Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Shared Engineering Tooling

DWP Digital; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

DWP Digital is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join their team in Leeds. The role involves designing and implementing cloud infrastructure solutions while collaborating with various teams to ensure operational stability. With a competitive salary and excellent benefits, this position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to impactful digital solutions used by millions.

Benefits

Employer pension contributions of 28.97%

Flexible working hours

Generous leave package starting at 26 days

Professional development and career progression

Discounts and savings on shopping

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Cloud compute, storage, and configuration.
• Proven ability in source code management systems like GitLab.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement public cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Collaborate with Architects and Site Reliability Engineers.
• Ensure operational stability, resilience, and availability.

Skills

Cloud compute

Source code management

Unix operating systems

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Service and Delivery management frameworks

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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 talented and highly skilled Infrastructure Engineers 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?

• Significant demonstrable experience in Cloud compute, storage, and configuration, ensuring solutions are repeatable, scalable, resilient, and highly available.
• Proven ability in the use and administration of source code management systems such as GitLab, including writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience of working with Unix operating systems, container technologies and container orchestration.
• Proven ability of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using Terraform, and writing Config-as-Code (CaC) using Ansible. CloudFormation desirable.
• Experience of identifying and automating toil where appropriate, to improve efficiency, increase reliability and reduce repetitive manual tasks
• Extensive experience and proven track record of working within Service and Delivery management frameworks (ITIL - Incident, Problem, Change, and Agile methodologies).

You and your role

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for Hybrid Cloud Services, 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.

This is an exciting time to be part of what is effectively an enterprise-scale tech company in the heart of government.

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

  Embedded Software Products, Social Networking Platforms, and Technology, Information and Internet

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