Senior DevOps Engineer - DWP - G7
Government Digital & Data -
Location
These role may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne or Sheffield. Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.
About the job
Job summary
Are you an experienced DevOps Engineer with a passion for automation excellence?
Would you love the opportunity to promote technical evolution within the organisation across multiple teams?
Ready to deliver real value to people during the difficult times of their lives?
We're looking for outstanding Senior DevOps Engineers who want to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. The products we build are changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.
You'll act as a DevOps leader with line management responsibility, leading existing DevOps Engineers while increasing capability, standards, and practices across the organisation. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will contribute to our community ensuring that DWP and our DevOps practices evolve in line with technology advances.
You'll be working on an exciting tech stack including AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Kong, Kafka, GitLab CI/CD, Python, and many more cutting-edge technologies across our services.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. This role represents a unique opportunity to be part of teams delivering innovative technology to help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.
Job description
We are looking to recruit a number of DevOps Engineers across DWP Digital including our Technology, Data and Analytics, Core Digital, Health and Disability and Digital Modernisation Services.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be using modern tooling to develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains where you will strive to support our ambition to use code for automation at the heart of everything we do. You will craft and implement solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable, extensible, and maintainable within cloud environments, while making sure that they are efficient and cost optimised.
Working across the organisation, you will be pushing a mindset change to foster engineering ownership and the importance of the integrity and maintenance of the services we deliver. You'll be part of multi-functional agile delivery teams, collaborating with researchers, testers, architects, analysts and designers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Recruit, lead and mentor DevOps Engineers as part of your line management responsibilities.
- Work across product-focussed teams to gather requirements and evaluate tools.
- Implement and update solutions while provisioning environments.
- Assist with operational issues and promote best practices.
- Shape and deliver automated solutions that enable consistent quality services.
- Collaborate actively with colleagues and value multidisciplinary teams over hierarchy.
You'll be part of a supportive Engineering community of practice, with hundreds of engineering experts from across the UK united by passion and purpose. We'll give you the tools and time to build your capability, with coaching, mentoring, qualifications and formal learning opportunities.
You'll share a brilliant environment with colleagues from across DWP and wider government, making it the perfect place to collaborate and build networks. What really excites us is problem-solving, and we have a unique opportunity to deliver technology that makes a real difference to millions of people's lives.
Please note: As part of the role, you may be required to travel regularly to the other digital hubs. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful.
Person specification
When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
- Lead criterion – Significant demonstrable knowledge of writing and maintaining Infrastructure, and Configuration as Code for cost effective and sustainable applications.
- Extensive experience and proven track record of developing and supporting containerised applications using cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.
- Detailed working knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Proven demonstrable experience of using Unix/Linux in a support and/or development environment including scripting languages.
- Demonstrable experience of working in a DevOps environment – Continuous Integration & Deployment, Delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience.
- Experience of recruiting, supporting, guiding, and developing Engineers across multidisciplinary teams in an agile environment.
An initial sift may be conducted using the lead criteria stated above. Candidates 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.
