation.

Please note that there are certain services that we do not offer. For details on these services, kindly refer to this documentation.

Audience

This guide is designed for developers, power users, and all team members at the Ministry of Justice, offering insight into the range of services provided by Operations Engineering.

Contents

Quick Links

• How to contact Operations Engineering
• Not Supported by Operations Engineering
• Operations Engineering Break Glass Process For Emergency Access

Services We Support

GitHub

• Management
• Storing source code
• Using Git
• Community Slack Channel
• Tips on Managing Notifications
• Licensing software or code
• Advice: Store Code Privately
• Advice: Store Code Publicly

Monitoring and Alerting

• Sentry.io
• Pagerduty
• Pingdom

DNS and Domain Management

• DNS Managment
• How to get, register or manage a domain name
• Domain Naming Standard
• SSL Certificate Management

CI/CD

• Dockerhub
• CircleCI
• Renovate

Shared Password Management

• 1Password

Additional Resources

• Auth0 Account

This page was last reviewed on 20 May 2026. It needs to be reviewed again on 20 November 2026 by the page owner #operations-engineering-alerts .