DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer - Manchester.

You will be responsible for deploying product updates, identifying production issues and implementing integrations that meet our requirements on Hybrid Cloud Services designs.

The vision for HCS is to support the wider DWP vision of 'Digital By Default' by:

• Providing an end-to-end 'multi-cloud' hosted service for DWP's Product Development Units.
• Providing a securely connected hosting service. Removing DWP's reliance on traditional hosting solutions and contracts.
• Standardising, simplifying and automating delivery through a Target Operating Model (TOM), with underpinning processes, training and tools to accelerate PDU delivery.

Your daily tasks will be

• Provisioning AWS server using Terraform and writing playbooks where the automation is defined
• Responsible for contributing to providing advice and guidance to others in the organisation.
• Identifying and fixing various merging conflicts and pushes appropriate code into GitLab source.
• Maintain Cloud diagnostics and taking responsibility for decision-making and professional development.

You will have

• significant experience of Linux Operating Systems.
• significant experience of Scripting systems using Terraform.
• significant experience of Version Controls systems (Git and GitLab CI).
• significant experience of working in an agile environment building, deploying, supporting, patching and operating cloud applications (in particular AWS and Azure).
• experience of containers and containerised workloads e.g. orchestration services such as Kubernetes and ISTIO.

What are we offering?

• A competitive base salary - see bandings on advertisement
• Civil service contribution pension
• Flexi-time and alternative working patterns
• 25 days annual holiday
• 5 days leave for training and development

The Department is committed to promoting flexible ways of working, whilst enabling the business to operate at maximum efficiency and will expect colleagues to work from a blend of locations, including some time working at home, as required. The corporate hub location will be the designated place of work and any remote or home working arrangement does not constitute a change to your designated place of work or contractual Terms and Conditions.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Stage 1: Application & Sift

Stage 2 - Video Interview

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Our total offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.