Length of employment: Job Summary: Are you an experienced DevOps Engineer with a passion for automation excellence? Would you love the opportunity to promote technical evolution within the organisation across multiple teams? Ready to deliver real value to people during the difficult times of their lives? We're looking for outstanding Senior DevOps Engineers who want to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. The products we build are changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people. You'll act as a DevOps leader with line management responsibility, leading existing DevOps Engineers while increasing capability, standards, and practices across the organisation. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will contribute to our community ensuring that DWP and our DevOps practices evolve in line with technology advances. You'll be working on an exciting tech stack including AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Kong, Kafka, GitLab CI/CD, Python, and many more cutting-edge technologies across our services. DWP is the UK's largest government department. This role represents a unique opportunity to be part of teams delivering innovative technology to help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'. Job Description: We are looking to recruit a number of DevOps Engineers across DWP Digital including our Technology, Data and Analytics, Core Digital, Health and Disability and Digital Modernisation Services. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be using modern tooling to develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains where you will strive to support our ambition to use code for automation at the heart of everything we do. You will craft and implement solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable, extensible, and maintainable within cloud environments, while making sure that they are efficient and cost optimised. Working across the organisation, you will be pushing a mindset change to foster engineering ownership and the importance of the integrity and maintenance of the services we deliver. You'll be part of multi-functional agile delivery teams, collaborating with researchers, testers, architects, analysts and designers. Key Responsibilities: Recruit, lead and mentor DevOps Engineers as part of your line management responsibilities. Work across product-focussed teams to gather requirements and evaluate tools. Implement and update solutions while provisioning environments. Assist with operational issues and promote best practices. Shape and deliver automated solutions that enable consistent quality services. Collaborate actively with colleagues and value multidisciplinary teams over hierarchy. You'll be part of a supportive Engineering community of practice, with hundreds of engineering experts from across the UK united by passion and purpose. We'll give you the tools and time to build your capability, with coaching, mentoring, qualifications and formal learning opportunities. You'll share a brilliant environment with colleagues from across DWP and wider government, making it the perfect place to collaborate and build networks. What really excites us is problem-solving, and we have a unique opportunity to deliver technology that makes a real difference to millions of people's lives. Please note: As part of the role, you may be required to travel regularly to the other digital hubs. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours. Generous annual leave - at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro-rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave. Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme. Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly). Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year's continuous service. Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes. An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women's Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more. This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post. Salary Information Pay for this role is from £55,557 to £78,517. The maximum salary for the grade is £66,058, however a Digital Allowance of up to £12,459 per annum is available for exceptional candidates. Digital Allowance is non-salary, and non-pensionable, and is classed as a temporary allowance. It is reviewed annually where it could be retained, amended, or removed. Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview. Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary. Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater. When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below: Lead criterion -Significant demonstrable knowledge of writing and maintaining Infrastructure, and Configuration as Code for cost effective and sustainable applications. Extensive experience and proven track record of developing and supporting containerised applications using cloud providers such as AWS or Azure. Detailed working knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. Proven 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. Experience of recruiting, supporting, guiding, and developing Engineers across multidisciplinary teams in an agile environment. An initial sift may be conducted using the lead criteria stated above. Candidates who pass the initial sift will progress to a full sift. If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact richard.hanley@dwp.gov.uk. Stage 1: Application Your application will consist of three parts: 1. A Personal Details application form. 2. Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed based on the essential criteria. 3. Personal statement - up to 1000 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Person specification. The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and personal statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria. You will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for both your CV and Personal Statement. An initial sift will be conducted using the lead criterion stated above. Candidates who pass the initial sift will progress to a full sift. Applications will be sifted at regular intervals from the date the posts are advertised. Please apply as soon as you can, do not wait until the end of the campaign. Important Information You will be asked to complete your employment history. Any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form. Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered. If your employment history/personal statement contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn. We recognise that AI may be helpful when applying for this role, but it is important to use it in the right way. Read the DWP AI Candidate Guide to understand how you can make the best use of GenAI while ensuring your application remains authentic and effective. Stage 2: Interview If you're successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. Prior to the interview, candidates will be invited to complete an exercise on a specific topic. This exercise will be sent to candidates 7 days before their interview date. There, you will be questioned about the exercised and be assessed against the experiences listed in the essential criteria. Further details will be provided to candidates invited to interview. Interviews will take place from late July 2025. Interview dates to be confirmed. Other information: If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards. All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location. Security Clearance Requirement You must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check. For meaningful checks to be carried out, you will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. Whilst a lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance, and expectation of UK residency may range from 3 to 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements needed for the role may result in the withdrawal of provisional jobs offers. For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website. Further Information: Find out more about Working for DWP. For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital. A reserve list may be held for a period of 6months from which further appointments can be made. All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location. The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action. Reasonable Adjustment At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia. If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs. Complete the "Reasonable Adjustments" section in the "Additional requirements" page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a Language Service Professional. 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