Senior DevOps Engineer - Azure -Department for Work and Pensions-G7
Government Digital & Data -
Senior DevOps Engineer - Azure
Department for Work and Pensions
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 18th August 2024
Details
Reference number
363293
Salary
£52,412 - £78,517
Job grade
Grade 7
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
DWP - Digital
Type of role
Digital
Engineering
Information Technology
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
Number of jobs available
2
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Location
This role may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.
About the job
Job summary
We’re looking for outstanding Senior 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’re looking for driven and passionate Senior DevOps Engineers who would like to be part of teams delivering real value to people that need help during the difficult times of their lives.
You’ll act as DevOps leaders, with line management responsibility of DevOps Engineers which will consist of leading 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.
We have two vacancies on offer which are within the Health and Disability team & Appeals & Supporting Capabilities.
Our development teams at DWP Digital - Health & Disability create solutions that enable simple, responsive services to make timely, accurate and understandable decisions that help 16 million people in the UK, that have a health condition or disability, get the support they need.
The Cloud infrastructure team within Health and Disability is a platform and enabling team with specialist skilling that centrally develops and maintains an application platform and an Azure data & analytics platform to meet the needs of our transforming and scaling Health & Disability services and users. We do this to reduce cognitive load on individual Health development teams to allow those teams reclaim time and energy that can be spent on developing great products which scale and that are reliable.
We’re looking for outstanding Senior DevOps Engineers to develop, build and maintain our Azure hosted services across Appeals & Supporting Capabilities. This includes services across Retirement, Bereavement and Care that provide support for the most vulnerable people in society.
This role represents a unique opportunity to join the Appeals & Supporting Capabilities team at DWP Digital, to be part of a team delivering real value to people that need help during the difficult times of their lives.
Due to the size and location of the team you’ll be required to regularly travel to all Hub locations.
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.
Job description
As a Senior 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 Azure 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
When giving details in your CV you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
• Lead Criteria - Demonstrable experience of developing and supporting Azure cloud-based applications.
• Demonstrable knowledge of writing and maintaining Infrastructure, and Configuration as Code.
• Demonstrable experience of using Unix/Linux/Windows in a support and/or development environment including scripting languages.
• Demonstrable experience of working in a DevOps environment – Continuous Integration & Deployment, Delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience.
• Demonstrable knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience of supporting, guiding, and developing Engineers across multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Richard.hanley@dwp.gov.uk.
Benefits
• An employer pension contribution of up to 28.97% For further information please click here.
• Annual leave rising up to 30 days, (based on your working pattern).
• Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
• Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring.
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
Salary Information
Pay for this role is from £52,412 to £63,517.
The maximum salary for the grade is £63,517, however a Digital Allowance of up to £15,000 per annum is available for exceptional candidates, based on our assessment of your skills and experience.
Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.
Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the next grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
Stage 1: Application
Applications must include:
1. A completed Personal Details application form.
2. A curriculum vitae including education, professional qualifications and full employment history, giving details of key achievements in line with essential criteria listed in the Person Specification.
When uploading your CV, do not include personal information or links to any webpages or profiles that identifies you. This means we can recruit based on your knowledge and skills, and not background, gender or ethnicity. Take out references to your name/title, age, sex, email address, postal address, telephone number or nationality/immigration status.
When giving details of your redacted CV, you should therefore include details of the work and projects that you have been involved in, and your role therein.
For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.
Important information
• Please attach your redacted CV as a separate additional document in either PDF or word format.
• If your CV contains any personal details your application may be withdrawn.
Stage 2: Interview
If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed in the essential criteria.
You will be asked to do a technical exercise on a specific topic which will need to be returned 48 hours before your interview and will be used to form part of your interview. The technical exercise will be aligned to the essential criteria. Further details will be provided to candidates invited to interview.
Interviews will take place from early-September 2024. Interview dates to be confirmed.
Candidates are advised to book their interview slot as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out as the interview booking portal will close 7 days before interviews are due to start.
Further information
Find out more about Working for DWP
A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.
All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.
Security Clearance Requirement
You must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
For meaningful checks to be carried out, you will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. Whilst a lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance, and expectation of UK residency may range from 3 to 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements needed for the role may result in the withdrawal of provisional jobs offers.
NSV
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
Reasonable Adjustment
At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.
We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
