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., You must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
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When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line withessential criteriabelow:
(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)., (Lead Criteria) Experience of providing technical leadership and support within a team of Infrastructure Engineers., Experience of providing technical leadership and support within a team of Infrastructure Engineers., You will be asked to do a (10 minutes) presentation on a specific topic. Further details will be provided to candidates invited to interview.

Alongside your salary of 72,664, Department for Work and Pensions contributes 21,050 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
Generous annual leave at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (prorata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 years continuous service.
Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Womens Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
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