# EOI - Senior DevOps Engineer

**Company**: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
**Location**: Manchester, Greater Manchester
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: GBP 43,065 - 56,789 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are transforming DCMS to meet the needs of a modern, delivery-focused department working on some of government’s highest-priority agendas to drive growth, enrich lives and level-up society.

This is a short-term role for a maximum of 1 year, which is available on both level transfer and temporary promotion.

**Role responsibilities:**

- Transform complex technical requirements into an effective and automated DevOps toolchain to enable seamless product delivery.

- Provide strategic technical support to delivery teams, applying deep technical knowledge to solve complex infrastructure and operational problems.

- Design and implement deployment strategies for digital products that are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.

- Lead the automation of systems and the maintenance of development standards across the organization.

- Act as a technical subject matter expert within the team, reporting to the Lead Application Operations Engineer.

**Person specification:**

- **Essential requirements:**

- Service support (Expert level): Proven experience diagnosing and resolving complex live service faults affecting DevOps tooling, environments and deployments, and advising teams on effective support approaches.

- Information security (Practitioner level): Experience designing DevOps solutions and services with appropriate security controls embedded to reduce security risk.

- Modern development standards (Practitioner level): Experience applying modern engineering standards and practices in DevOps work and supporting colleagues to adopt them.

- Systems integration (Practitioner level): Experience defining integration builds and coordinating build activity so that tooling, environments and deployment processes work together, including supporting integration testing.

- Availability and capacity management (Working level): Experience managing service components and environments so they remain available and meet agreed performance measures, with minimal disruption to delivery.

- **Desirable skills:**

- Experience working within an agile environment to deliver impactful, meaningful projects.

- Knowledge of enterprise platform environments used within the department (for example Microsoft enterprise services, including Azure where relevant) to support secure cloud-native delivery.

**Benefits:** Alongside your salary of £43,065, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £12,475 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

- Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working - DCMS staff work on a flexible basis with time spent in offices, and time spent working from home.

- 26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years’ service.

- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.

- Access to the Edenred employee benefits system which offers discounts to popular retailers and access to various useful resources such as financial and savings advice.

- 3 days of paid volunteering leave.

- Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity and adoption leave.

- Staff reward and recognition bonuses that operate throughout the year.

- Occupational sick pay.

- Access to the Employee Assistance Programme which offers staff 24/7 confidential support and resources such as counselling, debt guidance and management advice.

- Active and engaged staff networks to join including the LGBT+, Ethnic Diversity, Mental Health and Wellbeing and Gender Equality Networks.

- Exceptional learning and development opportunities that you can explore alongside your day-to-day work.

- Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme and much more!

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## Skills

### Required
- DevOps
- Service support
- Information security
- Modern development standards
- Systems integration
- Availability and capacity management

### Nice to have
- Agile environment
- Microsoft enterprise services
- Azure

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