Senior DevOps Engineer

Pay up to £80,664 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

This is a real and significant DevOps leadership role in the UK's largest government department. Here you will have the freedom and autonomy to drive the development of our technical landscape and define what DevOps looks like in DWP.

You'll be a leading, expert voice in a DWP Digital community that is driving a once-in-a-generation transformation of public services.

We have a unique purpose, putting better, more efficient services in the hands of DWP users. The scale of our engineering challenge is also huge:

• We have 1bn lines of code in over 12,000 code repos and 90+ programming languages.
• We run around 294 days' worth of testing every day through automation.
• Our APIs receive 173 million requests, and we spin up 280,000 AWS servers every month.
• Over 22 million people - 1/3 of the UK's adult population access our services daily.
• Over 100,000 colleagues and agents use the kit, tools and systems we roll out. We build and maintain systems behind payments worth over £195bn annually.

• Proven experience of writing and maintaining infrastructure and configuration as code.
• Demonstrable experience of using Unix/Linux/Windows in a support and/or development environment including scripting languages.
• Demonstrable experience of working in a DevOps environment - continuous integration & deployment, delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience.
• Significant experience in implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Influential, with significant experience of supporting, guiding, and developing engineers across multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment.
• Significant demonstrable experience of designing, implementing, and managing an internal developer portal (e.g., Backstage, Port) that delivers software catalogues, self-service capabilities, and standardised workflows at scale.

You will join our Developer Experience team and play a key role in making life easier for engineers across DWP. You'll help build and evolve our internal developer platform, creating the tools, automation and self-service capabilities that enable teams to develop, deploy and operate services more efficiently.

Working with AWS and modern DevOps tooling, you'll design scalable, resilient cloud solutions, develop reusable CI/CD components and drive automation wherever possible. You'll work closely with teams across the organisation to improve developer experience, promote engineering ownership and help embed consistent standards and best practices, providing technical leadership, supporting and mentoring engineers while helping shape the future of our platform and engineering community.

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 £80,664.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £16,000 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 flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.