Infrastructure Engineer Department for Work & Pensions
Reference
101143
Number of vacancies
2
Location
Newcastle
Salary
Up to £45,000
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
15 March 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 a talented Engineer to work with us on a once-in-a-generation digital transformation of these services.
DWP Digital is our growing 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.
DevOps. Work. Projects.
We are looking for talented Engineers to join us to develop, deploy, maintain and enhance cloud infrastructure solutions and new technologies to help support the Intelligent Automation Garage (IAG) Platform. Your work will help increase productivity and improve decision making across DWP.
IAG has developed and deployed over 50 automations for DWP – processing over 9.8m transactions – using a mix of technologies including Robotics Process Automation, Computer Vision, OCR, Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning.
Working closely with DWP business areas and stakeholders, IAG teams design, build, deploy and run automations using our cloud platform and liquid infrastructure.
DWP: Winning Prizes.
Recognized as a Government leader in Intelligent Automation, DWP is also acknowledged as leading the way across industry – this was confirmed with success at National Technology Awards 2019 (Tech Team of the Year) and Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 (Best Automation Project).
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
• EC2: Instances, Autoscaling groups, Lifecycle Policies / Lifecycle Hooks.
• CloudFormation / Terraform Infrastructure as Code
• Advanced Level template scripting, knowledge of parameters, functions, references, mappings.
• Autoscaling and Non-Autoscaling templates, CFN-Init.
• VPC: Creating and managing VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups (Firewall rules), Network ACLS. VPC Peering, AWS Privatelink and VPC Endpoints, and understanding of HA systems.
• Linux OS: Basic knowledge of Amazon Linux 2, Bash, and fundamental experience of Grep, Installing Packages, User Account Management.
• Operating Systems: Advanced Knowledge of Windows Server 2008R2, 2012R2, 2016.
• HTTPS/Certificates/SSL/Mutual SSL: Understanding and experience of applying certificates, knowledge of modern encryption techniques.
• Live Service Management: Understanding of the importance of running a business critical production environment – ability to carefully follow change management process.
• Understanding of SRE principals and standards.
• Expertise in DevOps principals, good knowledge of incident management / change management
• Knowledge of GIT: branching strategies, merging, push, pull requests etc.
Details. Wages. Perks.
You’ll join us in our brilliant digital hub in Newcastle: 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 £45,000 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, flexi hours and flexi days off
• 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.
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