Senior DevOps Engineer Department for Work & Pensions
Reference
1604951
Number of vacancies
8
Location
Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield
Salary
up to £62,203
Work hours
37 per week (flexible working)
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
In return for your skills we offer competitive salary, a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions circa 20% and a generous leave package.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
• Flexible working
• Family friendly policies
• Volunteering and charitable giving
• 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
• Sports and social activities
• And lots more
Closing date
3 December 2018
Job description
If you’re creative and curious to learn, want to be empowered to make decisions and challenge the norm, and want to bring BIG ideas to a MASSIVE digital challenge then you’ll love it here.
We’re looking for talented Senior Dev Ops Engineers to join our growing community of experts and become a key part of one of the biggest and highest-profile digital transformation programmes in the world.
Using fresh ideas and leading edge technologies – and putting the user at the centre of everything we do – we create innovative digital solutions that make a difference to the lives of our 22 million users.
We would especially welcome applications from those who have:
• Experience working with a technical architect to specify the infrastructure and technical approach for the delivery of product being developed.
• Extensive experience with deploying, supporting and patching public, cloud-based applications that are repeatable, scalable, resilient and highly available (including APIs and microservices).
• Experience with writing ‘Infrastructure as Code’ using tools such as Terraform.
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BLOGS: A closer look at DevOps jobs in DWP Digital
Read how challenging and rewarding it is here from Rob Brooks, a current DevOps engineer at DWP Digital, about the role in leading a team who work across a number of different projects and systems.
https://dwpdigital.blog.gov.uk/2018/10/24/no-two-days-are-the-same-devops-at-dwp-digital/
And also Aswini Dasika, head of DevOps at DWP Digital, discusses how the department is successfully adopting a DevOps culture to deliver a better user experience.
http://bit.ly/2JoYQug
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You will also have:
• Good understanding of application security aspects such as web application firewalls, hardening operating system images etc.
• Extensive experience of using, operating, patching and securing Linux operating systems like RHEL.
• Extensive experience of configuration management software like Puppet or Ansible and scripting languages like BASH, Perl or Python.
• Extensive experience setting up and working with continuous integration and deployment pipelines
• Skilled knowledge and ability in modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by other engineers.
• The ability to lead DevOps Engineers in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment, delivering products within specific time-scales and engaging with multiple senior stakeholders.
Where You’ll Work
You’ll join us in one of our easy-to-reach digital hubs in Leeds, Blackpool, Sheffield or Manchester.
Each hub is a modern, vibrant workplace that was designed for and by members of our digital community.
Our central hubs have the best of the city on the doorstep, and we have a range of facilities across the sites from cafes, coffee shops and restaurants, to ping pong, a swimming pool, gym facilities and loads more.
Here we provide the latest tech and tooling and foster a collaborative culture to help our agile, multidisciplinary teams think big and try new things. You will work alongside people who care passionately about public service, making a difference and delivering for our customers.
We’re the UK’s biggest government department with over 80,000 diverse and brilliant people on our team. We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.
Building Our Future
We believe the work we do really matters, so we’re serious about investing in your ability.
You’ll have access to a huge suite of training and learning opportunities to complement the new skills and experience you’ll acquire on the job.
You’ll share ideas with colleagues from across the tech community, and grow your skills via our coaching and mentoring programmes.