The article considers the civil service as a public law institution. The article is devoted to the civil service as a public legal institution, the modern concept is defined at the legislative level. Special attention was paid to the study of the state civil service as a type of professional activity. The civil service as a social institution is a connecting bridge between the state and society. The civil service, as an institution, includes legal norms and legal provisions governing various government and official relations. Proper organization and configuration of the civil service, as an institution of public law regulation, will make it possible to develop the rights and freedoms of citizens more quickly and efficiently, and this, in turn, determines the relevance of this study. For the effective functioning of the civil service, it is necessary to provide appropriate conditions for the high-quality performance of their official duties by civil servants and the formation of an ideology that influences the further development of public administration.

In the research work, the methods of scientific research of law were widely used. In the discussion part of the article, general scientific methods, in particular, dialectical methods, structural-functional and formal-thinking methods. This study is funded by the Science Committee of the Ministry of Science and higher education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (No. BR.Program 27195163).