Senior Dev Ops Engineer

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Senior DevOps for a 6 month Inside IR35 contract based hybrid Birmingham, Blackpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers.

As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives. Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Help people to move into work and support those already in work to progress, with the aim of increasing overall workforce participation.
• Help people to plan and save for later life, while providing a safety net for those who need it now.
• Provide effective, efficient, and innovative services to the millions of claimants who rely on us every day, including the most vulnerable in society.
• Improve experience of our services while maximising value for money for the taxpayer.

As a Senior DevOps, your main responsibilities will be:

• Lead the adoption and development of DevOps best practices across engineering teams.
• Design, build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Support the delivery of secure, scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and release processes.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to DevOps engineers.
• Work closely with engineering, architecture and delivery teams to define technical solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement in platform reliability, availability and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to engineering standards, reusable tooling and automation frameworks.
• Support integration, testing and deployment activities across complex digital services.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform.
• Proven experience delivering Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
• Senior-level DevOps, Platform Engineering or Cloud Engineering background.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation and deployment practices.
• Experience supporting production systems in complex environments.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentor other engineers.

Desirable Skills

• Terragrunt.
• GitLab.
• Jira.
• AWS.
• Microsoft Azure.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Networking and network infrastructure knowledge.
• DNS, VPNs, Routing, Firewalls, Load Balancing and VPCs/VNETs.
• Multi-cloud environments.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance. Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, DWP encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, DWP welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following: this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.