Senior DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 13 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,557 to £78,517 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 March 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, ne7 7ne |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | DWP Digital |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 389009_1739436912 |
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer
Pay up to £78,517 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and a truly great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We're looking for outstanding Senior DevOps Engineers, who want to contribute to demanding and exciting 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 millions of daily users.
Our DWP Digital teams are using fresh ideas and leading-edge technologies to create innovative, scalable and user-centric digital solutions, positively changing how government work.
We design, build, and run digital public services, making them simpler and faster for everyone.
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?
- Lead criterion - Demonstrable knowledge of writing and maintaining Infrastructure, and Configuration as Code.
- Demonstrable experience of developing and supporting cloud-based applications (AWS and/or Azure).
- Demonstrable knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Demonstrable experience of using Unix/Linux 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.
- Experience of supporting, guiding, and developing Engineers across multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment.
You and your role
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 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, provisioning environments, and assisting with operational issues.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Manchester, Newcastle 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 £78,517
Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £16,000 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 are 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.
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