JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer for Hybrid Cloud Services, you will be capable of designing 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.
We ensure that we’re aligned to the Department’s Technical Reference Architecture (TRA) and Security and Compliance Standards in all stages of development and delivery.
You will be part of a HCS Secure my Operating System Team, providing the Department with centrally configured, supported, and maintained Operating Systems across both Cloud and On-Premise, hardened in line with the latest Centre for Internet Security Benchmarks and DWP Security Standards.
This is an exciting role working with the latest technologies in a continuously developing landscape in a critical area to DWP. Our ambition is to combine a DevOps approach to software development with the cloud-based automation of testing and deployment. To aid this we use a common set of collaboration, tracking and version control tools across all of our businesses, enabling greater reuse and knowledge sharing across our IT estate.
The team are responsible for cloud infrastructure, design and implementation using CI/CD tooling. A broad skill set is required for the role including Terraform, Ansible, Python and Packer.
This is an exciting time to be part of what is effectively an enterprise-scale tech company in the heart of government.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will:

• Support the design and implementation of Public Cloud infrastructure services/solutions to meet strategic plans and roadmaps.
• Be 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.
• Be responsible for management and resolution of Incidents for Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services.

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)
• 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

PLEASE NOTE - THIS ROLE REQUIRES YOU TO PASS A SECURITY CLEARANCE CHECK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS PLEASE SEE SELECTION PROCESS DETAILS.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join DWP Hybrid Cloud Services (HCS) as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer during a period of significant digital transformation. 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 HCS team design, build and run all our hosting infrastructure including Public Cloud and On-Premises hosting. We’re helping product and service owners to transition to the Cloud.
The strategy for HCS 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.