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Senior Application Operations Engineer Pay up to £46,547 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 Application Operations Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital, to provide application operations which deliver continuity of service for our users across DWP Digital 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 £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? Demonstrable ability of building strong relationships within a team and with other stakeholders to ensure service outcomes are achieved. Evidence of successfully implementing improvement initiatives from a technical and process angle. A passion for automation over manual interventions. Problem Solving & Systems Thinking - Proven ability to break down complex problems and think in terms of system architecture; Evidence of ability to resolve complex incidents across multiple systems. Previous experience of managing the technical application support of services including understanding and exposure of the ITIL Service Management Framework to deliver a quality service. You and your role If you're passionate about keeping critical systems running smoothly and love solving complex problems, this could be the role for you. You'll be working with a mix of technologies, from Linux and Windows servers to cloud platforms and databases. making sure our applications are reliable, secure and performing at their best. You'll be the go-to person when things go wrong, helping to fix issues, improve processes and support your colleagues. We work in an agile environment, using ITIL and other best practices to deliver great service to our users. You'll also play a key role in mentoring others, driving improvements and collaborating with a wide range of teams across DWP Digital. Whether it's managing incidents, leading service transitions, or helping new starters settle in, you'll be central to making sure our services run like clockwork. If you're ready to take the lead, share your expertise and make a real impact then apply now. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool 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 £ 46,547 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 flexitime. 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.

Senior Application Operations Engineer Pay up to £46,547 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 Application Operations Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital, to provide application operations which deliver continuity of service for our users across DWP Digital 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 £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? Demonstrable ability of building strong relationships within a team and with other stakeholders to ensure service outcomes are achieved. Evidence of successfully implementing improvement initiatives from a technical and process angle. A passion for automation over manual interventions. Problem Solving & Systems Thinking - Proven ability to break down complex problems and think in terms of system architecture; Evidence of ability to resolve complex incidents across multiple systems. Previous experience of managing the technical application support of services including understanding and exposure of the ITIL Service Management Framework to deliver a quality service. You and your role If you're passionate about keeping critical systems running smoothly and love solving complex problems, this could be the role for you. You'll be working with a mix of technologies, from Linux and Windows servers to cloud platforms and databases. making sure our applications are reliable, secure and performing at their best. You'll be the go-to person when things go wrong, helping to fix issues, improve processes and support your colleagues. We work in an agile environment, using ITIL and other best practices to deliver great service to our users. You'll also play a key role in mentoring others, driving improvements and collaborating with a wide range of teams across DWP Digital. Whether it's managing incidents, leading service transitions, or helping new starters settle in, you'll be central to making sure our services run like clockwork. If you're ready to take the lead, share your expertise and make a real impact then apply now. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool 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 £ 46,547 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 flexitime. 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.

DWP. Digital with Purpose. Are you an experienced Agile Programme Manager? Want to use your skills to support and enable some really big, complex Agile programmes? Can you help up deliver products and services that work better for the millions of DWP users that need them? Looking for great work life balance, including flexible working hours, hybrid working, and flex-friendly policies? Want a pension worth 27.9% of your salary - up to £17,000 a year? We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Agile Programme Manager to join our DWP Digital community. We're delivering a once in a generation transformation of public services. You will work with multiple suppliers to support and manage complex commercial relationships, and work with multiple delivery teams full of the UK's best tech talent. You'll be working on our Digital Health and Disability programme. Our services enable some of the most vulnerable users in society to access the financial support they need, because of their health condition or disability. We're looking for people who are as motivated by that unique purpose as we are. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year, to support millions of daily users. The scale of what we do is outstanding, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us. Delivery. Work. Projects. As our Senior Agile Programme Manager you will work really closely Lead Delivery Manager to support the objectives our of Health & Disability portfolio. That includes hugely important areas of work like Personal Independence Payments (PIP). You'll lead on the co-creation of Statements of Work for supplier teams with Delivery Managers and Supplier Management. You will work with Supplier and Business Management teams to ensure service, headcount, budget and commercial vehicles are in where they need to be. You will support teams in the use of JIRA and Confluence in ways which assure both value delivery and appropriate reporting. This includes encouraging consistency or compliance with appropriate standards, making sure programme artefacts are complete, up to date and available. You'll support our Delivery Managers with ongoing delivery planning activities, ensuring we're working from complete and meaningful consolidated plan And when we need to engage new suppliers and bring in new tools, you will lead on the creation of commercial requirements. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Experience of agile and lean practices- helping high performing teams to continuously improve Share information and setting standards for other teams, using tooling such as Atlassian suite and Mural. You will have experience of: digital funding models, drafting contracts / statements of work, cost models, resourcing, and budget management in line with best practice. Ability to build relationships with a broad range of teams and individuals including: business management, supplier management, technical teams, product managers, senior stakeholders and third-party sub-contractors and suppliers. Communicating with others in a clear, honest and enthusiastic way in order to build trust. Experience working with multiple suppliers to support and manage complex commercial relationships You're able to lead a continual planning process (coping with rapid reprioritisation) in a complex environment. You can identify and manage risks and dependencies in plans across services and coordinate delivery.And onward reporting at Sprint level to support Programme level reporting. Details. Wages. Perks. You'll join us in your choice of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model with a mix of home working and sometime in the office. In return for your skills, we offer competitive pay of up to £60,781. You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 27.9%, worth up to £17,000 a year. You'll get a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising to 31 days over time, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home Family-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 Sports and social activities Working in an award-winning environment and culture Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Click 'Apply' for more information and to start an application on Civil Service Jobs. Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 20th August 2023

Java Engineer (Java, AWS/ Azure, MySQL, MongoDB, Kubernetes) Up to £56,480, 27.1% employer pension contributions, flexi-hours, hybrid hub / home working DWP. Digital with Purpose. DWP is the biggest government department in the UK. Over 20 million people access our services everyday, and we make payments worth over £195bn every year. We're recruiting Java Engineers into our new hub in Birmingham. We want devs and engineers with the skills to design, build and maintain government digital services that really work for the people that need them. You'll write code that changes the face of public services, helps people get the support they need more quickly and easily, and helps transform the future of millions of people. We share our brilliant Birmingham hub environment with colleagues from across DWP and wider government, so it's the perfect place to collaborate, build networks and get stuff done. Delivering World-Class Performance. We want our Java Engineers to work with freedom and autonomy. We write code and make design decisions which shape the future engineering landscape of DWP, and especially of our flagship service Universal Credit. We develop, build and support products and applications as part of multi-functional agile delivery teams, alongside researchers, analysts, designers, architects, testers and more. Together we use the latest and greatest tools and technologies to build applications and products that work for millions of users. You'll be part of a thriving Engineering community of practice, supported by over 200 other engineering experts from across the UK, all united by passion and purpose. We want you to be at your best. We'll give you the tools and time to build your capability, with coaching, mentoring, qualifications and formal learning, meet-ups or whatever else works for you. Send us your CV. We're looking for skills, knowledge and experience of: Java (minimum version 8). Developing on cloud based environments like AWS and Azure. TDD and BDD. SQL and noSQL database applications such as Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB. Building up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment. APIs, RESTful services and Microservice Architectures. Details. Wages. Perks. We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work and collaborate flexibly. We work a hybrid model with 60% home working. We'll pay you up to £56,480. You'll also get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 27.1%, and a generous leave package starting at 26 and rising to 31 days. Our benefits package is built around your work-life balance and includes: Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home Family-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 Sports and social activities Working in an award-winning environment and culture How to Apply: Stage 1: Once we receive your CV we'll send you a coding test, which should be completed and returned within 5 days. Stage 2: We'll assess your CV for evidence of the required skills and experience Stage 3: If successful in the above we'll invite you to interview as soon as possible. Security Clearance Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check. Candidates will need to have at least 3 years and ideally 5 years continuous residency in the UK in order to be submitted for these checks. Candidates who do not meet this requirement will be unable to proceed with an application. Nationality requirements This job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals