NetOps Engineer

NetOps Engineer Pay up to £52,442 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. Would you love the opportunity to install, maintain, upgrade, and continuously improve a large government organisation's operating environment - powering one of the largest digital transformations in Europe? Are you someone who could maintain the ongoing reliability, performance and support of our infrastructure? DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are looking for a NetOps Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital, to assist in the design of Infrastructure services in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles. 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 £195bn 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? The ability to design, implement, administer, and support infrastructure technologies, solutions and services such as AWS and Azure Experience in ensuring that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate network problems. The ability to take responsibility of issues that occur and be able to be proactive in searching for potential problems. Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code, CI/CD pipelines. Gitlab, Ansible, Python, Terraform. You and your role As a NetOps Engineer you will have the ongoing responsibility for the full range of products that make up Network Services. The role will involve creating and developing our DevOps/ NetOps culture in the team as we transition to new ways of working. Working in collaboration with a range of internal/external partners, stakeholders and customers you will ensure the operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability, and quality of DWP Networks. You will actively manage the work backlog and develop reliability improvements as well as leading initiatives to develop the automation of low-value tasks balanced against project delivery demands. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Manchester or Newcastle whichever is most 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 £52,442. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £12,000 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 flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100) 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. 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