Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - DWP - G7
Government Digital & Data -
Location
This role may be located in one of the following locations; Blackpool or Manchester.
Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.
About the job
Job summary
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.
We’re looking for outstanding Senior Azure DevOps Engineers, 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 are looking for a driven and passionate Senior DevOps Engineer who would like to be part of a team delivering real value to people that need help during the difficult times of their lives.
You will act as a DevOps leader, with line management responsibility of DevOps Engineers. This will consist of leading and supporting 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.
This role will be part of a DevOps team that maintain a bespoke Azure cloud platform, providing pre-production and production hosting for services and applications supporting three critical areas in DWP. Spanning both external and internal facing applications hosting key aspects of Retirement, Later Life and internal work management capabilities the team provide proactive monitoring and maintenance of production services, carry out product releases, perform incident fixes and investigation.
Job description
As a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer you will be using modern tooling to develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains where you will strive to put automation at the heart of everything you do.
You will craft and implement solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable, extensible, and maintainable within multiple cloud environments.
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.
Other responsibilities will include working across product-focussed teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implementing/updating solutions, provision environments, and assisting with operational issues.
Person specification
See selection process for further details.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Akhtar.ali1@dwp.gov.uk.
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Cloud Applications
