Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Pay up to £89,99, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer for DWP Mobile Services, you will be a member of a highly motivated team that constantly drives for excellence, delivering world class mobile devices and services for DWP colleagues.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We are looking for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.
We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.
The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
- Expert with the design and implementation of enterprise mobility management software (preferably Workspace One and Intune) to manage mobile devices (running iOS and Android OS) for large and complex organisations.
- Significant depth and breadth of technical knowledge and experience across infrastructure services, including strong experience with public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container, and networking design patterns, tools and best practice (e.g. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform), along with a strong understanding of information security, infrastructure as a code and continuous integration/continuous deployment.
- Technical authoring skills, particularly for the production of technical design and specification documents.
- Significant demonstrable experience of service management framework like ITIL in a large and complex IT Service Management landscape.
- Strong leadership skills to lead teams, foster collaboration, and make strategic decisions. Excellent communication skills to convey complex technical information to diverse stakeholders and align team efforts with business objectives.
You and your role
As Lead Infrastructure Engineer for DWP Mobile Services, you will lead the product's technical strategy from vision through to delivery, to help deliver on key business objectives.
The Product team has ownership of all aspects of DWP mobile services which includes software, hardware, infrastructure, support, service desk, budget, commercials and resources.
Working with representatives from across the Department, from operational staff delivering services to citizens through to Director level, technical and non-technical individuals, you must be capable of understanding business and user needs, and translating these into technical solutions, and visa-versa.
The role involves leading the safe, secure and productive use of Mobile Devices across the Department and across Government, and you will need to represent Mobile Devices in various forums as a result.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Manchester or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.
Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.
Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £89,995.
Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £20,000 per year.
Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.
You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.
We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
- Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-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
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
Process:
We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:
Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
Interview: a single stage interview online.
CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.