Government Digital & Data

Job Vacancy Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - DWP - G7

England

Government Digital & Data

Job position

Permanent
04/10/2025
£57k-76k
Hybrid
England, United Kingdom
Published on 25/09/2025

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As a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer you will 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.

You will craft and implement solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable, extensible, and maintainable within multiple cloud environments.

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.

Other responsibilities will include working across product-focussed teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implementing/updating solutions, provision environments, and assisting with operational issues.

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Person specification

See selection process for further details.

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Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • Cloud Applications

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Location

This role may be located in one of the following locations; Blackpool or Manchester.

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About the jobJob summary

Please note this role requires you to pass  clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

We’re looking for outstanding Senior Azure DevOps Engineers, who want to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government.

The products we build are the changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.

We are looking for a driven and passionate Senior DevOps Engineer who would like to be part of a team delivering real value to people that need help during the difficult times of their lives.

You will act as a DevOps leader, with line management responsibility of DevOps Engineers. This will consist of leading and supporting existing DevOps Engineers while increasing capability, standards, and practices across the organisation.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will contribute to our community ensuring that DWP and our DevOps practices evolve in line with technology advances.

This role will be part of a DevOps team that maintain a bespoke Azure cloud platform, providing pre-production and production hosting for services and applications supporting three critical areas in DWP. Spanning both external and internal facing applications hosting key aspects of Retirement, Later Life and internal work management capabilities the team provide proactive monitoring and maintenance of production services, carry out product releases, perform incident fixes and investigation.

London, England, United Kingdom
> 1000 employees
Corporate / Direct Employer
Government Digital and Data is a community of experts leading digital transformation in government, creating more efficient services that have a meaningful impact on people’s lives. Government Digital and Data professionals benefit from cross-government events and learning. From webinars from the world’s leading innovators to digital upskilling sessions.They enhance our professionals’ skills and capabilities, which ultimately enables them to be a part of the world-leading advancements in digital transformation and government innovation.

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