Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive a DevOps culture and line manage Senior DevOps Engineers within Debt Services. You will lead cross-functional squads, define standards and build capability across the organisation, delivering Azure-based infrastructure and modern microservices.

The role involves mentoring engineers, recruiting within the DevOps community, and evolving practices with technologies like GitLab, Terraform, Argo and Helm in a government

Qualifications

• Experience leading DevOps teams in large organisations.
• Strong knowledge of Azure cloud services and Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing DevOps practices and standards.

Responsibilities

• Define and refine organisational engineering standards.
• Push a mindset and culture change to foster engineering ownership of infrastructure alongside software engineering activities.
• Create capability through training opportunities, pastoral care and practice alignment.
• Be responsible for ensuring our digital services adhere to standards and best practice.
• Be responsible for recruitment within the DevOps community and work with senior leaders to ensure teams are set up to succeed.
• Mentor and support engineers and trainee DevOps engineers.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Line management

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Recruitment

Tools

GitLab

Terraform

Argo

Helm

Azure Kubernetes Service

Azure Service Bus

Postgres

MongoDB

Java

Node.js

Job description

We're 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. We're looking for a driven and passionate person to be part of delivering digital services to people that need help during the difficult times of 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, standards and 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.,

• 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, pastoral care and practice alignment.
• Be responsible for ensuring our digital services are adhering to standards and best practice.
• Be responsible for recruitment within the DevOps community and working with senior leaders to ensure strategically the teams are setup to succeed.
• Be responsible for mentoring and support of engineers and trainee DevOps engineers.

Please note: As part of the role, you may be required to travel regularly to the other digital hubs. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful.

You will join DWP Digital's Debt Services Department working in agile multidisciplinary teams to deliver modern, Azure cloud based Debt Management and Compensation Recovery systems. Our systems recover approximately £3 billion per annum whilst 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.