Job summary Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'. Please note: You must have resided continuously in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years, 2 of which must have been the immediately preceding years from the point of applying for this job. WerehiringaLead DevOps Engineer (Azure) at DWP Digital!
Were looking for an outstanding candidate who wants to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. The products we build are changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.
Were looking for a driven and passionate person to be part of delivering digital services to people that need help during thedifficult timesof their lives.
You will act as a DevOps leader, building a DevOps culture along with line management responsibility of Senior DevOps Engineers. You will lead existing DevOps Engineers while increasing capability,standardsand practices across the organisation.
As a Lead DevOps Engineer you will contribute to our community ensuring that DWP and our DevOps practices evolve in line with technology advances.
You will join DWP Digitals Debt Services Departmentworkingin agile multidisciplinary teams to deliver modern,AzurecloudbasedDebt Management and Compensation Recovery systems.Our systems recover approximately 3billionper annumwhilst protecting the most vulnerable in our society. We use technologies like Gitlab, Terraform, Argo, Helm to manage a wide variety of infrastructure including Azure Service Bus, Azure Kubernetes Service, Postgres, MongoDB and more. Software applications are designed as microservices in Java and Node.js.
Ready to take the lead? Apply now and be part of something meaningful! Job description As Lead DevOps Engineer, you will:
- Work across multiple teams as an engineering specialist defining and refining organisation engineering standards.
- Push a mindset and culture change within the organisation to foster engineering ownership of infrastructure development alongside software engineering activities.
- Create capability, through definition of training opportunities, pastoralcareand practice alignment.
- Be responsible forensuring our digital services are adhering to standards and best practice.
- Be responsible forrecruitment within the DevOps community and working with senior leaders to ensure strategically the teams are setup to succeed.
- Be responsible formentoring and support of engineers and trainee DevOps engineers.
Please note: As part of the role, you maybe requiredto travel regularly to the other digital hubs. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful.
Person specification See selection process for further details.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact .
Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Benefits
Alongside your salary of 75,026, Department for Work and Pensions contributes 21,735 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
- Generous annual leave at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (prorata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
- Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
- Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 years continuous service.
- Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Womens Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
Hybrid Working This role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work.
If a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for the role and for you, you will normally be required to spend a minimum of 60% of your contracted working hours from your DWP office.
If you have a disability, caring responsibilities, or other circumstances that may affect your ability to meet the minimum office attendance requirement, please discuss this with us using the contact details in this advert.
Salary Information Pay for this role is from 75,026 to 92,522.
The maximum salary for the grade is 80,267, however a Digital Allowance of up to 12,255 per annum is available for exceptional candidates. Digital Allowance is non-salary, and non-pensionable, and is classed as a temporary allowance. It is reviewed annually where it could beretained, amended, or removed.
Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience asdemonstratedat interview.
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer willmaintaintheir current substantive salary.
Civil Servants who gain promotion will move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or receive a 10% increase applied to their current substantive salary, whichever is greater.
Any temporary allowances that you are currently in receipt of will not form part of the calculation todetermineyour pay. Any allowances that are in payment will cease when you move into your new role.
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.
Stage 1: Application Your application will consist of four parts:
1. A Personal Details application form.
2. Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed.
3. Personal statement - up to 1250 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria below:
- Significant experienceworking across multiple teams as a DevOps specialist, definingstandardsand ensuring best practices are adopted across the whole organisation.
- Experience of line-managing,mentoringand supporting DevOps engineers in multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment.
- Significant experienceof version control systems as well as building andmaintainingCI/CD pipelines(e.g. git with GitLab CI or Jenkins).
- Significant experienceof Infrastructure-as-code and configuration of code for one or more cloud providers.
- Experience of containerisation and container orchestration.
- Experience of multiple scriptingorprogramming languages (e.g. Bash, Python).
4. Technical statement (up to 250 words). The following statement is aligned to the required technical skill of Technical Breadth. This statement should be used to provide example(s) of how you meet the criterion below:
- Significant experience of the full life cycle of Azure cloud-based platforms and applications from designing, through deployment to supporting and operating in production, test and development environments.
Ensure that all examples provided in your statements are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. If you choose to use gen-AI to support your statements, you must follow the guidelines outlined in the
Artificial intelligence and recruitment guide. The sift panel will use the information in your employment history, personal statement, and technical statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge.
An initial sift will be conducted using the technical statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will be progressed to a full sift.
If you do progress to a full sift, you will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for both your employment history and Personal Statement click apply for full job details
