Infrastructure Engineer – Database Engineer Department for Work & Pensions
Reference
85587
Number of vacancies
1
Location
Newcastle
Salary
Up to £40,666
Work hours
37
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
A brilliant Civil Service pension with employer contributions circa 20%, generous annual leave, flexible working, great work life balance and lots more.
Closing date
4 January 2021
Job description
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
DWP is the UK’s largest government department. We deliver products and services that are used by millions of people in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives. We are looking for talented Database Engineers to join our Infrastructure Engineering community and work with us on a once-in-a-generation digital transformation of these services.
DWP Digital is our community of digital experts. Using fresh ideas and leading edge technologies – and putting the user at the centre of everything we do – we create innovative, scalable digital solutions that make a difference to the lives of our 22 million users and to our amazing DWP colleagues.
Working in a team of infrastructure specialists, engineers and 3rd parties you will make sure DWP services are delivered and used as required. You’ll improve the health and reliability of systems used by millions of people at critical moment in their lives.
Duties. Work. Projects.
This role is for a Database Engineer. You will work as part of our Data Platforms Engineering team, helping us move towards our aspiration of delivering automated builds into Cloud and on Premise hosting.
You will develop and use skills in Cloud Deployments, automation techniques and self-service database functions.
This isn’t an administrative role. You’ll be a key provider of tooling, advice and techniques to our operational DBAs. You will deal with the day-to-day management and development of infrastructure products and input to their design.
You will be responsible for the operational stability of the infrastructure solutions, and be in a position to affect change in the on-going robustness and resilience of those products. You’ll have chance to work in collaboration with senior engineers, and talented people from lots of different disciplines as part of agile team.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
Infrastructure Delivery & Improvement
• Design and implement infrastructure services/solutions to meet strategic plans and roadmaps.
• Deal with and take decisions on day-to-day operational management of services/solutions relating to own work area and to those they manage.
• Provide specialist technical support and assistance to projects ensuring definition and delivery of requisite non-functional requirements to architectural and roadmap developments.
• Management of an operational area, a function, or a project team, act independently on day-to-day issues.
Infrastructure Support
• 3rd line support for incidents, problems and changes
• Apply different techniques to methods in analysing and resolving problems, working up new practices and procedures or modify existing processes to improve performance.
• Providing technical support and assistance.
• Apply different techniques to methods in analysing and resolving problems, working up new practices and procedures or modify existing processes to improve performance.
Information Management
• Provide reports of Service performance to the Senior Infrastructure Engineer and other senior leadership members from Digital, reporting against agreed KPIs and via the relevant reporting channels and forums.
• Management of the risk register for individual technical area, ensuring appropriate reporting and mitigation plans and actions are implemented.
Details. Wages. Perks.
You’ll join us in our brilliant digital hub in Newcastle-upon-Tyne : https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/our-locations/
We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly, and many of us are working remotely at the moment due to COVID-19.
In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £40,666 a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth over 27%, 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
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
• Join an organisation with an award nominated, and award winning, culture and environment
CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.
If you want to talk about this opportunity before you apply contact me via viv.vayapooree@dwp.gov.uk