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DevOps Engineer - AWS
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) · Birmingham, ENG, United Kingdom
Birmingham, ENG, United Kingdom44,447-59,813 GBP/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
£44,447 - £59,813 A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% GBP Digital Allowance of up to £13,266 per annum is available for exceptional candidates.
Location
Birmingham, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
For these vacancies, we strongly recommend that applicants consult with an immigration specialist or qualified advisor to assess their eligibility for Visa Sponsorship before deciding to apply. Please note that while we consider sponsorship requests in accordance with current DWP guidance and Home Office policy, sponsorship cannot be guaranteed.
Job summary
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeking outstanding DevOps Engineers to build Core Digital Services that power the UK Government. This role involves designing and implementing highly available, cloud-native infrastructure, ensuring shared platforms are secure, observable, and resilient. Engineers will contribute to a culture of reliability, drive automation, and introduce common tools and patterns to enable secure and scalable code delivery.
Benefits
Civil Service Pension with employer contribution of 28.97%Flexible working patterns (job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time, compresseGenerous annual leave (25-30 days plus 9 public/privilege days)Financial wellbeing support (interest-free season ticket loans, cycle to work scHealth and wellbeing support (Employee Assistance Programme, HASSRA membership)Family friendly policies (enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay)Funded learning and development (industry recognized qualifications, coaching, mInclusive and diverse environment with professional networks
Qualifications
- Demonstrable knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated product build, integration, and deployment
- Proven experience in creating, securing, and maintaining container images for automated deployment and production environments
- Experience with large-scale containerized production workloads, including orchestration and deployment tooling like Kubernetes and Helm
- Proven ability to utilize observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing) and automated testing for system health monitoring and troubleshooting
- Experience working in multi-disciplinary Agile teams, implementing DevOps Practices, and proactively sharing technical knowledge
- Demonstrable experience provisioning, deploying, and configuring cloud-based infrastructure (AWS) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including reusable modules and design patterns
Responsibilities
- Implement and refine DevOps toolchains for seamless delivery of Core Digital products, ensuring robust and repeatable deployment strategies
- Identify and resolve technical bottlenecks to maintain high availability, resilience, and scalability of shared platforms (e.g., Payments, Identity)
- Develop and maintain high-quality technical documentation for wider consumption of Core Services
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to write and maintain clean, flexible code for infrastructure configuration and deployment
- Actively contribute to the Engineering Community, sharing DevOps best practices and shaping departmental work processes
- Work with Lead Engineers and Technical Architects to investigate and implement technical solutions, bridging high-level design with automated implementation
- Champion automation and continuous improvement to reduce manual toil and enhance production environment reliability
Skills
AWSHelmKubernetes
Work schedule
Flexible workingFull-timeJob sharePart-time
Industry
DigitalEngineeringInformation Technology
Security clearance
Security Check
Relocation
No