AMS PSR

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a DevOps Engineer for a 12 Month (Inside IR35) contract based in London, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle or Blackpool 2 days per week.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Help people to move into work and support those already in work to progress, with the aim of increasing overall workforce participation
• Help people to plan and save for later life, while providing a safety net for those who need it now
• Provide effective, efficient, and innovative services to the millions of claimants who rely on us every day, including the most vulnerable in society
• Improve experience of our services while maximising value for money for the taxpayer.

Please Note: This role requires SC Clearance. Candidates must be eligible/willing to undergo SC screening as a minimum.

Description:

As a DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for the design and implementation of

applications' build, release, deployment and configuration activities. Other

responsibilities include working within multi-functional teams to gather

requirements, evaluate tools, implementing/updating solutions, building and

executing test plans, provision environments, application performance reviews,

assist migration of legacy systems, and triaging and fixing operational issues.

You will contribute to DevOps culture promotion and aide/support the transition

to DevOps as a better practice.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads, manages, and develops their team of people, setting the direction for the team, to deliver high performance.
• Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery, assure and implement deployment strategies and apply different techniques to methods in analysing and resolving problems, working up new practices and procedures or modify existing processes to improve performance.
• Resolve issues to ensure citizen-facing services are repeatable, scalable, resilient and highly available. Communicate with a range of people, inside the Department, in other Government Organisations, in external organisations and with the general public to produce comprehensive technical documentation for wider consumption.
• Manage and co-ordinate work across a number of section and support product teams to write code that is simple and flexible to build, configure and deploy.
• Contribute to community discussions about DevOps best practice within Engineering, responsible for providing recommendations based on in depth research and determination of the options.
• Make and review decisions to progressively improve decision-making. Collaborate across teams and liaise with Lead/Senior DevOps Engineers and Technical Architects to investigate technical solutions.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to Software and DevOps Engineer peers.
• Implement a DevOps culture and automation best practices.

Skills/Knowledge Required:

• Agile CI/CD - RHEL, Terraform, Ansible, Git, Gitlab CI
• Cloud - Docker, PodMan, AWS, Azure
• PEGA use and coding
• Java
• Modify and maintain legacy systems and code, Standardise systems and code, Evolve systems and code, Automated Testing
• Convert technical requirements into solutions
• NGINX, SonarQube, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Helm, Deploying, supporting, patching, API’s, Microservices, Kubernetes, ISTIO
• User Testing

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant 

DWP guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".