Senior Infrastructure Engineer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £55,557 i £68,517 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 10 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, ne7 7ne |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 2 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | DWP Digital |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 420761_1754904842 |
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Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Pay up to £68,517 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We are looking for a talented and highly skilled Infrastructure Engineer with experience in cloud infrastructure and IaC to join our community of tech experts.
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 significant experience will you need?
- Lead Criteria: Strong experience in AWS Compute Services such as EC2, Autoscaling, Lambda, Lifecycle Hooks, volumes and snapshots management, AMI creation using Image Builder or Packer
- Significant experience in AWS CloudFormation/Cloud Development Kit (CDK) , Terraform Infrastructure as a Code - Advanced level template scripting, knowledge of parameters, functions, references, mappings, resource groups, user data/bootstrap script execution
- Strong working knowledge of GIT, branching strategies, merging, push, pull requests/ Create and manage CI/CD pipelines
- Advanced Knowledge of AWS VPC - Creating and managing private networks, Subnets, Security Groups, Network ACLs, Peering, Private Link Endpoint, Internet/Nat/Transit Gateways/VPNs
- Operating System - strong working knowledge and practical experience of Amazon Linux/Red Hat/CentOS, Bash scripting and fundamentals, Installing packages, grep. Advanced knowledge on management of Windows Server 2012R2, Windows Server 2016/2019, PowerShell Scripting - including creating advanced reusable modules, event managements and installation of tooling and other software in a non-interactive manner
- Live Services - significant demonstrable experience and thorough understanding of running a business-critical production environment - ability to carefully follow change management process, understanding of SRE principles, standards. Expertise in DevOps principles and practises, knowledge on incident/problem/change management
You and your role
We're on the lookout for a talented Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our Live Services Infrastructure team. If you thrive on solving complex problems, love working with AWS, and have a knack for designing resilient, scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code this could be the one for you.
You'll be working alongside fast-paced delivery teams, using top-tier tools like GitLab, Jira, Slack and SharePoint whilst collaborating with partners like AWS, UiPath and MongoDB. We're big on proactive monitoring, robust solutions and keeping critical services running smoothly. You will also have access to amazing learning resources, from expert-led training to direct Slack support channels.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Manchester or Newcastle, 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 £68,517
Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 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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