Job Description

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Digital DevOps Engineer for a 12 month (Inside IR35) contract. Hybrid working with 3 days per week required in either Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, or Sheffield.



We are looking for a highly skilled Digital DevOps Engineer to play a key role in building and supporting modern cloud platforms that power critical citizen-facing applications. This role involves working across strategic and support teams to design and deliver future-ready solutions, drive automation and consolidate complex systems into unified platforms. You'll be part of an agile, collaborative environment where high standards of technical excellence, problem-solving and innovation are central to success.



As a Digital DevOps Engineer your main responsibilities will be to:

Contribute to the development, maintenance and migration of infrastructure and platform-as-a-service environments hosting critical citizen-facing applications. Rotate across strategic and support teams: Strategic teams will be building solutions for the future and support teams will be changing the existing to move towards strategic solutions. Work within Agile delivery frameworks, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. Take on the challenge of consolidating various solutions into a strategic solution. Maintain high standards of code quality, documentation and operational excellence.

Essential:

Extensive experience in designing, building and maintaining Linux workloads across multiple environments on a cloud platform such as AWS. Extensive experience in designing and implementing best practices using IaC tools such as Terraform and automating legacy applications with scripting languages such as shell scripts, python. Extensive experience in designing and implementing best practices using CaC tools such as Ansible. Extensive experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Gitlab, GitHub, Jenkins. Extensive experience in building, deploying and securing containers using various strategies across multiple environments. Extensive experience in designing, implementing, testing with databases such as Mongo Atlas. Experienced in problem solving and troubleshooting technical issues. Experience using log management and aggregation tools such as Splunk. Proven ability to manage and resolve severity incidents.

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".