Senior AWS DevOps Engineer for Public Digital Services

DWP Digital; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

DWP Digital is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to help shape national digital public services across the UK. You will lead DevOps capability within an expanding engineering community, build scalable automation, and drive reliability across large-scale platforms in AWS.

You’ll mentor engineers and promote best practices while collaborating with product teams to deliver value. You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, advocate ownership, and guide architectural decisions to ensure

Qualifications

• Senior AWS DevOps Engineer with cloud architecture experience.
• Proven ability to design and deliver CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains.
• Experience leading and mentoring DevOps engineers and teams.

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.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

DevOps

Automation

Leadership

Line management

Cloud infrastructure

SRE

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

DWP Digital is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to help shape national digital public services across the UK. You will lead DevOps capability within an expanding engineering community, build scalable automation, and drive reliability across large-scale platforms in AWS.

You’ll mentor engineers and promote best practices while collaborating with product teams to deliver value. You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, advocate ownership, and guide architectural decisions to ensure