Lead DevOps Engineer

Graphics Unlimited (Vic) Pty Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology-focused organization seeks a Lead DevOps Engineer to join its team. You will lead an agile team, ensuring the development of high-quality software solutions and mentoring junior engineers. This role offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working model, along with numerous benefits aimed at promoting work-life balance.

Benefits

28.97% employer pension contributions

Flexible working hours

Generous leave package starting at 26 days

Discounts and savings on shopping

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software application development and deployment.
• Expertise in defining team standards and tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-functional agile delivery team.
• Mentor and coach team members in technical excellence.
• Implement best practices across the service lifecycle.

Skills

Technical Guidance

Mentorship

Compliance

Job description

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Pay up to £89,995, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for Lead DevOps Engineer. You will lead a multi-functional agile delivery team supporting the DevOps Engineers to build in quality, using industry best practices, to the products that make up services used by millions of people.

Our teams use 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, the problems we have to solve are rich and complex, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Expertise in defining and implementing local or team-based standards, tools, and techniques, ensuring compliance and technical integrity across all project stages. You select the appropriate development methods and provide expert technical guidance to stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle and ensures that practitioners adhere to this. You manage resources to ensure that the systems integration function works effectively.
• Strong track record of applying modern standards and best practices appropriately. You take ownership of mentoring, coaching, and guiding others to uphold technical excellence within teams.
• Proven capability in identifying and capitalising on opportunities through emerging digital technologies to enhance capabilities in alignment with evolving business objectives.
• Experience in setting organisation-wide release policies for both development and operations, ensuring effective service transition through robust management processes, tools, automation, validation, and configuration controls..
  
  

You and your role

You'll be working in a DWP DevSecOps team, helping to protect DWP and out users against threats.

Do you love working with new tech? Can you use new techniques to defend against global cyber threats? Are you an engaging leader with advanced technical and engineering skills?

As a Lead DevOps Engineer you will have a proven experience in the development, deployment and support of software applications and services that are focused on stability, availability and quality.

You will have the opportunity to promote technical evolution within our organisation, and to find, test, agree and adopt emerging technologies.

You will also develop and support our Engineering capability by rewarding high performers, shaping career paths and recruiting talent to the organisation.

As a Lead DevOps you will make complex decisions, involving a wide range of solutions, possibly affecting several work areas within the organisation.

Coming in as a Lead DevOps Engineer you will be working closely with our senior practitioners, sharing information, providing advice and support around technical choices, implementation approach, resourcing an identifying skills gaps.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, 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 sometime collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer pay of up to £89,995.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £ 21,050 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days and 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
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
  
  

Process

We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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