Senior Software Engineer - Cloud-Native & Hybrid Impact

DWP Digital

Manchester

Hybrid

GBP 58,000 - 81,000

Full time

6 days ago
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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.

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