Senior DevOps Lead — Azure/Kubernetes, Hybrid

DWP Digital; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Hybrid working

Pensions (28.97% employer)

Professional development

Job summary

DWP Digital is seeking a seasoned DevOps specialist to lead across multiple teams, defining standards and driving automation in Azure and Kubernetes environments. You will mentor engineers, shape platform direction, and help scale our services with strong governance and automation.

You will champion DevOps culture, enable teams to own infrastructure, and work across hubs to refine standards, tooling, and security at scale.

Qualifications

• Significant DevOps experience across multi-disciplinary agile teams.
• Mentor DevOps engineers and define standards across the organisation.
• Strong CI/CD experience with git, GitLab CI or Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot Kubernetes deployments in Azure.
• Improve engineering standards across products.
• Mentor DevOps engineers and review Terraform designs.

Skills

DevOps

Kubernetes

Azure

CI/CD

Terraform

GitLab

Argo

Helm

Bash

Python

Tools

AKS

Terraform design

Git/Jenkins

Job description

DWP Digital is seeking a seasoned DevOps specialist to lead across multiple teams, defining standards and driving automation in Azure and Kubernetes environments. You will mentor engineers, shape platform direction, and help scale our services with strong governance and automation.

You will champion DevOps culture, enable teams to own infrastructure, and work across hubs to refine standards, tooling, and security at scale.