Senior Azure DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 23 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £57,946 to £75,748 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 October 2025 |
| Location: | FY4 5ES |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 428389/1 |
Summary
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.
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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