Senior AWS DevOps Engineer - Department for Work and Pensions - G7

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, 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'.

We’re looking for an outstanding Senior DevOps Engineer to help lead on the Internal Developer Portal which plays a pivotal role in accelerating delivery for over 2,000 engineers by turning complexity into clarity, and friction into flow. At the core of this role is the ability to design and champion a platform that enables teams to build, deploy, and operate services with confidence and speed - without re-inventing the wheel each time.

By providing a single pane of glass for service ownership, documentation, tooling, and operational insights, the portal empowers engineers to quickly understand the systems they depend on and contribute to. This visibility is not just about convenience - it drives better decisions, improves reliability, and reduces cognitive load across the organisation.

Beyond technical excellence, this role requires leadership. It requires setting standards, shaping best practices, and influencing teams toward a shared vision of modern, scalable engineering. Acting as both a strategic thinker and hands-on enabler, the Senior DevOps Engineer bridges the gap between platform capabilities and developer needs, ensuring the portal evolves alongside the organisation.

This role is ideal for someone passionate about platform engineering, internal developer platforms (IDPs), and modern DevOps practices, with hands-on experience designing and operating tools such as Backstage, Port, or similar.

Ultimately, success in this role is measured by how effectively teams can move - deploying faster, recovering quicker, and collaborating better. By fostering a culture of self-service, transparency, and continuous improvement, the Internal Developer Portal becomes more than a tool; it becomes a catalyst for engineering excellence at scale.

Job description

As a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Join the Developer Experience team as a Senior DevOps Engineer which acts as a key enabler for DWP’s engineering community. The team develop, maintain and support reusable CI/CD components, software templates, platform integrations, which are all surfaced through our internal developer portal that help delivery teams build and operate services consistently.
• Lead the design and evolution of our internal developer platform, enabling teams to build, deploy, and operate software efficiently through self-service capabilities, standardised workflows, and automation-first practices.
• Understand how service catalogues, ownership metadata, documentation, templates, scorecards and self-service workflows can be used to improve developer experience, reduce duplication and support engineering standards.
• Be using modern tooling to develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains where you will strive to put automation at the heart of everything you do.
• Craft and implement solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable, extensible, and maintainable within AWS cloud environments.
• Be working across the organisation you will be pushing a mindset change to foster engineering ownership, and the importance of the integrity and maintenance of the services we deliver.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to engineers. You can lead knowledge-sharing, documentation and good practice across a wider engineering community, creating an inclusive environment where teams can contribute to shared tooling, standards and platform capabilities.
• Work across product-focused teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implementing/updating solutions, provision environments, and assisting with operational issues.

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.