AMS PSR

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer for a 12 month contract (Inside IR35) based hybrid in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield 3 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.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable Linux-based infrastructure across cloud platforms (primarily AWS), leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Automate system configuration and application deployment using Configuration as Code (CaC) tools such as Ansible and scripting languages like Shell and Python.
• Develop, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab, GitHub, or Jenkins to enable efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Build, secure, and manage containerized applications using Docker and related technologies across multiple environments.
• Administer and optimise databases, particularly MongoDB Atlas, ensuring performance, security, and backup strategies are in place.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve infrastructure and application issues, including leading responses to severity incidents and using tools like Splunk for log aggregation and analysis.

Essential:

• Extensive and demonstrable experience in designing, building, maintaining Linux workloads running across multiple environments on a cloud platform such as AWS.
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing best practices using IaC tools such as Terraform and automating legacy applications with scripting languages such as shell scripts, python.
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing best practices using CaC tools such as Ansible.
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Gitlab, Github, Jenkins. 
• Extensive experience in building, deploying and securing containers using various strategies across multiple environments
• Extensive experience in designing, implementing, testing with databases such as Mongo Atlas
• Extensive experience in problem solving and troubleshooting technical issues.
• Experience in using log management and aggregation tools such as Splunk.
• Experience in handling severity incidents.

  
  

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. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

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 exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

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".