Infrastructure Engineers

DWP Digital
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
12 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£57,946.0 - £73,205.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Microsoft Windows Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Continuous Integration Integrated Development Environments Scripting Multi-Cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Requirements

  • Demonstrable knowledge of writing and maintaining Infrastructure and Configuration as Code.
  • Strong experience of using Unix/Linux/Windows in a support and/or development environment including scripting languages.
  • Demonstrable experience of working in a NetDevOps environment - Continuous Integration & Deployment, Delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience.
  • Demonstrable knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience of supporting, guiding and developing engineers across multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment.
  • Demonstrable experience of developing and supporting cloud-based network solutions across a multi-cloud environment.

You and your role

You’ll work alongside talented engineers across cloud and on-premises technologies, helping to build smarter, more automated ways of working that improve service reliability and speed up delivery. From designing secure connectivity solutions across AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to leading technical improvements and automation initiatives, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact from day one.

This is a role for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical challenges, influencing how services evolve and working across a range of delivery approaches, from agile to project-based environments. You’ll build strong relationships across engineering teams, lead continuous improvement and help create modern, high-performing services that support millions of users.

Benefits & conditions

Pay up to £73,305 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance., 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

£

73,205

Pension: You’ll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth

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 flexitime. You’ll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

  • 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.

About the company

We are looking for outstanding Senior Infrastructure Engineers who are skilled in network automation to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital, to assist in the design of Infrastructure services in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles.

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.

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