Job Vacancy Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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 Lead DevOps Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

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 experience will you need?

• Significant experience of managing 3rd parties who provide Data Centre services.
• Significant experience of supporting Incident and Service Management and associated Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tooling with the resolution of Data Centre critical major incidents/issues impacting live service.
• Significant experience of providing specialist technical support and assistance to projects ensuring definition and delivery of requisite non-functional requirements to architectural and roadmap developments.
• Significant experience of identifying process improvements and contributing to corporate standards and definition of best practice.
• Significant experience of assisting with the implementation of agreed remedies to issues and preventative measures.
• Significant experience of supporting end of life planning for infrastructure and ensuring compliance with quality management, risk management and security policies and procedures.

You and your role

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will be designing and developing infrastructure products as part of our Data Centre team, ensuring the operational stability of infrastructure solutions and implementing changes to meet the current and future demands. You will be guiding, supporting and coaching a team of infrastructure engineers, lending your experience and skills to inform their work and drive innovation, planning for future growth and responding to incidents and issues, providing first-class service.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us at our data centre in Corsham.

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

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £19,801 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
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
2. Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.