About the job

Job summary

We are seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to join our mission-driven team, dedicated to improving financial wellbeing for those in need. In this new role, you will establish and guide our DevOps practices, using Azure Cloud Platform and Azure DevOps for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and building infrastructure for modern frameworks like Next.js and React. Your leadership will be instrumental in blending technical excellence with our social purpose, creating solutions that genuinely make a difference. If you're a tech-savvy professional with a passion for social impact, this is your chance to innovate and inspire in a role that extends beyond technology to touch lives. 

Job description

The Lead DevOps Engineer will report directly to the Software Engineering Manager.   In this role you will be responsible for the following;

• Leading the design and development of our deployment pipelines and automation solutions using Azure and open-source tooling.
• Continuously analyse our DevOps processes and identify opportunities to further automate and refine our deployment practices.
• Design, build and maintain environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Engage collaboratively in an agile environment, working closely with solution architects, technical leads and developers.
• Implementation of services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
• Contribute to low level design and maintain documentation.
• Peer reviewing IaC developed as part of our workflow.
• Able to self manage including keeping technical knowledge up to date.
• Promoting collaborative working, efficiencies and knowledge transfer.
• Actively participating within the wider community of practice; advocating DevOps best practices and sharing knowledge/experience.
• Mentoring and providing guidance to DevOps and Software Developers.
• Leading/facilitating technical discussions and engaging with external delivery partners as appropriate.

Person specification

You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

Essential:

• Build and optimisation of pipelines (ideally in Azure DevOps).
• Provisioning and managing infrastructure through IaC (e.g. ARM templates, Bicep, terraform).
• Highly experienced, working with a range of Azure Cloud Services.
• Commitment to high quality, robust engineering practices.
• Working within an agile development team with experience of productive collaboration with design, testing, product and other digital delivery colleagues.

Desirable:

• A development background, with experience in a language such as Python, Java, C# or PowerShell.
• Experience with JavaScript and building/deploying/scaling React-based applications in the cloud (e.g. Docker / Kubernetes).
• Experience working within a monorepo environment and tooling such as Nrwl NX or turborepo.
• Experience with bash scripting.
• Experience with git version control.
• Experience in a senior/lead role.

If you’re already a MaPS employee, and as part of our Talent Strategy, we’re committed to strengthening opportunities for our people to learn, grow, progress, and thrive. For many of you, this may be preparing and applying for your next role with us, and we're passionate about ensuring you feel supported throughout your internal recruitment experience. Please get in touch if you want to know more about some of the ways in which we could support you by emailing recruitment@maps.org.uk

Benefits

• What Money and Pensions Service can offer you?

  • Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
  • Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary)
  • Interest-free loan to help you buy season tickets for buses and trains
  • Cycle to work Scheme
  • Subsidised eye test & flu jabs
  • Life assurance scheme
  • Give as you earn scheme
  • Employee assistance programme (EAP)
  • PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
  • Enhanced family and sick pay
  • Paid volunteering (2 days a year)
  • Recognition Scheme
  • Discounts portal to numerous retailers

   

Things you need to know

Selection process details

The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is an arm’s-length body sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions. This role is to be appointed under MaPS Terms & Conditions. Full details on the T&C’s are found https://maps.org.uk/

Our policy requires that selection for appointment to the MaPS is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Money and Pensions Service via email: recruitment@maps.org.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.