Site Reliability Engineers (On-Premises Hosting)
Recruiter
DWP
Listed on
22nd October 2019
Location
Blackpool
Salary/Rate
£54825 - £78605
Salary Notes
circa 27% pension contributions, flexible working, work life balance and great benefits
Type
Permanent
Start Date
ASAP
This job has now expired please search on the home page to find live IT Jobs.
Site Reliability Engineers (On-Premises Hosting) We're hiring Lead and Senior Reliability Engineers with a background in On-Premises Hosting to work on one of the biggest digital transformations in Europe. Here at DWP we're applying the latest digital thinking to the large heritage services that still handle huge volumes of our customer's pension and benefit payments. The department is investing heavily in SRE to maintain and modernise these services. It's a unique challenge. For us, SRE is about applying software engineering principles and practices to the world of service delivery and operations. It's about prioritising reliability over new features, making sure services are stable, secure and available for when our millions of users need them most. You and your role This is an SRE role with a specific focus on On-Premises Hosting. You might be an experienced software engineer, with some helpful consultancy background, able to apply software engineering techniques to solve IT Operations and Infrastructure problems. Or you could already be working in DevOps or SRE, looking for a new challenge with real scale, purpose and complexity. You'll find that here, along with a huge, diverse portfolio of projects and programmes with the power to improve the lives of real people. A hands-on engineering leader, you'll have chance to develop and implement best practice across SRE. You drive continuous improvement, while maintaining application capacity and performance. Scripting to automate and design out failures before they happen, you and your teams will create ultra-scalable, ultra-reliable systems and high quality application code for DWP. Our SRE practice combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. We make sure that our SREs are involved from the initial application idea all the way through the application lifecycle to decommissioning. What skills, knowledge and experience are we looking for? DWP operate a Hybrid Cloud Platform incorporating Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure and On Premise Hosting (OPH). In this role we're looking for someone with a background in On-Premises Hosting. VMware - vsphere (6 / 6.5) OVM (Oracle platform) Active Directory Linux Rhel 7 Windows 2012 / 2016 Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Artifactory, Nexus, Nexus Experience with Jenkins / GitLab Experience in Git for code management Experience with Application Insights Experience with ServiceNow or similar ITIL tools Experience with Dynatrace or similar APM tools Experience of Containers/Docker/Kubernetes is not essential but is beneficial You should also have experience with Agile/DevOps delivery methodologies and best practice. Where You'll Work You'll join our team in one of our digital hubs in either Blackpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. We're easy-to-reach with great facilities. You will work alongside people who care passionately about public service, making a difference and delivering for our customers. Few other organisations globally provide the same opportunity to apply next-generation digital technology on a massive scale to issues which touch the lives of so many. We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality. Our Offer In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £78,605 for Lead Engineers and up to £68,292 for Senior Engineers. You can apply for both roles or specify a preference. We also offer a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of around 27%, and a generous leave allowance. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Flexible working and family friendly policies Volunteering and charitable giving 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 Sports and social activities Learning and training opportunities, including coaching, mentoring, events, community meet ups and lots more Clear career paths and opportunities to progressHOW TO APPLY: For further information and to start an application click apply now.
