Location Aberdeen, Ashford (Kent), Basingstoke, Birmingham, Bootle, Bristol, Buxton, Cardiff, Carlisle, Carmarthen, Chelmsford, Crewe, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, Milton Keynes, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxted, Plymouth, Sheffield, Wrexham, York About the job Job summary At the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), we believe everyone has the right to come home safe and well from their job. We use world-leading science to prevent work-related death, injury and ill health. We don't just inspect and investigate; we also provide advice and training to organisations. All this together means we help keep people safe, boost productivity, support the UK economy and contribute to a fairer society. Technology, data, and digital services underpins everything that HSE does. We are a knowledge organisation, with a wealth of experience in keeping people safe. It is the responsibility of the Information and Technology Services (ITS) Division to ensure that everyone in the organisation can access our data and information, to share it and to use it to make effective decisions. We support over 3000 colleagues working in a hybrid style at home and in 26 offices across Great Britain. Our services keep inspectors functioning effectively and efficiently on industrial sites nationwide, from oil platforms in the North Sea to our deepest mines and quarries. Working pattern Due to the nature of the work undertaken, this post is available on a full-time basis only. Travel Please be advised you may be required to travel to other HSE Offices on occasion, depending on project work needs and to attend HSE HQ in Redgrave Court, Bootle, for workshops and Team meetings, as business requires. These trips may occasionally require overnight stays. For details of HSE locations please see here HSE Offices Job description We have an opportunity to recruit a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the DevOps Team in the ITS Division. The DevOps Team comprises of internal and outsourced capabilities. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will thrive and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or many projects. You will be supporting existing cloud-based services, assisting in the design, and delivery of new cloud-based services as we expand HSE's digital services in Azure, adhering to GDS principles and using Agile principles. Key Responsibilities: As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will help to develop the capability of HSEs newly formed multi-skilled DevOps Team to manage the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate. You will help establish and then operate DevOps processes, establishing a regime and culture of continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD). You will work closely with the development and test communities as we strive to automate our processes and implement new tooling. You will support the design, implementation and management of solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable and maintainable within our cloud environment. You will deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE. You are required to work a 37 hour week based on a 5 day working week and 7.4 hours day. The working week is between 07:00 and 19:00 Monday to Friday. There is the possibility of Saturday working between 07:00 and 19:00. As far as possible your Line Manager will agree your working pattern(s) with you including any Saturday working. There may be times when you are required to work additional hours and/or a late shift to accommodate operational needs or unplanned events. Where it is necessary for operational reasons to vary your 'normal' working pattern(s), you will be notified by your manager in advance. You may be required to be on an on-call rota for which you will receive an out of hours payment. Person specification Essential Skills & Criteria: Experience of implementing and administering cloud-based solutions in Microsoft Azure, utilising IaaS or PaaS based services. Experience of building and optimising CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps. Experience using scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell). Experience of creating and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Bicep, ARM templates) in a source control management system. Experience of managing the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate. Experience of setting up monitoring and alerting of live cloud services. Experience of Line Managing junior members of staff
04/12/2025
Full time
Location Aberdeen, Ashford (Kent), Basingstoke, Birmingham, Bootle, Bristol, Buxton, Cardiff, Carlisle, Carmarthen, Chelmsford, Crewe, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, Milton Keynes, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxted, Plymouth, Sheffield, Wrexham, York About the job Job summary At the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), we believe everyone has the right to come home safe and well from their job. We use world-leading science to prevent work-related death, injury and ill health. We don't just inspect and investigate; we also provide advice and training to organisations. All this together means we help keep people safe, boost productivity, support the UK economy and contribute to a fairer society. Technology, data, and digital services underpins everything that HSE does. We are a knowledge organisation, with a wealth of experience in keeping people safe. It is the responsibility of the Information and Technology Services (ITS) Division to ensure that everyone in the organisation can access our data and information, to share it and to use it to make effective decisions. We support over 3000 colleagues working in a hybrid style at home and in 26 offices across Great Britain. Our services keep inspectors functioning effectively and efficiently on industrial sites nationwide, from oil platforms in the North Sea to our deepest mines and quarries. Working pattern Due to the nature of the work undertaken, this post is available on a full-time basis only. Travel Please be advised you may be required to travel to other HSE Offices on occasion, depending on project work needs and to attend HSE HQ in Redgrave Court, Bootle, for workshops and Team meetings, as business requires. These trips may occasionally require overnight stays. For details of HSE locations please see here HSE Offices Job description We have an opportunity to recruit a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the DevOps Team in the ITS Division. The DevOps Team comprises of internal and outsourced capabilities. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will thrive and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or many projects. You will be supporting existing cloud-based services, assisting in the design, and delivery of new cloud-based services as we expand HSE's digital services in Azure, adhering to GDS principles and using Agile principles. Key Responsibilities: As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will help to develop the capability of HSEs newly formed multi-skilled DevOps Team to manage the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate. You will help establish and then operate DevOps processes, establishing a regime and culture of continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD). You will work closely with the development and test communities as we strive to automate our processes and implement new tooling. You will support the design, implementation and management of solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable and maintainable within our cloud environment. You will deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE. You are required to work a 37 hour week based on a 5 day working week and 7.4 hours day. The working week is between 07:00 and 19:00 Monday to Friday. There is the possibility of Saturday working between 07:00 and 19:00. As far as possible your Line Manager will agree your working pattern(s) with you including any Saturday working. There may be times when you are required to work additional hours and/or a late shift to accommodate operational needs or unplanned events. Where it is necessary for operational reasons to vary your 'normal' working pattern(s), you will be notified by your manager in advance. You may be required to be on an on-call rota for which you will receive an out of hours payment. Person specification Essential Skills & Criteria: Experience of implementing and administering cloud-based solutions in Microsoft Azure, utilising IaaS or PaaS based services. Experience of building and optimising CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps. Experience using scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell). Experience of creating and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Bicep, ARM templates) in a source control management system. Experience of managing the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate. Experience of setting up monitoring and alerting of live cloud services. Experience of Line Managing junior members of staff
Location Exeter, South West England, EX1 3PB About the job Job summary The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for Industrial Placements 2026. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, commencing at the start of July 2026, developing your skills and knowledge and ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience with us. You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements all over the Met Office and understand what career opportunities are on offer at the Met Office after you graduate. We're looking for a Interaction Designer Industrial Placement 2026 to help us make a difference to our planet. As our Interaction Designer Industrial Placement 2026 , the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work. As an Industrial Placement, we would expect you to attend the office once a week as a minimum. Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone. World changing work From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are. We're a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact We're experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making We're better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers Job description Your world of expertise Our Industrial Placement scheme offers ambitious and capable undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside diverse and highly skilled experts in their field. You'll be working on projects that really matter and will make a difference. The Met Office purpose is to help people stay safe and thrive. To achieve this, we need to understand the people we serve and their needs. The user-centred design team at the Met Office includes user researchers, interaction designers, content designers, service designers and accessibility specialists, working across different areas of the business to help solve real world problems by putting the user at the heart of Met Office products and services. The Industrial Placement for interaction design will work closely with the interaction designers and service designers in the team to provide support ensuring that our products and services meet the needs of users. They will support with discovering the best way to let users interact with our products, identifying user issues and generating multiple solutions to a problem. They will be involved in activities to enable our user-centred design team, including maintaining design systems and guidance documentation, providing support with user recruitment and testing, and advocating user-centred design across the business. Your key duties The Interaction Design Industrial Placement will: provide support for user-centred design teams including user recruitment, note taking, documenting design decisions, maintaining design systems and guidance documentation be supported to work collaboratively with teams, understanding the importance of team dynamics, collaboration and feedback understand the importance of using data and evidence to make design decisions and use this information to collaboratively come up with solutions to problems recommend design decisions and be able to describe the reasoning behind them• follow direction to create prototypes to demonstrate and test potential solutions work in an open-minded and iterative way follow the Government Digital Service Standards and user-centred design best practice guidelines to ensure solutions are focused on user needs communicate effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues, supporting multidisciplinary discussions be an advocate for the UCD team within the Met Office and be able to explain why interaction design and user-centred design is important be part of the UCD community of practice and champion user-centred design Person specification Essential Criteria, skills and experience: Lead Criteria: Awareness of prototyping. You can explain what prototyping is, and why and when to use it and are passionate about putting this into practice. Experience using design software (such as Figma.) Evidence-based design: You are passionate about creating designs for digital products and understand the value of using evidence to inform design decisions. Agile thinking. You understand the benefits of agile working and the different roles in a multidisciplinary team. You are aligned with the value 'we keep evolving' and are willing to iterate your work. User focus and advocacy. You can explain how user-centred practices can be used to build products that 'keep evolving' to changing user behaviour and needs. You are willing to champion a user-focused approach with your colleagues. Better together. You are able to communicate effectively with stakeholders and team members and present design decisions and ideas. You can be an active member and advocate of the user-centred design community. Studying in digital design or similar. The panel may perform a preliminary sift of the lead criteria as indicated above.
04/12/2025
Seasonal
Location Exeter, South West England, EX1 3PB About the job Job summary The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for Industrial Placements 2026. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, commencing at the start of July 2026, developing your skills and knowledge and ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience with us. You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements all over the Met Office and understand what career opportunities are on offer at the Met Office after you graduate. We're looking for a Interaction Designer Industrial Placement 2026 to help us make a difference to our planet. As our Interaction Designer Industrial Placement 2026 , the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work. As an Industrial Placement, we would expect you to attend the office once a week as a minimum. Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone. World changing work From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are. We're a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact We're experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making We're better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers Job description Your world of expertise Our Industrial Placement scheme offers ambitious and capable undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside diverse and highly skilled experts in their field. You'll be working on projects that really matter and will make a difference. The Met Office purpose is to help people stay safe and thrive. To achieve this, we need to understand the people we serve and their needs. The user-centred design team at the Met Office includes user researchers, interaction designers, content designers, service designers and accessibility specialists, working across different areas of the business to help solve real world problems by putting the user at the heart of Met Office products and services. The Industrial Placement for interaction design will work closely with the interaction designers and service designers in the team to provide support ensuring that our products and services meet the needs of users. They will support with discovering the best way to let users interact with our products, identifying user issues and generating multiple solutions to a problem. They will be involved in activities to enable our user-centred design team, including maintaining design systems and guidance documentation, providing support with user recruitment and testing, and advocating user-centred design across the business. Your key duties The Interaction Design Industrial Placement will: provide support for user-centred design teams including user recruitment, note taking, documenting design decisions, maintaining design systems and guidance documentation be supported to work collaboratively with teams, understanding the importance of team dynamics, collaboration and feedback understand the importance of using data and evidence to make design decisions and use this information to collaboratively come up with solutions to problems recommend design decisions and be able to describe the reasoning behind them• follow direction to create prototypes to demonstrate and test potential solutions work in an open-minded and iterative way follow the Government Digital Service Standards and user-centred design best practice guidelines to ensure solutions are focused on user needs communicate effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues, supporting multidisciplinary discussions be an advocate for the UCD team within the Met Office and be able to explain why interaction design and user-centred design is important be part of the UCD community of practice and champion user-centred design Person specification Essential Criteria, skills and experience: Lead Criteria: Awareness of prototyping. You can explain what prototyping is, and why and when to use it and are passionate about putting this into practice. Experience using design software (such as Figma.) Evidence-based design: You are passionate about creating designs for digital products and understand the value of using evidence to inform design decisions. Agile thinking. You understand the benefits of agile working and the different roles in a multidisciplinary team. You are aligned with the value 'we keep evolving' and are willing to iterate your work. User focus and advocacy. You can explain how user-centred practices can be used to build products that 'keep evolving' to changing user behaviour and needs. You are willing to champion a user-focused approach with your colleagues. Better together. You are able to communicate effectively with stakeholders and team members and present design decisions and ideas. You can be an active member and advocate of the user-centred design community. Studying in digital design or similar. The panel may perform a preliminary sift of the lead criteria as indicated above.
Location This role may be located in one of the following locations; Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle. Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here. Please note that for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, this role will be based at Benton Park View from September 2025, and then at 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027. About the job Job summary Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'. Do you want work collaboratively designing modern IT architecture for some of the largest digital transformations in Europe? Do you want to help support millions of our claimants by designing user-friendly digital services? If so, these roles may be perfect for you! We are seeking an experienced Lead Technical Architect specialising in Collaboration and Communication technology, who possesses the expertise to operate effectively within complex digital environments. The successful candidate will support key initiatives within Technology Services by providing leadership on relevant products and services. You will collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders across DWP Digital to support the delivery of solutions, creating options and recommendations, and providing expert advice to drive technology choices. The roles will include the design, oversight and architecture governance of IT solutions that support DWP customers. This is an exciting time to join us. You'll shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional products and services that work for everyone. Job description A Lead Technical Architect (Solutions) leads at the highest level and is responsible for making sure the strategy is agreed and followed. At this role level, you will: Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations. Proactively seek opportunities for digital transformation. Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies. Inspire other architects and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the organisation. Be responsible for governance, solving complex and high risk issues or delivering architecture design. Person specification When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below: Architecture design across on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments involving networking, security, presentation, middleware, database, and integration aspects. Architecture design informed through use of principles, patterns, technical radars, practices and standards. Architecture design working with project delivery teams within agile, waterfall and hybrid environments throughout the lifecycle - from concept to go-live. Translating business requirements into technical solutions with traceability that can be demonstrated to stakeholders. Architecture design through use of architecture modelling techniques and tools to devise and represent. Communication & Collaboration Technologies (across all device types and operating systems, in a multi-tenant, multi-location environment), especially expertise in Microsoft 365 solutions (SharePoint, Teams and Copilot), Adobe Products, whiteboarding and File Store solutions. Expertise in email technologies including Exchange, email cloud threat management systems. Information/Data Security, Governance, Management & Compliance (including Data Privacy, Data Lifecycle Management, Legislation, Discovery, Disaster Recovery & Backup including tooling e.g. Sentinel, Log Analytics & Purview) If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact .
04/12/2025
Full time
Location This role may be located in one of the following locations; Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle. Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here. Please note that for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, this role will be based at Benton Park View from September 2025, and then at 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027. About the job Job summary Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'. Do you want work collaboratively designing modern IT architecture for some of the largest digital transformations in Europe? Do you want to help support millions of our claimants by designing user-friendly digital services? If so, these roles may be perfect for you! We are seeking an experienced Lead Technical Architect specialising in Collaboration and Communication technology, who possesses the expertise to operate effectively within complex digital environments. The successful candidate will support key initiatives within Technology Services by providing leadership on relevant products and services. You will collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders across DWP Digital to support the delivery of solutions, creating options and recommendations, and providing expert advice to drive technology choices. The roles will include the design, oversight and architecture governance of IT solutions that support DWP customers. This is an exciting time to join us. You'll shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional products and services that work for everyone. Job description A Lead Technical Architect (Solutions) leads at the highest level and is responsible for making sure the strategy is agreed and followed. At this role level, you will: Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations. Proactively seek opportunities for digital transformation. Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies. Inspire other architects and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the organisation. Be responsible for governance, solving complex and high risk issues or delivering architecture design. Person specification When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below: Architecture design across on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments involving networking, security, presentation, middleware, database, and integration aspects. Architecture design informed through use of principles, patterns, technical radars, practices and standards. Architecture design working with project delivery teams within agile, waterfall and hybrid environments throughout the lifecycle - from concept to go-live. Translating business requirements into technical solutions with traceability that can be demonstrated to stakeholders. Architecture design through use of architecture modelling techniques and tools to devise and represent. Communication & Collaboration Technologies (across all device types and operating systems, in a multi-tenant, multi-location environment), especially expertise in Microsoft 365 solutions (SharePoint, Teams and Copilot), Adobe Products, whiteboarding and File Store solutions. Expertise in email technologies including Exchange, email cloud threat management systems. Information/Data Security, Governance, Management & Compliance (including Data Privacy, Data Lifecycle Management, Legislation, Discovery, Disaster Recovery & Backup including tooling e.g. Sentinel, Log Analytics & Purview) If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact .
