Infrastructure Engineer- Automation
Department for Work and Pensions
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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 (HCS) as an Automation Infrastructure Engineer at a time of significant transformation, as we look to drive the adoption of Public Cloud services in line with Government Digital Service (GDS) and DWP’s own strategic hosting architectural principles.
The HCS team design, build and run all DWP hosting infrastructure including Public Cloud and On-Premises hosting, and help product and service owners to transition to the Cloud.
The vision for HCS is to support the wider DWP vision of ‘Digital by Default’ by:
- Providing an end-to-end ‘multi-cloud’ hosted service for DWP’s Product Development Units.
- Providing a securely connected hosting service, removing DWP’s reliance on traditional hosting solutions and contracts.
- Standardising, simplifying and automating with underpinning processes, training and tools to accelerate delivery.
Job description
As an Automation Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the next generation of Ansible Automation Platform.
You will be building standardisation of service offerings for consumption. Identifying and automating toil where appropriate, and ensuring solutions are repeatable, scalable, resilient, and highly available.
Key activities include:
- Working collaboratively to develop and maintain a shared AAP (Ansible Automation Platform) solution in public cloud.
- Support and maintain shared tooling in our on-premise environment including Gitlab and AAP.
- Provide product on-boarding support to our end users and business units.
- Identify and implement optimal solutions for our tools and our end users, including monitoring and continuous improvement.
- Perform application patching and maintenance on all our products.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- You will work with Engineering Leads, helping to ensure the systems are fit for purpose. With a focus on stability, availability, and quality adhering to industry and organisational standards and best practice.
- Develop, implement, and maintain our products to ensure delivery of professional excellence. Successfully deliver high quality outcomes, identify risks, and resolve issues efficiently, developing suggestions for improvements.
- Have a good understanding of the technical concepts required for the role and understand how these fit into the wider technical landscape.
Person specification
When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
- Experience using Linux Operating Systems.
- Knowledge of automation and orchestration technologies.
- Experience of hybrid cloud.
- Experience in a large scale organisation using source control management (SCM) tools such as Gitlab or Github.
- Experience using configuration and infrastructure management tooling such as Ansible and Terraform.
- Experience of working with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact richard.hanley@dwp.gov.uk.
Benefits
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 £40,201 - £43,347.
The maximum salary for the grade is £43,347, however a Digital Allowance of up to £9,095 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.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
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.
Stage 1: Application
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. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
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/CV 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.
Sift dates to be confirmed.
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.
Interviews will take place from early November 2024.
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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.
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
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.
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
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Job contact :
- Name : Richard Hanley
- Email : richard.hanley@dwp.gov.uk
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- Email : digitialrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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