Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Pay up to £80,664 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

This is a real and significant DevOps leadership role in the UK's largest government department. Here you will have the freedom and autonomy to drive the development of our technical landscape and define what DevOps looks like in DWP.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

You'll be a leading, expert voice in a DWP Digital community that is driving a once-in-a-generation transformation of public services.

We have a unique purpose, putting better, more efficient services in the hands of DWP users. The scale of our engineering challenge is also huge:

We have 1bn lines of code in over 12,000 code repos and 90+ programming languages.

We run around 294 days' worth of testing every day through automation.

Our APIs receive 173 million requests, and we spin up 280,000 AWS servers every month.

Over 22 million people - 1/3 of the UK's adult population access our services daily.

Over 100,000 colleagues and agents use the kit, tools and systems we roll out. We build and maintain systems behind payments worth over £280bn payments annually.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

Demonstrable experience of developing and supporting AWS cloud-based applications.

Demonstrable knowledge of writing and maintaining Infrastructure, and Configuration as Code.

Demonstrable experience of using Unix/Linux in a support and/or development environment including scripting languages.

Demonstrable experience of working in a DevOps environment - Continuous Integration & Deployment, Delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience.

Demonstrable knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

Experience of supporting, guiding, and developing Engineers across multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment.

You and your role

In this role, you and your teams will help shape and support modern cloud platforms by designing, building and improving secure, scalable and resilient AWS solutions. Working closely with engineering teams, you'll drive automation, enhance CI/CD pipelines and use Infrastructure as Code to enable the delivery of reliable digita...