Lead DevOps Engineer - DWP - G6
Government Digital & Data -
Are you an experienced DevOps Engineer with a passion for automation excellence?
If so, come join us as a Lead DevOps Engineer.
Payments are core to DWP. We are the biggest payer in the UK, serving 22m citizens which is 34% of the total UK population and make circa £277bn in payments annually generating 1/3 of the UK’s BACS traffic.
We are delivering an ambitious transformation programme to reimagine and make best use of emerging future technologies in the banking industry to continue to ensure that people who get paid by DWP receive the right amount of money, at the right time into the right bank account. This role will sit within the AME Payments Platform Team.
We’re looking for an outstanding Lead DevOps Engineer, who want to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. The products we build are the changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.
We’re looking for a driven and passionate Lead DevOps Engineer who would like to be part of teams delivering real value to people that need help during the difficult times of their lives.
The candidate will act as a DevOps leader, building a DevOps culture along with line management responsibility of Senior DevOps Engineers. You will lead existing DevOps Engineers while increasing capability, standards and practices across the organisation.
As a Lead DevOps Engineer you will contribute to our community ensuring that DWP and our DevOps practices evolve in line with technology advances.
Job description
As Lead DevOps Engineer, you will:
- Work across multiple teams as an engineering specialist defining and refining organisation engineering standards.
- Push a mindset and culture change within the organisation to foster engineering ownership of infrastructure development alongside software engineering activities.
- Create capability, through definition of training opportunities, pastoral care and practice alignment.
- Be responsible for ensuring our digital services are adhering to standards and best practice.
- Be responsible for recruitment within the DevOps community and working with senior leaders in payments to ensure strategically the teams are setup to succeed.
- Responsible for mentoring and support of engineers and trainee DevOps engineers.
Person specification
When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
- (Lead Criteria) Significant experience of the full life cycle of a cloud-based platforms and applications from designing, through deployment to supporting and patching in particular AWS.
- Experience of leading and supporting Engineers in multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment and sharing knowledge and good practice with the wider organisation.
- Significant experience of version control systems as well as building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines e.g. git with GitLab CI or Jenkins.
- Significant experience of Infrastructure-as-code and configuration of code for one or more cloud providers.
- Experience of containerisation and container orchestration.
- Experience of multiple scripting and/or programming languages (e.g. Bash, Python).
Please note- an initial sift may be conducted using the lead criteria listed. Those who pass the initial sift will progress to a full sift.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact richard.hanley@dwp.gov.uk.
