Senior DevOps Engineer

DWP Digital; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 73,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Civil service pension 28.97%

Generous annual leave 26–31 days

Flexi-time

Professional development

Discounts and savings

Cycle and season ticket loans

Volunteer time off

Career progression opportunities

Job summary

DWP Digital in the United Kingdom is seeking a DevOps leadership figure to shape modern cloud platforms and drive secure, scalable AWS solutions. You will mentor engineers, advance automation, and own CI/CD strategies in a hybrid working model across multiple hubs including Sheffield.

Join a once-in-a-generation transformation within the public sector, contributing to a vast engineering landscape and public value.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and supporting AWS cloud-based applications.
• Knowledge of writing and maintaining infrastructure as code.
• Experience with Unix/Linux in support or development environments and scripting.
• Experience in a DevOps environment with CI/CD and agile Scrum.
• Knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience guiding engineers in multi-disciplinary, agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Shape and support modern cloud platforms by designing, building and improving AWS solutions.
• Drive automation and enhance CI/CD pipelines across engineering teams.
• Use Infrastructure as Code to enable reliable digital services delivery.
• Mentor engineers and evolve DevOps capabilities within the team.

Skills

AWS cloud-based apps

Infrastructure as Code

Unix/Linux

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Pay up to £80,664 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

This is a real and significant DevOps leadership role in the UK's largest government department. Here you will have the freedom and autonomy to drive the development of our technical landscape and define what DevOps looks like in DWP.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

You'll be a leading, expert voice in a DWP Digital community that is driving a once-in-a-generation transformation of public services.

We have a unique purpose, putting better, more efficient services in the hands of DWP users. The scale of our engineering challenge is also huge:

• We have 1bn lines of code in over 12,000 code repos and 90+ programming languages.
• We run around 294 days' worth of testing every day through automation.
• Our APIs receive 173 million requests, and we spin up 280,000 AWS servers every month.
• Over 22 million people - 1/3 of the UK's adult population access our services daily.
• Over 100,000 colleagues and agents use the kit, tools and systems we roll out. We build and maintain systems behind payments worth over £280bn payments annually.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Demonstrable experience of developing and supporting AWS cloud-based applications.
• Demonstrable knowledge of writing and maintaining Infrastructure, and Configuration as Code.
• Demonstrable experience of using Unix/Linux in a support and/or development environment including scripting languages.
• Demonstrable experience of working in a DevOps environment - Continuous Integration & Deployment, Delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience.
• Demonstrable knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience of supporting, guiding, and developing Engineers across multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment.

You and your role

In this role, you and your teams will help shape and support modern cloud platforms by designing, building and improving secure, scalable and resilient AWS solutions. Working closely with engineering teams, you'll drive automation, enhance CI/CD pipelines and use Infrastructure as Code to enable the delivery of reliable digital services.

You’ll tackle complex technical challenges, champion engineering best practices and support a culture of ownership, continuous improvement and operational excellence, while mentoring other engineers and helping evolve our DevOps capabilities.

Location

You’ll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working

We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay

We offer competitive pay of up to £80,664.

Pension

You’ll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £16,000 per year.

Holidays

A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You’ll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

And we have an award-winning environment and culture

• DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards
• Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024
• Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025
• Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards