Lead DevOps Engineer (AWS) - Department for Work and Pensions - G6
Government Digital & Data -
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'.
We’re hiring Lead DevOps Engineers (AWS) at DWP Digital!
We’re looking for outstanding candidates who want to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. The products we build are the changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.
We’re looking for driven and passionate people to be part of delivering digital services to people that need help during the difficult times of their lives.
You will act as a DevOps leader, building a DevOps culture along with line management responsibility of Senior DevOps Engineers. You will lead existing DevOps Engineers while increasing capability, standards and practices across the organisation.
As a Lead DevOps Engineer you will contribute to our community ensuring that DWP and our DevOps practices evolve in line with technology advances.
We have 3 roles available:
Payments - DWP serves approx. 22m citizens paying circa £282bn annually. We have an ambitious transformation programme to make best use of emerging future technologies and leverage industry best practices. This Lead DevOps role will sit within the Payments Platform Team.
Digital Modernisation and Efficiency - Teams within Digital Modernisation and Efficiency (DME) manage multiple large scale systems providing a vast range of services to citizens. These include providing retirement planning support for 20 million working age citizens, enabling 13 million pension age customers to receive their correct entitlements on time and ensuring 5 million customers for Care and Attendance Allowance are supported through timely, accurate and accessible digital services that meet their needs. Underpinning these services is a large scale cloud operations platform using best in class technologies to provide best in class service. This Lead DevOps role will sit within the DME AWS Platform Team.
Data Enablement - The Data Enablement team, responsible for managing a variety of data products, including those related to welfare benefits, citizen journeys, and reference/meta-data services. These products are created by transforming raw data into curated, user-friendly data that can be easily understood and used by end users. The Data Enablement team also owns a data quality tool and a data analytics platform (SAS), which is currently undergoing a major migration from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.
Ready to take the lead? Apply now and be part of something meaningful!
Job description
As Lead DevOps Engineer, you will:
- Work across multiple teams as an engineering specialist defining and refining organisation engineering standards.
- Push a mindset and culture change within the organisation to foster engineering ownership of infrastructure development alongside software engineering activities.
- Create capability, through definition of training opportunities, pastoral care and practice alignment.
- Be responsible for ensuring our digital services are adhering to standards and best practice.
- Be responsible for recruitment within the DevOps community and working with senior leaders to ensure strategically the teams are setup to succeed.
- Responsible for mentoring and support of engineers and trainee DevOps engineers.
Please note: As part of the role, you may be required to travel regularly to the other digital hubs. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful.
Person specification
See selection process for further details.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Richard.Hanley@dwp.gov.uk
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Technical Breadth.
