At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our team to build innovative digital solutions that impact millions.
- Company: DWP Digital, the UK's largest government department focused on digital transformation.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, generous leave, flexible hours, and a strong pension scheme.
- Other info: Join a diverse community of experts with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real difference while working with cutting-edge technology in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and container management required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Pay up to £59,813 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and a truly great work-life balance.
We have an exciting opportunity to join our community of experts at DWP Digital as a DevOps Engineer. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year, to support millions of daily users. Our DWP Digital teams are using fresh ideas and leading-edge technologies to create innovative, scalable and user-centric digital solutions, positively changing how government work. We design, build, and run digital public services, making them simpler and faster for everyone.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
- Demonstrable experience of provisioning, deploying, and configuring cloud-based infrastructure (AWS) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including the effective use of reusable modules and design patterns.
- Demonstrable knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, integration, and deployment of products across all environments, including the use of fragments/includes for pipeline efficiency.
- Proven experience in creating, securing, and maintaining container images for use within automated deployment pipelines and highly available production environments.
- Experience of working with large scale containerised production workloads including orchestration and deployment tooling such as Kubernetes and helm.
- Proven ability to utilize observability tools (logs, metrics, and tracing) and automated testing to monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, and confirm the ongoing viability of products in production.
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary Agile teams, implementing DevOps Practices, showing an improvement mindset and evidence of proactively sharing technical knowledge with peers and supporting the development of less experienced colleagues.
You and your role
Our DevOps Engineers build our products and applications with researchers, testers, architects, analysts and designers as part of multi-functional agile delivery teams. What really excites us is problem solving. We have a unique opportunity to deliver innovative technology that carries real value for millions of users. Our teams draw value from collaboration, actively seek input from colleagues and value ideas from across disciplines, grades and job titles over hierarchy. We are extending our already skilled and creative DevOps team. You'll also 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, meet-ups or whatever else works for you.
Details:
- Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.
- Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.
- Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £59,813.
- Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £12,000 per year.
- Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.
We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies.
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving.
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'.
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more.
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference.
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
And we have an award-winning environment and culture:
- DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards.
- Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024.
- Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025.
- Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards.
Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages:
- Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
- Interview: a single stage interview online.
CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.
DevOps Engineer in Blackpool employer: DWP Digital
DWP Digital is an exceptional employer, offering a unique opportunity to work as a DevOps Engineer within the UK's largest government department. With a strong focus on work-life balance, competitive pay, and extensive benefits including a generous pension scheme and flexible working arrangements, DWP fosters a collaborative and inclusive culture that prioritises employee growth through professional development and mentoring. Join us in one of our vibrant digital hubs across the UK, where your contributions will make a real difference to millions of users.
