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 Upon Tyne 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.
For candidates requesting to work in Sheffield King’s Court, please note these roles will initially be based at King’s Court and then move to 1 West Bar by early 2028
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 help shape the future of digital public services used by millions of people across the UK?
Are you ready to lead, inspire and develop DevOps capability within a growing engineering community?
If so, we'd love to invite you to one of our face-to-face assessment days in Leeds.
DWP Digital is looking for skilled Senior AWS DevOps Engineers to join our organisation and help deliver some of the UK's most important digital services. You'll work on large-scale, business-critical platforms that support millions of citizens, using modern cloud technologies and DevOps practices to drive continuous improvement and service excellence.
The services we design, and deliver are transforming how people interact with government, providing reliable, accessible and efficient digital experiences that make a real difference to people's lives.
Successful candidates will join one of the following teams:
Health and Disability Digital Policy Service
Delivering digital services that support citizens accessing health and disability-related support.
Digital Channels
Building and supporting the digital communication channels that connect citizens with DWP services.
Bereavement and Care Live Support
Supporting digital services that help citizens access essential support during significant life events and caring responsibilities.
Core Digital Services, Shared Citizen Information Services
Providing the shared platforms and citizen information services that underpin DWP's digital ecosystem.
Job description
As a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in delivering and evolving the cloud platforms, tools and engineering practices that support DWP's digital services.
You'll use modern tooling to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains, placing automation at the centre of your approach. Working within AWS cloud environments, you'll design and implement solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable, extensible and maintainable.
You'll collaborate closely with product-focused teams across the organisation to understand requirements, evaluate tools and technologies, provision environments, implement solutions and support operational activities. Through this work, you'll help teams deliver services efficiently while maintaining a strong focus on reliability and long-term sustainability.
As a senior member of the DevOps community, you'll promote a culture of engineering ownership and reinforce the importance of service integrity, resilience and ongoing maintenance. You'll also provide leadership and line management to DevOps Engineers, supporting their development and helping to strengthen capability, standards and best practices across the organisation.
You'll contribute to the wider DevOps community, sharing knowledge and helping ensure our tools, practices and approaches continue to evolve alongside advances in technology.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains, with automation at the heart of delivery.
- Design and implement highly available, resilient, scalable, extensible and maintainable solutions within AWS cloud environments.
- Promote engineering ownership and support best practices that improve service integrity and long-term maintainability.
- Work with product-focused teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools and technologies, provision environments and implement solutions.
- Support operational activities and contribute to the ongoing reliability and performance of services.
- Lead, mentor and line manage DevOps Engineers, helping to develop capability across teams.
- Strengthen DevOps standards, practices and ways of working across the organisation.
- Contribute to the wider DevOps community and support the continuous evolution of engineering approaches and tooling.
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
