Senior AWS DevOps Engineer - Department for Work and Pensions - G7
Government Digital & Data -
Location
This role may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.
Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.
Please note that for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View. It will then move to 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'.
Are you an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer looking for a role where your work has real national impact?
Do you want to shape the future of digital public services and improve the lives of millions of people?
Are you ready to lead, inspire, and raise capability across a growing DevOps community?
If so, come and join us as a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer within DWP Digital.
We want skilled Senior AWS DevOps Engineers who are ready to take on challenging and meaningful work that supports the delivery of leading digital services for the UK Government.
The services we design, and deliver are changing how citizens interact with public services and are already making a significant difference to millions of people.
You will be joining one of the following team:
Digital Modernisation and Efficiency (DME) - We run major systems that support millions of citizens, from retirement planning and pension payments to services for people who rely on Care and Attendance Allowance. These services are powered by a large cloud platform built with leading technologies. This sits within the DME AWS Platform Team.
Health Transformation Programme (PIP) – We are transforming the way DWP manage the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) benefit, creating a new digital front door for the millions of citizens who claim PIP allowing them to apply and maintain their claim online. We are also rebuilding the backend systems required to support the benefit, streamlining the process for our agents. We are building the solution in a modern tech stack all deployed to AWS.
Job description
As a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer, you will:
- Use modern tooling to build CI and CD pipelines and develop DevOps toolchains, placing automation at the centre of your approach.
- Design and implement solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable, extensible and maintainable within AWS cloud environments.
- Work across the organisation to promote a culture of engineering ownership and reinforce the importance of service integrity and long term maintenance.
- Collaborate with product focussed teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implement or update solutions, provision environments and support operational issues.
- Act as a DevOps leader with line management responsibility for DevOps Engineers, guiding and developing team members and helping to strengthen capability, standards and practices across the organisation.
- Contribute to the wider DevOps community, ensuring our practices continue to evolve in line with advances in technology.
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
