Senior Pega DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 08 June 2026 |
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| Salary: | £57,946 to £80,664 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2026 |
| Location: | B1 2AX |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 463591/1 |
Summary
Are you ready to lead DevOps at scale, shaping AWS environments, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering culture across one of the UK’s most impactful digital organisations?
We’re looking for outstanding Senior 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’re looking for driven and passionate Senior 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.
You’ll act as DevOps leaders, with line management responsibility of DevOps Engineers which will consist of leading 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.
As a Senior 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, to deliver the magnitude and scale of technology used to service our users.
Our Senior Engineers own and are accountable for the technical delivery of work within their teams, with the influence and authority to succeed.
You will craft and implement solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable, extensible, and maintainable within AWS cloud environments, depended upon for the investigation and elimination of fraud and error worth £9.4bn in the benefit system.
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.
You will be working on and around the infrastructure and tooling supporting our Pega-based case management tooling, brining specialist and specific skills related to this platform to ensure prosecution-ready, integral workflows.
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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