Senior NetOps Engineer

at  Department for Work and Pensions

JOB SUMMARY

Please note - this role requires you to pass a security clearance check. For further information on this please see selection process details.
As a Senior NetOps Engineer, you will be a skilled Practitioner and a role model in Infrastructure solutions.
Responsible for ensuring best practices are adhered to across the department and guiding teams on how to deliver quality Infrastructure products.
You will assist in the design of Infrastructure services in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles.
You will also have the ongoing responsibility for the full range of products that make up Network Services.
Working in collaboration with a range of internal/external partners, stakeholders and customers you will ensure the operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability, and quality of DWP Networks.
You will actively manage the work backlog and develop reliability improvements as well as leading initiatives to develop the automation of low-value tasks balanced against project delivery demands.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The role will involve creating and developing our DevOps/NetOps culture in the team as we transition to new ways of working.
You will help to develop and modernise the product delivery unit’s applications and security posture and the ways we deliver this to our customers with speed and consistency.

Therefore, experience and successful track record of design, build and operations of services in large scale organisations is required, specifically in the areas of:

• Designing secure high availability Hybrid Cloud connectivity solutions (inc AWS, Azure or OCI).
• Designing Enterprise Network Services using automation.
• Managing the implementation of complex technical solutions.

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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