About this role
Salary: £92,522 - 92,522 per year
Requirements
- Significant experience across the full lifecycle of cloud-based platforms and applications on AWS, from design and deployment to support and patching.
- Significant experience with version control systems and building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, such as Git with GitLab CI or Jenkins.
- Significant experience with infrastructure as code and configuring code for one or more cloud providers.
- Significant experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
- Significant experience ensuring adherence to industry standards for data security, disaster recovery and compliance.
- Significant experience creating engineering tools and solutions to optimise and align our engineering teams software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Responsibilities
- Work across multiple delivery teams, setting engineering standards and influencing technology strategy.
- Help shape the future of critical digital services.
- Guide engineers through complex challenges across cloud, on-premises and third-party platforms.
- Review solution designs and drive technical improvements.
- Mentor engineers and advise senior stakeholders.
- Help turn ideas into robust, scalable services.
Technologies
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Git
- GitLab
- Support
- Jenkins
- Security
- DevOps
More
We are DWP, the UKs largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £280 billion a year to support and empower millions of people. Our digital teams use new ideas and leading-edge technology to build and maintain services used by people across the UK. The role is based at one of our digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, with hybrid working that combines time at home with in-person collaboration at a hub. We offer pay of up to £92,522, a Civil Service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, generous annual leave starting at 26 days and rising to 31, public holidays, and the option to take up to three extra days off a month through flexi-time.
Our benefits include flexible working, volunteering and charitable-giving time, shopping and leisure discounts, interest-free bike and season-ticket loans, and professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. We have received recognition for our diversity, inclusion and workplace culture.
The selection process has two stages: an application through Civil Service Jobs and a single-stage online interview.
last updated 43 week of 2026