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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior AWS DevOps Engineer - **Company:** Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) - **Location:** Leeds, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £48,103.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Integrated Development Environments, Scripting, Enterprise Integration - **Published:** July 7, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5790370925 ## 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. 4. Technical statement (up to 250 words). The following statement is aligned to the required technical skill of Technical Breadth. This statement should be used to provide example(s) of how you meet the criterion below: * 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. Ensure that all examples provided in your statements are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. If you choose to use gen-AI to support your statements, you must follow the guidelines outlined in the Artificial intelligence and recruitment guide., You must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check. You must have resided continuously in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years, 2 of which must have been the immediately preceding years from the point of applying for this job. ## Description Were looking for an outstanding Senior DevOps Engineer to help lead on the Internal Developer Portal which plays a pivotal role in accelerating delivery for over 2,000 engineers by turning complexity into clarity, and friction into flow. At the core of this role is the ability to design and champion a platform that enables teams to build, deploy, and operate services with confidence and speed - without re-inventing the wheel each time. By providing a single pane of glass for service ownership, documentation, tooling, and operational insights, the portal empowers engineers to quickly understand the systems they depend on and contribute to. This visibility is not just about convenience - it drives better decisions, improves reliability, and reduces cognitive load across the organisation. Beyond technical excellence, this role requires leadership. It requires setting standards, shaping best practices, and influencing teams toward a shared vision of modern, scalable engineering. Acting as both a strategic thinker and hands-on enabler, the Senior DevOps Engineer bridges the gap between platform capabilities and developer needs, ensuring the portal evolves alongside the organisation. This role is ideal for someone passionate about platform engineering, internal developer platforms (IDPs), and modern DevOps practices, with hands-on experience designing and operating tools such as Backstage, Port, or similar. Ultimately, success in this role is measured by how effectively teams can move - deploying faster, recovering quicker, and collaborating better. By fostering a culture of self-service, transparency, and continuous improvement, the Internal Developer Portal becomes more than a tool; it becomes a catalyst for engineering excellence at scale., As a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer, you will: * Join the Developer Experience team as a Senior DevOps Engineer which acts as a key enabler for DWPs engineering community. The team develop, maintain and support reusable CI/CD components, software templates, platform integrations, which are all surfaced through our internal developer portal that help delivery teams build and operate services consistently. * Lead the design and evolution of our internal developer platform, enabling teams to build, deploy, and operate software efficiently through self-service capabilities, standardised workflows, and automation-first practices. * Understand how service catalogues, ownership metadata, documentation, templates, scorecards and self-service workflows can be used to improve developer experience, reduce duplication and support engineering standards. * Be using modern tooling to develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains where you will strive to put automation at the heart of everything you do. * Craft and implement solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable, extensible, and maintainable within AWS cloud environments. * Be 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. * Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to engineers. You can lead knowledge-sharing, documentation and good practice across a wider engineering community, creating an inclusive environment where teams can contribute to shared tooling, standards and platform capabilities. * Work across product-focused teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implementing/updating solutions, provision environments, and assisting with operational issues., The sift panel will use the information in your employment history, personal statement, and technical statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge. An initial sift will be conducted using the technical statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will be progressed to a full sift. If you do progress to a full sift, you will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for both your employment history and Personal Statement. For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital. 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 or technical statement contain any personal details your application will be withdrawn. Stage 2: Technical exercise If you are successful at the sift stage, we will send you a technical exercise to complete remotely. Pleaseadd Digital.EngineeringRecruitment@dwp.gov.uk to your safe senders list or monitor your spam folder to make sure you can receive the technical exercise email. The exercise will focus on the technical elements listed in the essential criteria in this advert. 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