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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- **Location:** Sheffield, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £44,447.0 - £59,813.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Software Design Patterns, DevOps, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes, Deployment Automation
- **Published:** June 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/devops-engineer-sheffield-yorkshire/2816336200-2/

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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.


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