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Pay up to £68,517 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions. Hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are looking for a talented and highly skilled Infrastructure Engineer with experience in Kubernetes platforms such as EKS and AKS to join our community of tech experts.
We're using 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, helping people into work and making payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
Role Overview
You'll be working closely with architects, engineers and delivery teams to bring cloud‑hosted services to life while ensuring we stay aligned with our technical and security standards. This is a hands‑on role where you’ll manage and improve public cloud platforms, support junior team members, and help resolve incidents when things go wrong. It’s an opportunity to make a real impact in a large‑scale, fast‑moving tech environment.
What skills, knowledge and significant experience will you need?
* Lead Criteria – Managing and deploying applications to managed Kubernetes platforms such as EKS and AKS.
* Cloud compute, storage and configuration, ensuring solutions are repeatable, scalable, resilient and highly available.
* Use and administration of source‑code management systems such as GitLab, including writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
* Writing Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) using Terraform and Config‑as‑Code (CaC) using Ansible. CloudFormation desirable.
* Identifying and automating toil where appropriate, to improve efficiency, increase reliability and reduce repetitive manual tasks.
* Working within Service and Delivery management frameworks (ITIL – Incident, Problem, Change, and Agile methodologies).
* Influential with strong communication and leadership skills.
Benefits
* Hybrid model – spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face‑to‑face in a hub.
* Competitive pay of up to £68,517.
* Brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth over £16,000 per year.
* Leave package starting at 26 days, rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flex‑time.
* 19 public holidays.
* Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100).
* Flexible working, flexible hours and flex‑friendly policies.
* Time off for volunteering and charitable giving.
* Opportunity to bring your authentic self to work with "I Can Be Me in DWP".
* Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more.
* Interest‑free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket.
* Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
Process
Apply: Complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There will be full instructions when you click through.
Interview: A single‑stage online interview.
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