Senior Software Engineer - Cloud-Native & Hybrid Impact

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible hours

Pension contributions 28.97%

Career development

Job summary

DWP. Digital with Purpose. Senior Software Engineer role within the UK’s largest government department. You’ll design and deliver secure, scalable cloud-based services in multidisciplinary teams using AWS, Kubernetes, Java, microservices and CI/CD.

The role is hybrid with hubs across major cities including Manchester. Pay ranges from £57,946 to £80,664, plus a pension contribution up to 28.97%, and a range of benefits designed to support work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing scalable, resilient, secure technology solutions aligned with business outcomes.
• Lead within multidisciplinary agile teams to shape technical direction and delivery.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures (AWS) and IaC approaches (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Experience designing complex distributed systems with maintainable, interoperable patterns.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers across DWP Digital.
• Design, build and support secure, reliable digital services used by millions.
• Modernise large-scale systems to cloud-based architectures with scalable responsiveness.
• Influence technical strategy and best practices across the engineering community.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud architecture (AWS)

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Security & resilience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Job description

DWP. Digital with Purpose. Senior Software Engineer role within the UK’s largest government department. You’ll design and deliver secure, scalable cloud-based services in multidisciplinary teams using AWS, Kubernetes, Java, microservices and CI/CD.

The role is hybrid with hubs across major cities including Manchester. Pay ranges from £57,946 to £80,664, plus a pension contribution up to 28.97%, and a range of benefits designed to support work-life balance.