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Job Description APPLY THROUGH THIS LINK ONLY OR YOUR APPLICATION WILL NOT BE SUCCESSFULJob summaryPlease note this role requires you to passSecurity Checkclearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.Are you a recent graduate or completing a Level 4 DevOps Apprenticeship? Ready to kickstart your tech career in one of the UK's largest digital organisations?Join us at DWP Digital, where your work will help transform how millions interact with essential government services. We're looking for motivated individuals ready to grow into DevOps professionals. Whether you're coming from university, an apprenticeship, or another technical background, this is your chance to shape services that matter.We're particularly interested in candidates with recent hands-on experience through an apprenticeship, academic projects, or graduate roles in areas like cloud computing, infrastructure engineering, automation, or DevOps practices.You'll join a mission-driven organisation with a supportive engineering community of 170+ DevOps Engineers. Get mentoring, training, and real-world experience delivering impactful digital services to the public.As an Associate DevOps Engineer, you'll support and deliver infrastructure-as-code, automation, and CI/CD pipelines. You'll learn how modern DevOps practices underpin critical DWP services and gain hands-on experience in real-world agile delivery teams.We have exciting opportunities across teams shaping the future of DevOps at DWP:DWP MI (Management Information) - Lead delivery of reporting and visualisation tools used across the Department, from frontline managers to the Secretary of State. Using modern technologies, you'll design products that drive better decisions through data insight. It's fast-paced, growing, and flexible. Health & Disability Service - Help transform live services by developing tools to support medical practitioners providing vital information for terminally ill patients. Continuously improve services to meet evolving needs. Data Platforms (Data and Analytics) - Work on platforms storing and processing data for our analytical community. You'll help inform policy and strategic decisions using modern tech stacks across on-prem and cloud. Integration (Core Digital Services) - Connect the organisation by evolving our API, Event, and File platforms key to supporting data exchange across DWP services. You'll play a central role in building modern, scalable integration solutions. Job descriptionYou'll learn about and understand the overall Software Development Lifecycle Process as part of a multifunctional Agile delivery team focused on one or more products.Gain exposure and contribute to DevOps culture, promoting and support the transition development and operations as best practice.Join a culture where you can grow and contribute to the wider Engineering and Architecture Practice that will help ensure the systems are fit for purpose. With a focus on stability, availability, and quality you will be accountable/responsible for the code and services your teams produce and administer.As an Associate DevOps Engineer, you will:Understand business requirements and how to turn them into code. Understand and contribute to automated unit and integration tests to ensure code quality. Identify issues to ensure citizen-facing services are repeatable, scalable, resilient, and highly available. Identify issues that prevent delivery or continuation of Software engineering activities. Support work across several product teams to write code that is simple and flexible to build, configure and deploy. Understand and identify ways to optimise the current development process. Provide support with coaching and mentoring to Software and DevOps Engineer peers. Contribute to community discussions about better practice. Actively contribute towards a DevOps culture and automation best practices. Person specificationSee selection process for further details.If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact 'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:Developing Self and Others BenefitsAlongside your salary of £37,497, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £10,862 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 23 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 InformationNew entrants to the Civil Service will join on band minimum.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.Things you need to knowSelection process detailsThis vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.Stage 1: ApplicationYour application will consist of five parts:1. A Personal Details application form.2. Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed.3. Qualification details - this should contain all your qualifications suited to this role.4. Personal statement - up to 750 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria below:Awareness of Software Development Life Cycle including version/source control and task/issue management. Awareness of Cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS or Azure, containerisation and implementation using Infrastructure and Configuration as Code. Awareness of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery including automated build, testing and deployment. Strong communication skills and a passion for teamwork and problem-solving. Make decisions confidently, using available information and support from others. Know when to ask for help and when to raise issues. Self-motivated and proactive, with a strong sense of ownership and initiative. 5. Behavioural statement (up to 250 words). The question is aligned to the required behaviour of Developing Self and Others.Please provide an example of a time when you identified a skill or knowledge gap in yourself or a colleague. How did you address this, and what was the outcome? The sift panel will use the information in your employment history, qualifications, personal statement, and behavioural statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge.An initial sift will be conducted using the behavioural statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will be progressed to a full sift.Important InformationYou 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 behavioural 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: InterviewIf 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 May 2025. Interview dates to be confirmed.Other information: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.All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location.Security Clearance RequirementYou must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.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.Further Information:Find out more about Working for DWPFor Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.A reserve list may be held for a period of 3 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.Reasonable AdjustmentAt 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 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.FeedbackFeedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.SecuritySuccessful 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 requirementsThis 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 ServiceThe 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 InclusionThe 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).Apply and further informationThis 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).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.Contact point for applicantsJob contact : Name :Oliver Canham Email : Recruitment team Email : Further informationAppointment 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: DWP Terms and Conditions January 2024 (3) Opens in new window(docx, 17kB) Success-Profiles-Candidate-Overview-Accessible-Version Opens in new window(docx, 67kB)RequirementsAPPLY THROUGH THIS LINK ONLY OR YOUR APPLICATION WILL NOT BE SUCCESSFUL #J-18808-Ljbffr