Month: 2025-08 – Focused on strengthening dev environment access control to support faster, secure development cycles. Key feature delivered: RBAC Access Control Update for hmpps-manage-people-on-probation-dev namespace, enabling the development team to access the dev environment. Implementation linked to commit 208b0b8adff9cd7793ca9d8cb439107aef562b86 (PR #35683). Major bugs fixed: None reported this month. Overall impact: improved security governance while reducing time-to-test for new changes, enabling more reliable validation of features in the hmpps-manage-people-on-probation-dev environment. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Kubernetes RBAC configuration, namespace scoping, Git-based change management, collaboration between security and development teams, and change documentation for governance.

Monthly summary for 2025-01 focusing on the ministryofjustice/hmpps-probation-integration-services repo. The month centered on documentation governance and discoverability improvements. No major code bugs were reported this period; the primary deliverable was a structured reorganization of the services documentation with a new deprecated services section, complemented by cross-links to relevant documentation.

November 2024 monthly summary focused on delivering business value through secure onboarding, CI/CD stability, and comprehensive service documentation across two repos. Key platform changes include removal of the PES Client reference data endpoint in pre-production and production, with updated diagrams to reflect the change and preventing PES client access to the endpoint; and the introduction of a secure onboarding method using public-key cryptography to encrypt symmetric keys and credentials before transmission. CI/CD improvements were implemented to harden workflows by skipping repository-writes dependent jobs for Dependabot PRs and upgrading the tech docs publisher Ruby version from 3.1 to 3.2 to maintain compatibility and security. Documentation was added for the Appointment Reminders and Delius service, outlining business need, workflows, and interfaces for automated SMS reminders. Overall, these changes reduce security and operational risk, improve reliability, and enhance maintainability and onboarding for consumers and operators.