This is a short-term role for a maximum of 1 year, which is available on both level transfer and temporary promotion.

Role responsibilities:

• Transform complex technical requirements into an effective and automated DevOps toolchain to enable seamless product delivery.
• Provide strategic technical support to delivery teams, applying deep technical knowledge to solve complex infrastructure and operational problems.
• Design and implement deployment strategies for digital products that are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.
• Lead the automation of systems and the maintenance of development standards across the organization.
• Act as a technical subject matter expert within the team, reporting to the Lead Application Operations Engineer.

Person specification:

• Essential requirements:
• Service support (Expert level): Proven experience diagnosing and resolving complex live service faults affecting DevOps tooling, environments and deployments, and advising teams on effective support approaches.
• Information security (Practitioner level): Experience designing DevOps solutions and services with appropriate security controls embedded to reduce security risk.
• Modern development standards (Practitioner level): Experience applying modern engineering standards and practices in DevOps work and supporting colleagues to adopt them.
• Systems integration (Practitioner level): Experience defining integration builds and coordinating build activity so that tooling, environments and deployment processes work together, including supporting integration testing.
• Availability and capacity management (Working level): Experience managing service components and environments so they remain available and meet agreed performance measures, with minimal disruption to delivery.
• Desirable skills:
• Experience working within an agile environment to deliver impactful, meaningful projects.
• Knowledge of enterprise platform environments used within the department (for example Microsoft enterprise services, including Azure where relevant) to support secure cloud-native delivery.

Benefits: Alongside your salary of £43,065, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £12,475 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

• Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working - DCMS staff work on a flexible basis with time spent in offices, and time spent working from home.
• 26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years’ service.
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Access to the Edenred employee benefits system which offers discounts to popular retailers and access to various useful resources such as financial and savings advice.
• 3 days of paid volunteering leave.
• Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity and adoption leave.
• Staff reward and recognition bonuses that operate throughout the year.
• Occupational sick pay.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme which offers staff 24/7 confidential support and resources such as counselling, debt guidance and management advice.
• Active and engaged staff networks to join including the LGBT+, Ethnic Diversity, Mental Health and Wellbeing and Gender Equality Networks.
• Exceptional learning and development opportunities that you can explore alongside your day-to-day work.
• Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme and much more!

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As Infrastructure Engineer, you will act as a technical leader balancing strategic oversight with hands-on guidance. You will collaborate with Technical Architects to turn complex designs into live operations, manage third-party services, and direct a team of specialists to deliver critical infrastructure programmes across the service life cycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage third-party infrastructure services and provide expert technical guidance to develop architectural solutions across the product life cycle.
• Collaborate with technical architects and specialists to translate high-level designs into live, stable operational environments.
• Drive the successful execution of infrastructure programmes and projects to meet core organisational objectives.
• Direct and lead infrastructure specialist teams in building, managing, and maintaining solutions in strict accordance with departmental policies.
• Ensure internal user services and public-facing services are underpinned by infrastructure designed, built, and supported to exceptionally high standards.
• Act as a senior technical leader within IT Operations, champion engineering standards and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Provide regular updates to the Head of Technology Operations & Strategy regarding project progress and infrastructure stability.

Person specification

• Lead engineering teams to design, implement, administer, and support complex infrastructure services.
• Apply modern engineering standards and practices, ensuring consistent team adoption.
• Anticipate upcoming technology changes and advise on their operational implications.
• Take full accountability for technical issues and proactively solve problems to improve user outcomes.
• Diagnose root causes across compute, storage, network, and software, while investigating recurring trends to embed preventative actions.

Desirable skills:

• Extensive working knowledge of public cloud platforms, specifically Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience implementing and supporting Zero Trust access management controls across a mixed cloud estate.
• Experience overseeing the build, configuration, and support of end-user devices across a diverse range of technology vendors.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £56,582, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £16,391 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. We offer a wide range of benefits, including:

• Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working
• 26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years’ service
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Access to the Edenred employee benefits system
• 3 days of paid volunteering leave
• Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity and adoption leave
• Staff reward and recognition bonuses
• Occupational sick pay
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme

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This is a short-term role for a maximum of 1 year, which is available on both level transfer and temporary promotion.

We are seeking a Cyber Monitoring Engineer and Analyst. You will be at the forefront of safeguarding our digital assets and data. With a good understanding of the complexities of cyber security, you will be a key part of our cyber team, working with the team to monitor the ever-evolving threat landscape.

The role is critical in monitoring, detecting, analysing, and responding to security incidents and threats with precision. Your awareness in security technologies and incident response procedures will be pivotal in protecting our critical systems and data.

Leveraging Azure cybersecurity tools, especially Azure Sentinel, you will ensure vigilant incident and event monitoring. Working will collaborate closely with a team to maintain and enhance our security posture.

The main aspects of the role will be:

• Participate in security testing and monitoring.
• Manage security logs, identifying log sources, collect and store logs.
• Correlate and triage security incidents
• Cyber Incident response planning and preparation
• Cyber Incident detection, investigation and analysis
• Cyber Incident containment, eradication and recovery
• Cyber Incident post incident activity and reporting
• Development and implementation of Automation techniques

The ideal candidate would have the following skills:

Essential requirements:

• Experience with Cyber Incident detection, investigation and analysis using Microsoft Sentinel or similar SIEM
• Experience with and understanding of security logs including identifying log sources, collect and store logs.
• An analytical mindset and apply risk-based decisions using the output from security tools
• Involvement in correlating and triage of security incidents
• Understanding of Cyber Incident response planning and preparation
• Understanding of Cyber Incident containment, eradication and recovery
• Understanding of Cyber Incident post incident activity and reporting

Desirable skills:

• An understanding of cyber security tools including SIEM/SOAR, CASBs, EDRs and cloud-native tools.
• Ability to develop and tune detection content, and assist in threat hunts, to identify potentially malicious activity.
• Experience of Investigating security alerts to understand the nature and extent of possible cyber incidents and assist in the containment and eradication.
• Identifying cyber threats and vulnerabilities and working with teams across ICS to mitigate them.
• An understanding of programming skills (SQL, KQL).
• Azure Fundamentals Certification
• CompTIA Security+ Certification

Alongside your salary of £43,065, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £12,475 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

DCMS values its staff and offers a wide range of benefits to everyone who works here. We’re committed to developing talent, and supporting colleagues to have great careers in our department. To support with that, some of the benefits we offer include:

• Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working - DCMS staff work on a flexible basis with time spent in offices, and time spent working from home
• 26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years’ service
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Access to the Edenred employee benefits system which offers discounts to popular retailers and access to various useful resources such as financial and savings advice
• 3 days of paid volunteering leave
• Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity and adoption leave
• Staff reward and recognition bonuses that operate throughout the year
• Occupational sick pay
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme which offers staff 24/7 confidential support and resources such as counselling, debt guidance and management advice
• Active and engaged staff networks to join including the LGBT+, Ethnic Diversity, Mental Health and Wellbeing and Gender Equality Networks
• Exceptional learning and development opportunities that you can explore alongside your day-to-day work
• Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme and much more!

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This is a short-term role for a maximum of 1 year, which is available on both level transfer and temporary promotion.

As a Data Protection Operations Lead, you will:

• Develop data management policies
• Provide expert guidance to the department on how to meet legal obligations
• Assess data processes to highlight risks, and make recommendations
• Audit information to make sure data protection measures are effective
• Draft or edit printed and online content around data protection
• Respond to information requests and data breaches
• Produce face-to-face and online training for staff
• Maintain accurate records of data processing activities
• Keep up to date with developments in legislation in the UK and overseas

The ideal candidate would have the following skills:

Essential requirements:

• A current working knowledge, experience and understanding of UK & EU GDPR, DPA 2018 and PECR, particularly:
• Responding to information rights requests, (particularly Subject Access Requests) from individuals
• Existing working practices within central or local government, including risk management, ROPA, data privacy impact assessment governance & compliance framework
• In a comparable business environment, experience of providing evidence-based, risk-balanced advice to seniors, presenting complex considerations in clear and non-technical terms
• Proven ability to adapt to changing priorities whilst maintaining focus in fast-paced environments

Desirable skills:

• Qualified to CIPP/e
• Certified Data Protection Practitioner (PC.dp)
• BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection (DPA2018 & GDPR) or equivalent
• Able to demonstrate technical expertise that is equivalent to the qualifications

Alongside your salary of £56,582, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £16,391 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

DCMS values its staff and offers a wide range of benefits to everyone who works here. We’re committed to developing talent, and supporting colleagues to have great careers in our department. Some of the benefits we offer include:

• Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working
• 26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years’ service
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Access to the Edenred employee benefits system
• 3 days of paid volunteering leave
• Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity and adoption leave
• Staff reward and recognition bonuses
• Occupational sick pay
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
• Active and engaged staff networks
• Exceptional learning and development opportunities
• Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme and much more!

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This is a short-term role for a maximum of 1 year, which is available on both level transfer and temporary promotion. The role is aligned to Lead Application Operations Engineer on the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework.

As a Lead Application Operations Engineer, you will support the effective operation of live services, working with colleagues and suppliers to maintain reliable systems, improve processes, and resolve operational issues.

Key responsibilities include:

• Control IT assets across one or more areas.
• Verify the location and condition of IT assets.
• Identify opportunities for process optimisation, with guidance, and contribute to the implementation of improvements.
• Initiate and monitor actions to investigate patterns and trends, helping to resolve operational problems.
• Consult and engage specialist teams where required.
• Work with and manage supplier contributions to live service operations.

The ideal candidate would have the following key skills and experience:

Essential requirements:

• Incident management (practitioner): You can lead the investigation and resolution of incidents.
• Ownership and initiative (practitioner): You can take accountability for issues, be proactive in searching for potential problems, and achieve excellent user outcomes.
• Asset and configuration management (working): You can maintain secure configuration, control IT assets in multiple areas, and verify the location and state of assets.
• Continual service improvement (working): You can identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.
• Problem management (working): Initiate actions to investigate patterns and trends, consult specialists, and determine preventative measures.

Desirable skills:

• Experience aligning Line of Business (LoB) apps with shared services and supporting a transition to Microsoft.
• Proficient in supporting day-to-day management of contracts, services and end-user licensing for live applications, including maintaining effective commercial arrangements and value for money.

Alongside your salary of £56,582, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £16,391 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

DCMS values its staff and offers a wide range of benefits to everyone who works here. We're committed to developing talent, and supporting colleagues to have great careers in our department. Some of the benefits we offer include:

• Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working.
• 26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years' service.
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Access to the Edenred employee benefits system which offers discounts to popular retailers and access to various useful resources such as financial and savings advice.
• 3 days of paid volunteering leave.
• Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity and adoption leave.
• Staff reward and recognition bonuses that operate throughout the year.
• Occupational sick pay.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme which offers staff 24/7 confidential support and resources such as counselling, debt guidance and management advice.
• Active and engaged staff networks to join including the LGBT+, Ethnic Diversity, Mental Health and Wellbeing and Gender Equality Networks.
• Exceptional learning and development opportunities that you can explore alongside your day to day work.
• Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme and much more!

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Our modernisation plans include critical investment in our systems, ensuring they are fit for purpose and reducing the manual input required, as well as the ongoing development of a new central function to transform the way DCMS uses technology, data and digital services.

This is an incredibly exciting time to join the team within DCMS. Our mission is to digitally enable how DCMS delivers its priority outcomes which can adapt and respond to the changing needs of the sectors and partners we work with.

Job Description

You will work within an agile multidisciplinary team supporting the design, development and maintenance of data pipelines and systems on our Databricks platform. You will help ensure that data within the department is accessible, reliable and secure, enabling data-driven decision making.

As a Data Engineer, you will:

• Write clean, efficient, reusable and tested code, applying best practices, version control and CI/CD automation.
• Design, implement and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines and data flows connecting operational systems to analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) platforms using Databricks.
• Design and maintain structured data models to ensure data is conformed, efficient to query and business-ready.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise pipeline performance and system reliability, investigating root causes and putting preventative measures in place.
• Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists and business stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver business value through iterative agile delivery.
• Apply data classification, security standards, and governance procedures to manage access controls, maintain metadata and ensure regulatory compliance.

Person Specification

Essential Requirements:

• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL to manipulate, transform and optimise datasets.
• Proven experience designing, building and maintaining scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in modern cloud environment platforms.
• Experience working independently within agile, multidisciplinary teams to plan, prioritise and translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to investigate and resolve pipeline failures, performance bottlenecks and data quality issues.
• Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with modern data stack tooling for orchestration, testing and transformations such as Github Actions.
• Experience conducting code reviews.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,065, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £12,475 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

DCMS values its staff and offers a wide range of benefits to everyone who works here. We’re committed to developing talent, and supporting colleagues to have great careers in our department. Some of the benefits we offer include:

• Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working
• 26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years’ service
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Access to the Edenred employee benefits system which offers discounts to popular retailers and access to various useful resources such as financial and savings advice
• 3 days of paid volunteering leave
• Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity and adoption leave
• Staff reward and recognition bonuses that operate throughout the year
• Occupational sick pay
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme which offers staff 24/7 confidential support and resources such as counselling, debt guidance and management advice
• Active and engaged staff networks to join including the LGBT+, Ethnic Diversity, Mental Health and Wellbeing and Gender Equality Networks
• Exceptional learning and development opportunities that you can explore alongside your day to day work
• Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme and much more!

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