DWP. Digital with Purpose.
Are you an DevOps Engineer with a passion for automation excellence?
Can you contribute to a culture of DevOps and support our continued transition to DevOps as a best practice?
Want to promote technical evolution across multiple teams in massive organisation with real social impact?
We're looking for outstanding Senior DevOps Engineers, who want to help build, maintain and improve digital services for the UK Government.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
You'll join DWP Digital community that is driving a once-in-a-generation transformation of public services, using fresh ideas and leading-edge technologies to create innovative, scalable and user-centric digital solutions.
The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
Delivery. Work. Projects.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer you'll use 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.
We will work across teams to push a mindset change for engineering ownership, and the importance of the integrity and maintenance of the services we deliver.
You will have responsibility for gathering requirements, evaluating tools, implementing/updating solutions, provision environments, and assisting with operational issues.
We have an engaged and supportive community of DevOps Engineers. You'll coach and lead our engineers, while helping to increase capability, standards and practices across the organisation.
You'll also have access to, and time for, whatever learning and support you want and need to keep your skills sharp and grow your career.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
- Experience of using Unix/Linux in a support and/or development environment including scripting languages
- Demonstrable experience of developing and supporting cloud-based applications (AWS and/or Azure)
- Demonstrable experience of working in a DevOps environment - Continuous Integration & Deployment, Delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience
- Demonstrable knowledge of writing and maintaining Infrastructure, and Configuration as Code
- Knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience of supporting, guiding and developing Engineers across multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment.
Details. Wages. Perks.
You will join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you.
We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work and collaborate flexibly.
We work a hybrid model with some time at home and some time in a hub with the team.
We offer pay of up to £78,517.
You will be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth up to £17,000 per year
You will get a generous leave package starting at 26 days, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
- Family-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Working in an award-winning environment and culture
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
Process.
Stage 1: Application
Stage 2: Interview
We know how valuable your time is. We have a clear and succinct hiring process with only TWO STAGES.
Click apply now and get started with the next step in your career at DWP Digital.