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Job Summary
Can you contribute to a culture of DevOps and support transition to DevOps as a best practice?
Are you passionate about continuous improvement, automation and removing toil?
Do you enjoy introducing new digital tools and methodologies through the software lifecycle?
Can you work with multi-disciplinary teams?
If so, this job could be for you!
We’re looking for outstanding 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.
As a DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for the design and implementation of applications' build, release, deployment and configuration activities.
We’re looking for a driven and passionate DevOps Engineers who would like to be part of teams delivering real value to people that need help during the difficult times of their lives.
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.
Job Description
In your day-to-day role as a DevOps Engineer, you will:
- Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery, assure and implement deployment strategies and apply different techniques to methods in analysing and resolving problems, working up new practices and procedures or modify existing processes to improve performance.
- Resolve issues to ensure citizen-facing services are repeatable, scalable, resilient and highly available.
- Communicate with a range of people inside the Department to produce comprehensive technical documentation for wider consumption.
- Work across a number of section and support product teams to write code that is simple and flexible to build, configure and deploy.
- Contribute to community discussions about DevOps best practice within Engineering.
- Collaborate across teams and liaise with Lead/Senior DevOps Engineers and Technical Architects to investigate technical solutions.
- Contribute toward a DevOps culture and automation best practices.
Within Our Data Insight And Analytics Team There Are Exciting Opportunities To Be Part Of Building a Capability For The Development And Deployment Of Analytics Driven Controls Such As Those Supporting Payment Accuracy, And Ambitions To Reduce Fraud, Error And Debt, And Additionally Roles To Build And Iterate The Strategic Capability For MI Reporting And Visualisations Across The Entire Department. This Capability Includes:
- Data integrations and pipelines.
- Analytics and MI workspaces – where data scientists and MI development teams can develop analytics logic and machine learning models.
- Deployment environments – where analytics logic and models, and MI products can be deployed and monitored in production – with the former integrating directly into citizen facing digital services.
In your day-to-day role as a DevOps Engineer, you will:
- Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery, assure and implement deployment strategies and apply different techniques to methods in analysing and resolving problems, working up new practices and procedures or modify existing processes to improve performance.
- Resolve issues to ensure citizen-facing services are repeatable, scalable, resilient and highly available.
- Communicate with a range of people inside the Department to produce comprehensive technical documentation for wider consumption.
- Work across a number of section and support product teams to write code that is simple and flexible to build, configure and deploy.
- Contribute to community discussions about DevOps best practice within Engineering.
- Collaborate across teams and liaise with Lead/Senior DevOps Engineers and Technical Architects to investigate technical solutions.
- Contribute toward a DevOps culture and automation best practices.
Within Our Data Insight And Analytics Team There Are Exciting Opportunities To Be Part Of Building a Capability For The Development And Deployment Of Analytics Driven Controls Such As Those Supporting Payment Accuracy, And Ambitions To Reduce Fraud, Error And Debt, And Additionally Roles To Build And Iterate The Strategic Capability For MI Reporting And Visualisations Across The Entire Department. This Capability Includes:
- Data integrations and pipelines.
- Analytics and MI workspaces – where data scientists and MI development teams can develop analytics logic and machine learning models.
- Deployment environments – where analytics logic and models, and MI products can be deployed and monitored in production – with the former integrating directly into citizen facing digital services.
Person specification
See selection process for further details.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact
[email protected].
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Technical Specialism : Cloud applications – deploying, supporting and patching / SFIA 9 – level 4 ITOPS
Alongside your salary of £42,614, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £12,345 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
- Generous annual leave – at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
- Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
- Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service.
- Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
Salary Information
Pay for this role is from £42,614 to £58,347.
The maximum salary for the grade is £45,081, however a Digital Allowance of up to £13,266 per annum is available for exceptional candidates. Digital Allowance is non-salary, and non-pensionable, and is classed as a temporary allowance. It is reviewed annually where it could be retained, amended, or removed.
Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.
Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.
Stage 1: Application
Your Application Will Consist Of Four Parts:
- A Personal Details application form.
- Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed.
- Personal statement - up to 750 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria below:
- Experience of administering and supporting Unix/Linux systems in a development or operational environment, including writing and maintaining automation scripts using shell scripting or languages such as Python.
- Experience of operating within a DevOps environment, applying Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices, with hands-on involvement in Agile Scrum teams to support iterative software delivery.
- Experience of writing, implementing, and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar, with a focus on building consistent, automated infrastructure deployments.
- Experience of designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, ensuring code is built, tested, and deployed reliably across environments using modern DevOps toolchains.
- Experience of working effectively within multidisciplinary Agile teams, collaborating with developers, testers, and operations staff to deliver solutions, influence engineering decisions, and continuously improve delivery practices.
- Technical statement (up to 250 words). The following statement is aligned to the required technical specialism: Cloud applications – deploying, supporting and patching / SFIA 9 – level 4 ITOPS:
- Describe your experience of when you have been responsible for deploying and supporting Cloud-based infrastructure in a production environment. Explain the context, technologies involved and how you ensured the infrastructure was stable, secure and scalable.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
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.*
For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.
Applications will be sifted at regular intervals from the date the posts are advertised. Please apply as soon as you can, do not wait until the end of the campaign.
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.
- We recognise that AI may be helpful when applying for this role, but it is important to use it in the right way. Read the DWP AI Candidate Guide to understand how you can make the best use of GenAI while ensuring your application remains authentic and effective.
Stage 2: Interview
If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed above.
Interviews will take place from late June 2025. Interview dates to be confirmed.
Further information
Find out more about Working for DWP
If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards.
A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.
All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.
Security Clearance Requirement
You must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website.
For meaningful checks to be carried out, you will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. Whilst a lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance, and expectation of UK residency may range from 3 to 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements needed for the role may result in the withdrawal of provisional jobs offers.
Reasonable Adjustment
At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.
We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via
[email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page.
Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job Contact :
Recruitment team
Further information
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles. If you wish to make a complaint, please find further details here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/how-we-recruit/.