Associate DevOps Engineer - DWP - HEO
Government Digital & Data -
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.
Are you a recent graduate or completing a Level 4 DevOps Apprenticeship? Ready to kickstart your tech career in one of the UK’s largest digital organisations?
Join us at DWP Digital, where your work will help transform how millions interact with essential government services. We’re looking for motivated individuals ready to grow into DevOps professionals. Whether you’re coming from university, an apprenticeship, or another technical background, this is your chance to shape services that matter.
We’re particularly interested in candidates with recent hands-on experience through an apprenticeship, academic projects, or graduate roles in areas like cloud computing, infrastructure engineering, automation, or DevOps practices.
You’ll join a mission-driven organisation with a supportive engineering community of 170+ DevOps Engineers. Get mentoring, training, and real-world experience delivering impactful digital services to the public.
As an Associate DevOps Engineer, you’ll support and deliver infrastructure-as-code, automation, and CI/CD pipelines. You’ll learn how modern DevOps practices underpin critical DWP services and gain hands-on experience in real-world agile delivery teams.
We have exciting opportunities across teams shaping the future of DevOps at DWP:
- DWP MI (Management Information) – Lead delivery of reporting and visualisation tools used across the Department, from frontline managers to the Secretary of State. Using modern technologies, you’ll design products that drive better decisions through data insight. It’s fast-paced, growing, and flexible.
- Health & Disability Service – Help transform live services by developing tools to support medical practitioners providing vital information for terminally ill patients. Continuously improve services to meet evolving needs.
- Data Platforms (Data and Analytics) – Work on platforms storing and processing data for our analytical community. You’ll help inform policy and strategic decisions using modern tech stacks across on-prem and cloud.
- Integration (Core Digital Services) – Connect the organisation by evolving our API, Event, and File platforms key to supporting data exchange across DWP services. You’ll play a central role in building modern, scalable integration solutions.
Job description
You’ll learn about and understand the overall Software Development Lifecycle Process as part of a multifunctional Agile delivery team focused on one or more products.
Gain exposure and contribute to DevOps culture, promoting and support the transition development and operations as best practice.
Join a culture where you can grow and contribute to the wider Engineering and Architecture Practice that will help ensure the systems are fit for purpose. With a focus on stability, availability, and quality you will be accountable/responsible for the code and services your teams produce and administer.
As an Associate DevOps Engineer, you will:
- Understand business requirements and how to turn them into code.
- Understand and contribute to automated unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.
- Identify issues to ensure citizen-facing services are repeatable, scalable, resilient, and highly available.
- Identify issues that prevent delivery or continuation of Software engineering activities.
- Support work across several product teams to write code that is simple and flexible to build, configure and deploy.
- Understand and identify ways to optimise the current development process.
- Provide support with coaching and mentoring to Software and DevOps Engineer peers.
- Contribute to community discussions about better practice.
- Actively contribute towards a DevOps culture and automation best practices.
Person specification
See selection process for further details.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Oliver.canham1@dwp.gov.uk.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Developing Self and Others
