AMS PSR

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer for a 6 month contract (Inside IR35) based hybrid in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Blackpool, Newcastle or 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.

Core Purpose:

You will contribute to the Engineering and Architecture Leads that will help deliver the reduction of Tech Debt in our systems. With a focus on stability, availability and quality you will be accountable/responsible for the code you produce and administer.

The restructuring of teams has brought together multiple AWS and Azure environments that were:

• Created by different developers, each using their own patterns, naming conventions, and build approaches.
• Lacking formal governance, meaning limited unified standards, security baselines, or repeatable pipelines.
• Irregularly maintained, resulting in outdated dependencies, deprecated services, and inconsistent IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) structure.
• Fragmented across teams, with bespoke scripts, one-off resource configurations, and duplicated logic.
• Built without lifecycle management, so pipelines, modules, and versioning practices vary widely, making maintenance and scaling harder.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Standardise the Pipelines - Create a unified pipeline framework that all CCS services follow.
• Modularise Common Code Reduce duplication and improve maintainability by consolidating shared logic.
• Adopt Dependency Automation (Renovate Bot, etc.) - Introduce automated dependency and version control.
• Design and manage the tactics for building reusable libraries, templates and services and own the development of medium-long term strategies for product lines within your Functional and Professional Communities
• To provide, technical leadership and guidance, supporting the creation of a DevOps culture and implementing automation best practices. This will include coaching, mentoring and supporting your team, taking responsibility for their decision making and their professional development.
• Responsible for large blocks of work, employees in varied disciplines and with a wide span of leadership, breaking down user stories into tasks.
• Work closely with senior officers, providing advice and suggesting courses of action, provide coaching, mentoring and support to Software and DevOps Engineer colleagues and peers

Essential:

• Experience in technologies & framework like important key criteria, this will be used by PSR GitLab, AWS Pipelines.
• Design and Implement AWS based infrastructure using Terraform
• Familiarity for working with Azure services like Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, Function Apps
• Experience in AWS networking & storage, management & governance services.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

DWP guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our 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".