Senior DevOps Leader: Azure, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Manchester Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Pension contributions 28.97%

26–31 days holiday

Job summary

DWP Digital in the UK is seeking a senior DevOps expert to drive standards and enable multi-team success across cloud-based platforms. You will mentor engineers, govern CI/CD pipelines, and shape infrastructure for production, test and development environments.

You will champion DevOps culture, improve automation, and help define how AKS, GitLab, Argo and Helm are used across platforms. Hybrid working and flexible hours support work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a DevOps specialist across multiple teams and defining standards.
• Experience line-managing, mentoring and supporting DevOps engineers in Agile teams.
• Proficient with version control and building CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong background in Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud configurations.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration.
• Scripting in Bash, Python or similar languages.
• Deep expertise of Azure cloud platforms from design to production.

Responsibilities

• Help teams troubleshoot Kubernetes deployments in Azure.
• Define and promote engineering standards across products.

Skills

DevOps

Mentoring

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Containerisation

Scripting

Azure

Tools

Git / GitLab CI / Jenkins

Job description

DWP Digital in the UK is seeking a senior DevOps expert to drive standards and enable multi-team success across cloud-based platforms. You will mentor engineers, govern CI/CD pipelines, and shape infrastructure for production, test and development environments.

You will champion DevOps culture, improve automation, and help define how AKS, GitLab, Argo and Helm are used across platforms. Hybrid working and flexible hours support work-life balance.