Description:
As a Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer you will be an expert in your field, skilled in multiple disciplines, a role model in Infrastructure operations and have proven experience in the design, development and support of infrastructure services.
You will lead a team of senior infrastructure engineers and provide guidance and support for cloud engineers in your area, ensuring they build products and services using industry standards and following DWP good practice.
You will be responsible for defining medium to long term strategies for product lines, defining guidelines for the engineering community and leading their adoption across teams in order to deliver quality infrastructure solutions.
You will have solid experience of the full application development lifecycle, including supporting live service.
Job description
- Responsible for ensuring services/solutions being delivered are aligned to departmental and user needs, deliver value for money, are of high quality and are technically stable.
- Lead on delivering architectural and roadmap developments in own accountable area
- Drive innovation in ways of working throughout the team and encourage experimentation where opportunities arise.
- Promote a mindset of continuous improvement across the team and peers across the organisation.
- Act as an escalation point for service-related incidents.
- Monitor and take part in on-call rotations, ensuring applicable services and products are supported out of hours.
- Responsible for the leadership of engineering employees, providing expert advice or dealing with complex problems.
- Set the strategic direction to maintain pace with the wider industry, by defining criteria for personal development in the context of cloud engineering
- Department representative acting as a liaison with external bodies and third parties, promoting good practice and process, and encouraging adoption across the engineering community.
- Make complex decisions, involving a wide range of solutions, possibly affecting a number of work areas within the organisation.
- Work closely with other senior leaders, sharing information, providing advice and support around technical choices and implementation approach.
Person specification
When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
- (Lead Criteria) Experience of providing technical leadership and support within a team of Infrastructure Engineers.
- Substantial experience of Azure
- Significant experience of working with networking including DNS, NSGs, VNETS etc.
- Significant experience of scripting languages for example Terraform and Python.
- Substantial experience of version control systems such as Git, Gitlab CI, Gitlab Dedicated.
- Significant experience of working in an agile environment building, deploying, supporting and operating cloud applications (in particular Azure).