Senior Software Engineer: Cloud-Native, Hybrid, Impact

DWP Digital; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible hours

Pension contributions

Digital allowance

Career development

Job summary

DWP Digital in the United Kingdom is recruiting Senior Software Engineers to shape digital services for the government. You will design, build and operate secure, scalable cloud-based systems in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams using AWS, Kubernetes, Java, and CI/CD.

The role offers hybrid working, flexible hours, and a pension with generous employer contributions. You'll influence technical direction, mentor peers, and deliver services used by millions, while enjoying a strong

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing scalable, secure technology solutions aligned to strategy and outcomes.
• Ability to lead within multidisciplinary agile teams and influence technical direction.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures using AWS, Docker and Kubernetes; IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience designing complex distributed systems with maintainable and interoperable patterns.
• Understanding of SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps principles.
• Ability to embed security, accessibility, performance and resilience into architecture.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and champion engineering best practices.
• Design, build and support secure, reliable digital services used by millions.
• Modernise large-scale systems into resilient, scalable cloud-based architectures.
• Influence technical decisions across the engineering community and governance.

Skills

Scalable architecture design

Leadership in agile teams

Cloud-native (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)

Distributed systems design

CI/CD & DevOps practices

Security & resilience by design

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS

Job description

DWP Digital in the United Kingdom is recruiting Senior Software Engineers to shape digital services for the government. You will design, build and operate secure, scalable cloud-based systems in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams using AWS, Kubernetes, Java, and CI/CD.

The role offers hybrid working, flexible hours, and a pension with generous employer contributions. You'll influence technical direction, mentor peers, and deliver services used by millions, while enjoying a strong