Job details

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:

• Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
• Increase saving for, and security in later life
• Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
• Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
• Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity 

As a DevOps Engineer your main responsibilities will be: 

• 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.
• 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.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Python – Level 3
• RHEL, Terraform, Ansible, Git, Gitlab CI – Level 2
• Docker, PodMan, AWS, Azure – Level 2
• Linux Operating Systems, Bash – Level 2
• NGINX, SonarQube, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Helm, Deploying, supporting, patching, API’s, Microservices, Kubernetes, ISTIO – Level 2
• Convert technical requirements into solutions – Level 2
• Modify and maintain legacy systems and code, Standardise systems and code, Evolve systems and code, Automated Testing – Level 1.
• User Testing – Level 1 

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Akanksha.rai@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

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.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

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.

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