Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Department for Work and Pensions

Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 10th November 2024

 

Details

Reference number

374104

Salary

£52,412 - £68,517
The maximum salary includes a potential digital allowance. For more information and a further breakdown please see Salary Information.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Grade 7

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

DWP - Digital

Type of role

Digital
Information Technology

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

This role may be located in one of the following locations; Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle. Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.

Job summary

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join DWP Hybrid Cloud Services as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and to create innovative digital solutions that make a difference to the lives of our 22 million users.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineers are responsible for the implementation and operation of secure and highly available computing platforms, products, and networks. They, build, maintain, upgrade, and continuously improve DWP’s cloud infrastructure and services. They also maintain the ongoing reliability, performance, and support of the infrastructure. This includes:

  • Delivery, administration and maintenance of shared cloud infrastructure services that are used to host and support DWP applications.
  • Ensuring availability, reliability, resilience and security are designed into services to ensure they provide a stable platform for hosting business applications.
  • Providing self-service and automated, repeatable solutions to accelerate application development and to reduce toil and duplication.
  • Monitoring the operating environments.
  • Responding to incidents and problems.

Job description

As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will work in an agile multidisciplinary team building and operating products and services that are consumed by the rest of DWP Digital.

You will build centralised, shared cloud infrastructure services that allow application teams to build, deploy and scale applications quickly to serve our citizens.  Our infrastructure hosts applications that serve 22 million citizens, making around £177 billion in payments each year.

You will design, implement, administer and support cloud infrastructure technologies, solutions and services such as:

  • Networking and Cloud connectivity.
  • Continuous integration.
  • Infrastructure as Code.
  • PaaS and SaaS services.

You will be working across one or more of these services, liaising with other technical teams, with the autonomy to identify and build the right solution to meet user needs.

You will have a deep understanding of cloud tools and technologies, especially around infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud networking.

You will have an appreciation of information security, designing solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.

As part of the team you will support products (in-hours and on-call), ensuring that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate problems.

You will have line-management responsibilities, and provide technical support and assistance to junior team-members.

You will communicate with others in a clear, honest and enthusiastic way in order to build trust, and be able to explain complex issues in a way that is easy to understand.

Person specification

When giving details in your employment history and Personal Statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:

  • Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab or equivalent.
  • Writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code.
  • Azure Networking.
  • Developing and supporting Azure cloud-based or containerised applications.
  • Writing and maintaining Python, or a similar programming language.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact richard.hanley@dwp.gov.uk

Alongside your salary of £52,412, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £15,183 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Alongside your salary, the Department for Work and Pensions contributes 28.97% towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

  • Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
  • Generous annual leave – at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
  • Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
  • Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
  • Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service.
  • Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
  • An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post. 

Salary Information

Pay for this role is from £52,412 - £68,517.

The maximum salary for the grade is £63,517, however a Digital Allowance of up to £5,000 per annum is available for exceptional candidates.

Digital Allowance is non-salary, and non-pensionable, and is classed as a temporary allowance. It is reviewed annually where it could be retained, amended, or removed.

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

Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.

Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.

Selection process details

Stage 1: Application

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and Personal Statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Your application will consist of three parts:

1. A Personal Details application form.

2. Your Employment History detailing your responsibilities, skills, accomplishments, plus your qualifications and relevant training. Please copy this information into the box field provided.

3. Personal Statement up to 1000 words. 

When giving details in your Employment History and Personal Statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria listed in the Person Specification.

The sift panel will use the information in your Employment History and Personal Statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria above.

Applications will be sifted at regular intervals from the date the posts are advertised. Please apply as soon as you can, do not wait until the end of the campaign.

You will receive one combined score for both your Employment History and Personal Statement, which will be provided in your Personal Statement score.

Important Information

  • You will be asked to complete your Employment History any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form.
  • Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.

If your Employment History/Personal Statement contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn.

Stage 2: Interview

If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed in the essential criteria.

Sift dates to be confirmed.

Interviews will take place from end of November 2024.

Further information

Find out more about Working for DWP

For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.

A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.

Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit order by location.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.

Security Clearance Requirement

You must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

For meaningful checks to be carried out, you will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. Whilst a lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance, and expectation of UK residency may range from 3 to 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements needed for the role may result in the withdrawal of provisional jobs offers.

For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting

Reasonable Adjustment

At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.

We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How We Recruit, page



Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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
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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : Richard Hanley
  • Email : richard.hanley@dwp.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : Digitalrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles. If you wish to make a complaint, please find further details here https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/how-we-recruit/.

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