Associate DevOps Engineer
DWP Digital -
This role would be suitable for Level 4 DevOps Apprentice graduates, a University Graduate with a Computer Science related Degree or someone with relevant experience. DWP Digital have 170 permanent DevOps Engineers across our functional areas and teams. They work to deliver products to both citizen and DWP colleagues.
You will join and be supported by DevOps Engineers and the development teams in DWP Digital.
We are looking for DevOps engineers, who would like to contribute to demanding and exciting UK Government digital services and be part of changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.
Our Engineers work within multi-functional agile delivery teams. If you enjoy problem-solving and collaborating with others and you would like the opportunity to deliver innovative software that carries real value for users in a multidisciplinary team then we would like you to join us.
Job description
As an Associate DevOps Engineer you will work on and continue to learn about, contribute to and support the design, development and maintenance of infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code, continuous integration and deployment that deliver DWP services.
You will learn about and understand the overall Software Development Lifecycle Process as part of a multifunctional Agile delivery team focused on one or more products.
You will learn and contribute to DevOps culture, promoting and support the transition development and operations as best practice.
You will learn and contribute to the wider Engineering and Architecture Practice that will help ensure the systems are fit for purpose. With a focus on stability, availability, and quality you will be accountable/responsible for the code and services your teams produce and administer.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand business requirements and how to turn them into code
- Understand and contribute to automated unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.
- Identify issues to ensure citizen-facing services are repeatable, scalable, resilient, and highly available.
- Identify issues that prevent delivery or continuation of Software engineering activities.
- Support work across several product teams to write code that is simple and flexible to build, configure and deploy.
- Understand and identify ways to optimise the current development process.
- Provide support with coaching and mentoring to Software and DevOps Engineer peers.
- Contribute to community discussions about better practice.
- Actively contribute towards a DevOps culture and automation best practices
- If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact sam.hackett@dwp.gov.uk.
