Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Hybrid Cloud) - Department for Work and Pensions - G7

Location

This role may be located in one of the following locations; Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle.

Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.

Please note: for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View. It will then move to 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027.

About the job

Job summary

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join DWP Engineering as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer and to create innovative digital solutions that make a difference to the lives of our 22 million users. We’re driving the adoption of Public Cloud services in line with Government Digital Service (GDS) and DWP’s own strategic hosting architectural principles.

The strategy for our engineers is to implement a ‘Digital by Default’ approach. We will do this by providing an end-to-end ‘multi-cloud’ hosted service for our Product Development Units. We’ll be providing a securely connected hosting service which removes DWP’s reliance on traditional hosting solutions and contracts.

To ensure our success, we are standardising, simplifying and automating, together with developing processes, training and tools to accelerate our delivery.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will be capable of role modelling Infrastructure solutions which adhere to best practice, with a focus on operational stability, resilience, and availability.

This position will collaborate with Architects, Site Reliability Engineers, Delivery Managers, and Product Managers, who all support the implementation and operation of Cloud hosted products and services.

The role will sit within one of our Engineering Tooling Services Teams which comprise of Automation & Orchestration and Manage & Deploy My Code services.  This role will maintain and support project to exit Ansible Automation Platform and GitLab from the On Premise Hosting (OPH) estate.

Job description

• Support the design and implementation of Public Cloud infrastructure services/solutions to meet strategic plans and roadmaps.
• Responsible for operational management of Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services, with a focus on security, availability, resilience, and performance.
• Provide specialist service/solution technical support and assistance to junior staff and users.
• Development and implementation of service improvement plans to address identified issues for Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services.
• Responsible for management and resolution of Incidents for Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services.
• Working with Product Delivery Unit (PDU) teams to understand their current Ansible Automation Platform and GitLab instances.
• Develop, execute and support the migration path for PDU instances to the strategic platforms.
• Ensure minimal disruption to services by proactively identifying and resolving technical issues during and after migrations.
• Supporting with the upskilling and developing of end users.
• Identify, develop and implement automation solutions to reduce operational toil, improve system reliability, and enable teams to focus on higher value activities.

Person specification

See selection process for further details.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Richard.hanley@dwp.gov.uk.