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Pay up to £89,995, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for Lead DevOps Engineer. You will lead a multi-functional agile delivery team supporting the DevOps Engineers to build in quality, using industry best practices, to the products that make up services used by millions of people.

Our teams use fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, the problems we have to solve are rich and complex, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Expertise in defining and implementing local or team-based standards, tools, and techniques, ensuring compliance and technical integrity across all project stages. You select the appropriate development methods and provide expert technical guidance to stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle and ensures that practitioners adhere to this. You manage resources to ensure that the systems integration function works effectively.
• Strong track record of applying modern standards and best practices appropriately. You take ownership of mentoring, coaching, and guiding others to uphold technical excellence within teams.
• Proven capability in identifying and capitalising on opportunities through emerging digital technologies to enhance capabilities in alignment with evolving business objectives.
• Experience in setting organisation-wide release policies for both development and operations, ensuring effective service transition through robust management processes, tools, automation, validation, and configuration controls..

You and your role

You'll be working in a DWP DevSecOps team, helping to protect DWP and out users against threats.

Do you love working with new tech? Can you use new techniques to defend against global cyber threats? Are you an engaging leader with advanced technical and engineering skills?

As a Lead DevOps Engineer you will have a proven experience in the development, deployment and support of software applications and services that are focused on stability, availability and quality.

You will have the opportunity to promote technical evolution within our organisation, and to find, test, agree and adopt emerging technologies.

You will also develop and support our Engineering capability by rewarding high performers, shaping career paths and recruiting talent to the organisation.

As a Lead DevOps you will make complex decisions, involving a wide range of solutions, possibly affecting several work areas within the organisation.

Coming in as a Lead DevOps Engineer you will be working closely with our senior practitioners, sharing information, providing advice and support around technical choices, implementation approach, resourcing an identifying skills gaps.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location : You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Manchester or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working : We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and sometime collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay : We offer pay of up to £89,995.

Pension : You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £ 21,050 per year.

Holidays : A generous leave package starting at 26 days and rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

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

Process

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Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

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Full-time

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Job function

Information Technology

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Software Development

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