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# Senior DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- **Location:** Leeds, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £57,946.0 - £80,664.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Integrated Development Environments, Scrum Methodology, Cloud Services, Scripting
- **Published:** July 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2865767763-2

## About the Role

* Proven experience of writing and maintaining Infrastructure, and Configuration as Code.
 * Demonstrable experience of using Unix/Linux/Windows 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.
 * Significant experience in implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
 * Influential, with significant experience of supporting, guiding, and developing Engineers across multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment.
 * Significant demonstrable experience of designing, implementing, and managing an internal developer portal (e.g., Backstage, Port) that delivers software catalogues, self-service capabilities, and standardised workflows at scale.

You and your role

You will join our Developer Experience team and play a key role in making life easier for engineers across DWP. You'll help build and evolve our internal developer platform, creating the tools, automation and self-service capabilities that enable teams to develop, deploy and operate services more efficiently.

## Description

Working with AWS and modern DevOps tooling, you'll design scalable, resilient cloud solutions, develop reusable CI/CD components and drive automation wherever possible. You'll work closely with teams across the organisation to improve developer experience, promote engineering ownership and help embed consistent standards and best practices, providing technical leadership, supporting and mentoring engineers while helping shape the future of our platform and engineering community.


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