Lead DevOps Engineer

at  Department for Work and Pensions

JOB SUMMARY

Are you an experienced DevOps Engineer with a passion for automation excellence?
Would you love the opportunity to promote technical evolution within the organisation across multiple teams aligned to Digital Channels?
If so, come join us as a Lead DevOps Engineer.
We’re looking for an outstanding Lead DevOps Engineer, who want to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. The products we build are the changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.
Digital Channels drives and enables the modernisation of DWP’s customer contact, helping customers communicate with our department via the most appropriate channel. We run some of the UK’s largest ‘Live Services’ including the telephony, bulk printing and the scanning and indexing of incoming letters and forms.
We’re looking for a driven and passionate Lead DevOps Engineer who would like to be part of teams delivering real value to people that need help during the difficult times of their lives.
The candidate will act as a DevOps leader, building a DevOps culture along with line management responsibility of Senior DevOps Engineers. You will lead existing DevOps Engineers while increasing capability, standards and practices across the organisation.
As a Lead DevOps Engineer you will contribute to our community ensuring that DWP and our DevOps practices evolve in line with technology advances.
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see ‘Selection process details’.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As Lead DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Work across multiple teams as an engineering specialist leading the organisation’s DevOps strategy while defining and refining its engineering standards.
• Push a mindset and culture change within the organisation to foster engineering ownership of infrastructure development alongside software engineering activities.
• Create capability, through definition of training opportunities, pastoral care and practice alignment.
• Be responsible for ensuring our digital services are adhering to standards and best practice.
• Be responsible for recruitment within the DevOps community and working with the Head of Engineering for Digital Channels to ensure strategically the teams are setup to succeed.
• Responsible for mentoring and support of engineers and trainee DevOps engineers.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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