Infrastructure Engineer: Cloud, Automation & DevOps (Hybrid)

Manchester Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Competitive pay (£52,442)

Civil service pension 28.97%

Flexible hours

Work-life balance

Job summary

DWP Digital is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to join the Network Services Team. You will modernise infrastructure through automation, cloud technologies and continuous improvement, working across AWS, Azure, OCI and on‑prem environments.

You will lead automation initiatives, manage risks and dependencies, and help drive adoption of modern engineering practices while supporting a hybrid working model.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Experience with observability logs, metrics and tracing to monitor system health.
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary Agile teams with DevOps mindset.
• Experience using Unix/Linux/Windows in support or development with scripting.
• Provisioning, deploying and configuring cloud-based infrastructure using IaC.

Responsibilities

• Modernise network services through automation and cloud technologies.
• Lead automation initiatives and drive large-scale infrastructure changes.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve reliability, security and performance.
• Assist in adopting modern engineering practices and knowledge sharing.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Agile teams

Scripting

Cloud IaC (AWS/Azure/OCI)

Tools

Unix/Linux/Windows

Job description

DWP Digital is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to join the Network Services Team. You will modernise infrastructure through automation, cloud technologies and continuous improvement, working across AWS, Azure, OCI and on‑prem environments.

You will lead automation initiatives, manage risks and dependencies, and help drive adoption of modern engineering practices while supporting a hybrid working model.