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Lead Application Operations Engineer

Social Security Scotland, Glasgow or Dundee, United Kingdom, hybrid. Permanent. Posted . Deadline 2026-11-03. Apply through the original listing

United Kingdom Visa Fit
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Recommended pathway: Skilled Worker, standard. Too little job or profile data to check the route.

Top facts

Offered salary
£62,111 to £77,439
Required salary
£52,300 standard general threshold £41,700, or the GOV.UK going rate for SOC 2139 (£52,300), whichever is higher. Checked 15 September 2026
Sponsor register
Listed: Social Security Scotland (Home Office register, file dated 15 October 2026)
Role evidence
Strong Direct role-level evidence: the vacancy offers sponsorship.

Eligibility gates

Legal compatibility (the first four) is kept separate from employer willingness (the last). A licence proves capability, not intent.

Approved sponsorPass

On the sponsor register as Social Security Scotland

Legal entity confirmed by JLocate. Social Security Scotland (Dundee) is A-rated for Skilled Worker on the register file dated 15 October 2026. A licence shows the organisation can sponsor, not that it will sponsor this role.

Found in jobRegister of licensed sponsors: workers Checked 15 September 2026
Eligible occupationProbable

Likely Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified (SOC 2139)

Inferred from the job title. The employer picks the code on the Certificate of Sponsorship, so ask them to confirm it.

InferredSkilled Worker visa: eligible occupations and codes Checked 15 September 2026
Required salaryPass

£62,111 meets the £52,300 threshold

Threshold basis: standard general threshold £41,700, or the GOV.UK going rate for SOC 2139 (£52,300), whichever is higher. Weekly hours are not stated, so a full-time role is assumed.

Found in jobSkilled Worker visa: your job and salary Checked 15 September 2026
Candidate provisionUnknown

New-entrant status unknown

Add your age, immigration status and route history to check the new-entrant rate. The standard threshold is used until then.

User enteredSkilled Worker visa: when you can be paid less Checked 15 September 2026
Employer willingnessStrong

Vacancy offers sponsorship

Direct role-level evidence. Get it confirmed in writing before you rely on it. Vacancy text: “Social Security Scotland is an approved sponsor under the UK Visa and Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route.”

Found in jobRegister of licensed sponsors: workers Checked 15 September 2026

Career match

Whether the job is worth wanting, which is a different question from whether the route works. Nothing here changes the Visa Fit result above.

A career match needs to know what you are looking for. Add a profile and this becomes a score out of 100 across role, level, location, pay and how recently the vacancy was posted.

What is missing

  • Occupation code, which the employer has not confirmed
  • Whether the new-entrant rate applies to you
  • Weekly hours

What would change the result

A profile lets the check apply the right threshold to this job.

Ask the recruiter

Polite, specific, and written so the answer maps straight onto a gate above.

  1. Could you confirm the weekly hours the advertised salary is based on?
  2. If the role were sponsored, which occupation code (SOC code) would it be sponsored under?
Email the recruiter
Evidence and assumptions
Employer entity
Social Security Scotland Found in job
Matched by your confirmation
Occupation family
DevOps, cloud or platform (SOC 2139) Inferred
GOV.UK lists DevOps engineers by name under 2139. Other cloud and platform titles are coded inconsistently, so confirm the code with the employer.
Annual salary
£62,111 to £77,439 Found in job
The lower figure is used for the check
Weekly hours
Not stated, full-time assumed Missing
Contract
Permanent Found in job
Route
Skilled Worker, United Kingdom Found in job
Snapshot 2026-09-15, checked 15 September 2026
Candidate provision
New-entrant status unknown Missing
Add your age, immigration status and route history to check the new-entrant rate. The standard threshold is used until then.

Rule sources

Terms used

Sponsor licence
Permission an employer holds from the Home Office to sponsor workers. It shows capability, not a promise for any particular role.
Occupation code
The SOC code the employer puts on the Certificate of Sponsorship. It decides whether the job is eligible and which going rate applies.
Going rate
The salary floor for that occupation code. The job must pay the general threshold or the going rate, whichever is higher.
New entrant
A lower salary rate, 70% of the going rate and at least £33,400, if you are under 26, on a Student visa at bachelor’s level or above or a Graduate visa now or in the last two years, or working towards a recognised qualification, registration or chartered status in the job. Limited to four years in total, Graduate visa time included.

Rule snapshot 2026-09-15. Simplified product logic, not the full Immigration Rules.

Vacancy text

A lead engineer in the agency's Digital Services branch, leading a team of in-house engineers and supplier analysts who support its Cúram case management system and the batch processing behind payments for 17 benefits. The post holder owns incident triage at every priority and root-cause problem management, manages security configuration and licences, handles complex changes, improves monitoring and resilience, and plans testing. Hybrid, with at least two office days a week in Glasgow or Dundee. The Civil Service Nationality Rules apply. Permanent, full time (35 hours), plus a £3,000 digital pay supplement.