Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Hybrid Cloud) - Department for Work and Pensions - G7

Manchester Digital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

DWP Engineering in the UK is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to shape and deliver cloud-hosted infrastructure across multiple locations. You will design, implement, and operate public cloud services with emphasis on security and resilience, and work with product teams to migrate systems to strategic platforms.

You will support automation initiatives, mentor juniors, and help standardise hosting practices to accelerate delivery while ensuring high availability for millions of users.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering Public Cloud infrastructure
• Ability to implement automation to reduce toil and improve reliability
• Familiarity with multi-cloud hosting strategies and standards
• Proven track record in supporting large-scale infrastructure deployments

Responsibilities

• Support design and implementation of Public Cloud infrastructure to meet plans and roadmaps
• Manage operation of Public Cloud technologies with a focus on security, availability, resilience, and performance
• Provide specialist technical support and guidance to junior staff
• Develop and implement service improvement plans for cloud-based tech
• Lead incident management for cloud-hosted services and platforms
• Collaborate with PDU teams to understand Ansible and GitLab instances
• Develop and support migration paths to strategic platforms
• Minimise disruption during migrations by proactive issue resolution
• Upskill end users and stakeholders on new tooling and processes
• Identify and implement automation to reduce toil and improve reliability

Skills

Public Cloud

Automation

Orchestration

Ansible

GitLab

Security

Tools

Ansible Automation Platform

GitLab

Job description

Location

This role may be located in one of the following locations; Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle.

Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.

Please note: for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View. It will then move to 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027.

About The Job

Job summary

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join DWP Engineering as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer and to create innovative digital solutions that make a difference to the lives of our 22 million users. We’re driving the adoption of Public Cloud services in line with Government Digital Service (GDS) and DWP’s own strategic hosting architectural principles.

The strategy for our engineers is to implement a ‘Digital by Default’ approach. We will do this by providing an end-to-end ‘multi-cloud’ hosted service for our Product Development Units. We’ll be providing a securely connected hosting service which removes DWP’s reliance on traditional hosting solutions and contracts.

To ensure our success, we are standardising, simplifying and automating, together with developing processes, training and tools to accelerate our delivery.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will be capable of role modelling Infrastructure solutions which adhere to best practice, with a focus on operational stability, resilience, and availability.

This position will collaborate with Architects, Site Reliability Engineers, Delivery Managers, and Product Managers, who all support the implementation and operation of Cloud hosted products and services.

The role will sit within one of our Engineering Tooling Services Teams which comprise of Automation & Orchestration and Manage & Deploy My Code services. This role will maintain and support project to exit Ansible Automation Platform and GitLab from the On Premise Hosting (OPH) estate.

Job Description

• Support the design and implementation of Public Cloud infrastructure services/solutions to meet strategic plans and roadmaps.
• Responsible for operational management of Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services, with a focus on security, availability, resilience, and performance.
• Provide specialist service/solution technical support and assistance to junior staff and users.
• Development and implementation of service improvement plans to address identified issues for Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services.
• Responsible for management and resolution of Incidents for Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services.
• Working with Product Delivery Unit (PDU) teams to understand their current Ansible Automation Platform and GitLab instances.
• Develop, execute and support the migration path for PDU instances to the strategic platforms.
• Ensure minimal disruption to services by proactively identifying and resolving technical issues during and after migrations.
• Supporting with the upskilling and developing of end users.
• Identify, develop and implement automation solutions to reduce operational toil, improve system reliability, and enable teams to focus on higher value activities.

Person specification

See selection process for further details.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact [e-mail].