About this role
Salary: £117,000 - 130,000 per year
Requirements
- Active SC Security Clearance (mandatory)
- Hands-on experience administering GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Enterprise Cloud
- Experience providing day-to-day GitHub administration across multiple GitHub organisations
- Experience with GitHub Enterprise administration, access management, user access controls, onboarding, repositories, workflow automation, governance, and Technology Radar standards
- Experience configuring and maintaining GitHub organisation- and enterprise-level settings, policies, and permissions
- Experience supporting integrations with enterprise identity platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID and SSO
- Experience with GitHub REST and GraphQL APIs for administration and automation
- Scripting skills in PowerShell, Python, or Bash
- Advantageous: SCIM-based user provisioning, GitHub Enterprise security capabilities, Enterprise Managed Users, SAML SSO, audit logs, GitHub Advanced Security, rulesets, organisation policies, infrastructure as code, or Terraform
Responsibilities
- Provide administrative support for GitHub and help improve the scalability of our GitHub operating model
- Address the existing GitHub administration and onboarding backlog
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes
- Clear the current backlog and stabilise the administration process
- Recommend sustainable improvements to GitHub administration
- Support integrations with enterprise identity platforms and use GitHub APIs for administration and automation
Technologies
- Bash
- Cloud
- GitHub
- GraphQL
- Support
- PowerShell
- Python
- REST
- SAML
- Security
- DevOps
- Terraform
More
We are seeking a GitHub Administrator with automation experience for a large-scale Government project as part of a leading global IT transformation. This is a six-month contract based in Leeds, with hybrid working from home and occasional travel to our Leeds office, typically once or twice a month. The role is expected to start in October or November 2026 and pays £450–£500 per day, inside IR35.
last updated 43 week of 2026