Senior DevOps Engineer – AWS Fully Remote

Senior Azure 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 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. Demonstrable knowledge of writing and maintaining Infrastructure, and Configuration as Code. Proven experience of using Unix/Linux/Windows in a support and/or development environment including scripting languages. Extensive experience of working in a DevOps environment – Continuous Integration & Deployment, delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience. Experience of supporting, guiding, and developing Engineers across multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment. As a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer, you’ll spend your days building and improving the pipelines and tooling that keep our Azure platform running smoothly. You’ll be deep in GitLab, Terraform, Argo and Helm, helping teams ship their Java and Node.js microservices and managing everything from AKS and Service Bus to Postgres and MongoDB. Along the way, you’ll help strengthen engineering ownership across the organisation, making sure everyone cares as much about reliability and service integrity as you do. Location: You’ll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model – you’ll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £80,664. Pension: You’ll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £16,000 per year. Holidays: You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You’ll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Interview: a single stage interview online….