Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Hybrid Cloud

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Pay up to £73,305 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 Infrastructure Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital, to support the implementation and operation of Cloud hosted products and services. 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 £280bn 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? - Experience enabling engineering teams to adopt and apply standards, policies and technical frameworks that promote consistency, compliance and engineering excellence across multiple disciplines. - Significant experience of using and administering source code management systems such as GitLab, including the development, maintenance and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines. - Significant experience of developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Configuration as Code (CaC) using Ansible. Experience of CloudFormation is desirable. - Significant experience of administering and supporting Linux operating systems, including RHEL and Debian, within enterprise scale environments. - Significant experience of working within Service and Delivery Management frameworks, including ITIL practices such as Incident, Problem and Change Management, alongside Agile delivery methodologies. - Significant experience of leading, coaching and developing engineers and technical teams, providing technical direction, building capability, and driving the adoption of engineering standards and best practices to deliver high quality outcomes. You and your role As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you'll help build and support the cloud platforms that keep critical services running. You'll work with teams across the organisation to migrate and modernise their Ansible and GitLab environments, automate repetitive tasks, improve reliability and performance, and solve complex technical challenges before they impact users. It's a role where you'll shape the future of our cloud services while helping others develop their skills along the way. 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 £73,205 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: - 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. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: - DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards - Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 - Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 - Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards 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.