Senior Backup and Recovery Engineer
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 an outstanding Senior Backup and Recovery Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital, to assist in the design of Infrastructure services in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles.
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. 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, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
Hands on experience in Implementation, Migration, Operations and Support of Backup applications.
Use of Rubrik backup solutions across multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, OCI GCP) and on-premises infrastructure and experience of Integration of Rubrik with external platforms (e.g. ServiceNow, Splunk, vSphere, Azure AD) using REST APIs and automation tools (Ansible).
Managing Cloud compute, storage, and configurations, ensuring solutions are repeatable, scalable, resilient, and highly available.
Service management frameworks (Risk, ITIL - Incident, Problem, Change and SLAs).
Producing and rapidly delivering minimum viable solutions, results focused with ability to prioritise the most impactful work.
Regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, DORA and their organisational impact. Support audit and regulatory compliance efforts related to data protection.
You and your role
We're on the lookout for someone who's passionate about building and maintaining robust IT infrastructure. If you know your way around backup and recovery in both cloud and on-prem environments and you care about stability, resilience and security then this is the role for you.
You'll be working alongside a talented bunch of architects, engineers and delivery teams to support the tech behind some of the UK's most important public services. It's a big job with real impact, think enterprise-scale systems, but in the heart of government.
You'll help design and run backup solutions, keep services secure and available and lead the charge when things go wrong, making sure systems bounce back quickly. You'll also support junior colleagues, work with Linux and Windows and get stuck into service reviews, audits and improvement plans.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location:
You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle, whichever is more convenient for you.
Hybrid Working:
We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.
Pay:
We offer competitive pay of up to
£
68,517
Pension:
You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth
28.97%, worth over
£16,000
per year.
Holidays:
A generous 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 flexitime. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.
We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
An award-winning environment and culture:
Employer of the Year 2023
(Women In IT Awards),
Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023
(Digital 100)
Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
Time off volunteering and charitable giving
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, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
Process:
We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages:
Apply:
complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
Interview:
a single stage interview online.
CLICK APPLY
for more information and to start your application.
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