Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure) - Department for Work and Pensions - G6

Manchester Digital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DWP Digital is hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure) to lead DevOps practices across the Debt Services Department. You will build a DevOps culture, mentor engineers, and shape standards for enterprise-level cloud workloads.

You will work in agile teams delivering Azure-based debt management and recovery systems, with regular travel to UK hubs. A valid Security Check and three of the last five years' UK residence are required.

Qualifications

• Pass Security Check clearance and be eligible to work in the UK.
• Must have resided continuously in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years, 2 of which immediately preceding the application.

Responsibilities

• Define and refine engineering standards across the organisation.
• Drive a culture of ownership for infrastructure alongside software development.
• Create capability through training opportunities and practice alignment.
• Ensure digital services adhere to standards and best practices.
• Recruitment within the DevOps community and alignment with senior leadership.
• Mentor and support engineers and trainee DevOps engineers.

Job description

Location

This role may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle Upon Tyne and Sheffield.

Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.

Please note: 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'.

Please note: You must have resided continuously in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years, 2 of which must have been the immediately preceding years from the point of applying for this job.

We’rehiring a Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure) at DWP Digital!

We’re looking for an outstanding candidate who wants to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. The products we build are changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.

We’re looking for a driven and passionate person 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.

You will join DWP Digital’s Debt Services Department working in agile multidisciplinary teams to deliver modern, Azure cloud based Debt Management and Compensation Recovery systems. Our systems recover approximately £3 billion per annum whilst protecting the most vulnerable in our society. We use technologies like Gitlab, Terraform, Argo, Helm to manage a wide variety of infrastructure including Azure Service Bus, Azure Kubernetes Service, Postgres, MongoDB and more. Software applications are designed as microservices in Java and Node.js.

Job Description

• 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.
• Be 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.