Senior AWS DevOps Engineer - Lead Nationwide Cloud Platforms

Manchester Digital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

DWP Digital is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to drive cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering practices across the organisation. You will work on highly available AWS solutions, promoting ownership and resilience, while leading DevOps engineers and shaping digital public services.

The role involves collaboration with product-focused teams, implementing scalable and maintainable solutions, and contributing to the ongoing evolution of engineering tooling and standards.

Qualifications

• Senior AWS DevOps Engineer with cloud experience.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Experience leading DevOps teams and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines and toolchains.
• Design scalable, resilient AWS-based solutions.
• Lead, mentor and line manage DevOps Engineers across teams.
• Promote engineering ownership and best practices across the org.
• Collaborate with product teams to gather requirements and implement solutions.
• Support reliability and performance of services.

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

Docker

Job description

DWP Digital is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to drive cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering practices across the organisation. You will work on highly available AWS solutions, promoting ownership and resilience, while leading DevOps engineers and shaping digital public services.

The role involves collaboration with product-focused teams, implementing scalable and maintainable solutions, and contributing to the ongoing evolution of engineering tooling and standards.