EOI - Senior DevOps Engineer

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!