Senior Azure DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 23 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £57,946 to £75,748 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 October 2025 |
| Location: | Blackpool, Lancashire, FY4 5ES |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | DWP Digital |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 428389_1758617018 |
Summary
Senior Azure DevOps Engineer
Pay up to £75,748 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We are looking for outstanding Senior Azure DevOps Engineers who want to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government.
We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.
The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
- Demonstrable knowledge of writing and maintaining Infrastructure, and Configuration as Code.
- Practical experience of using Unix/Linux and Microsoft windows server in a support and/or development environment including scripting languages.
- Practical experience of using Powershell, DSC and ansible.
- Proven experience of working in a DevOps environment - Continuous Integration & Deployment, Delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience.
- Demonstrable knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in gitlab and azure devops.
- Experience of supporting, guiding, and developing Engineers across multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment.
- Demonstrable experience of developing and supporting Azure cloud applications.
You and your role
As a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer you will be using modern tooling to develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains.
You will craft and implement solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable, extensible, and maintainable within multiple cloud environments.
You will be working across the organisation, pushing a mindset change to foster engineering ownership, and the importance of the integrity and maintenance of the services we deliver.
We write code and make decisions which shape the future engineering landscape of DWP, and which improve services used by millions of people to find work and access support and payments.
There will be opportunities to work across product-focussed teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implementing/updating solutions, provision environments, and assisting with operational issues.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool or Manchester, whichever is more convenient for you.
Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.
Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £75,748
Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth at least £16,786 per year.
Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.
You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexitime. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.
We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
- Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
Process:
We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just three stages:
Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
Coding Test: If you are successful at Stage 1, you will be invited to complete a short coding exercise.
Interview: a single stage interview online.
CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.
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