Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - EKS

DWP Digital; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading government department as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, where you'll design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions. Enjoy competitive pay, hybrid working, and a supportive work environment focused on work-life balance.

Benefits

Employer pension contributions of 28.97%

Flexible working hours

Generous leave package starting at 26 days

Professional development opportunities

Discounts and savings on shopping

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and implementing public cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Experience with Kubernetes and associated technologies.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate products and services for DWP Digital.
• Design, implement, and support cloud technologies.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes administration

Cloud-based applications

Job description

DWP Digital Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

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Pay up to £68,517 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a talented and highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with experience in designing and implementing public cloud infrastructure solutions to join our community of tech experts.

We're using 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, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and significant experience will you need?

• Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab or equivalent.
• Writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code.
• Container build and runtime environments, Kubernetes administration and associated technologies e.g. Flux, Argo CD, Helm.
• Developing and supporting cloud-based applications (Cloud Infrastructure Engineering).

You and your role

As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will work in an agile team to build and operate products and services for DWP Digital.

You'll get to build shared cloud infrastructure services to help application teams quickly deploy and scale applications by designing, implementing, administering, and supporting cloud technologies like networking, cloud connectivity, continuous integration, container administration and PaaS/SaaS services.

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

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £68,517

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth over £16,000 per year.

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

Process:

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

  Engineering, Information Technology, and Management

• Industries

  Computer Networking Products, Embedded Software Products, and Technology, Information and Internet

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