The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
• Increase saving for, and security in later life
• Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
• Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
• Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity

The purpose of the role is to provide consultancy and engineering support for database technologies to build up, refine and deliver the Department’s database automation, following industry-standard tools, technologies, and best practice.

It will involve trialling new technologies and assessing new functionality in existing technologies around security, monitoring, resilience, the software lifecycle, ongoing management, and technical documentation.

Responsibilities of the Senior Infrastructure Engineer

• Identify and scope valuable pieces of work to advance Data Platforms product offerings in line with our Vision, Mission Statement and Business Plan(s)
• Work well with other team members to deliver that value in a sustainable, organised and observable way
• Develop and maintain a deep and well-rounded knowledge of database technologies and the methods of building and managing them
• Maintain an open, innovative, and curious mindset about the work that we do and the way we interact with the rest of the department

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Knowledge of and experience with database technologies (particularly SQL Server)
• Knowledge of and experience with public cloud technologies (particularly Azure)
• Knowledge of and experience with developing Infrastructure as Code (particularly Ansible, Terraform and Git)
• Knowledge of and experience with agile ways of working Preferred
• Some knowledge of scripting technologies (particularly PowerShell and Python)

If this Senior Infrastructure Engineer role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply and get in touch with Mark.Spencer@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.