Location
This role may be located in one of the following locations: Leeds, Manchester, or Newcastle. For candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View and will move to 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027. Further information on the Corporate hub locations is available.
About The Job
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. We’re looking for an outstanding Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the Internal Developer Portal, a platform that accelerates delivery for over 2,000 engineers by turning complexity into clarity and friction into flow. The role involves designing and championing a platform that enables teams to build, deploy, and operate services with confidence and speed without reinventing the wheel each time. The portal provides a single pane of glass for service ownership, documentation, tooling, and operational insights, improving decisions, reliability and reducing cognitive load across the organisation. Beyond technical excellence, the role requires leadership: setting standards, shaping best practices, and influencing teams toward a shared vision of modern, scalable engineering. Acting as both a strategic thinker and hands‑on enabler, the Senior DevOps Engineer bridges the gap between platform capabilities and developer needs, ensuring the portal evolves alongside the organisation. The ideal candidate is passionate about platform engineering, internal developer platforms (IDPs), and modern DevOps practices, with hands‑on experience designing and operating tools such as Backstage or Port.
Job Description
- Join the Developer Experience team as a Senior DevOps Engineer, enabling DWP’s engineering community by developing, maintaining, and supporting reusable CI/CD components, software templates, and platform integrations surfaced through our internal developer portal.
- Lead the design and evolution of the internal developer platform, enabling teams to build, deploy, and operate software efficiently through self‑service capabilities, standardised workflows, and automation‑first practices.
- Understand how service catalogues, ownership metadata, documentation, templates, scorecards and self‑service workflows can improve developer experience, reduce duplication and support engineering standards.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains using modern tooling, putting automation at the heart of everything.
- Craft and implement solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable, extensible and maintainable within AWS cloud environments.
- Promote a mindset change across the organisation to foster engineering ownership and the importance of maintaining the integrity of delivered services.
- Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to engineers, leading knowledge‑sharing, documentation and good practice across the wider engineering community.
- Work across product‑focused teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implement/updating solutions, provision environments, and assist with operational issues.
Person specification
See selection process for further details.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Richard.hanley@dwp.gov.uk.
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