Lead Cloud Engineer

DVLA are looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join as a Cloud Lead and help drive the next phase of their digital transformation. This is an opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technologies and modern engineering practices, building and maintaining the platforms that power essential digital services used by millions across the UK. £55,515 - £80,400 plus excellent Civil Service benefits and over 28% employer pension contribution. Flexible, hybrid working from Swansea, a great place to work, live and play, with a healthy work-life balance on how and where you work.

Jon summary

As a Lead Cloud Engineer at DVLA, you will lead one or more Agile delivery squads, following a DevOps model and taking ownership of the full life cycle of your products from design to deployment and beyond. Working across a wide range of systems and environments, you'll design, build and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure, ensuring it is robust, scalable and secure. You'll also support application teams in building modern, cloud-first services that handle millions of transactions every day.

In this role, you'll provide technical leadership and guidance to your team, mentoring and developing DVLA's growing Cloud Engineering capability. You'll work closely with technical architects to turn designs into practical solutions, while promoting collaboration and the sharing of good practice across teams. As part of the wider Cloud Engineering community, you'll contribute to innovation, continuous improvement and the successful delivery of DVLA's digital services.

Why You'll Love Working With DVLA

• Impactful work: Your contributions will shape products and services used by millions! Such as, building the cloud platform that runs services like our Driver and Vehicles Account.
• Supportive multi-disciplinary teams: We're inclusive, collaborative, curious, and always up for sharing knowledge.
• Growth opportunities: If you're passionate about Cloud Engineering and looking for a new opportunity, we'll support your continuous development. You will have access to learning materials online, in-person workshops, certifications and qualifications.
• Flexible working: This is not a remote position. However, we understand that life happens - so we offer options to help you balance work and home, following the hybrid model, for you to enjoy the Welsh coast and countryside.

DVLA love exploring new tools and choosing the best fit for the job. Here are just a few of the technologies you'll be working with:

• EKS & AWS Lambda (Node.js) - powering our services
• OrgFormation - managing our AWS landing zone
• Instana - monitoring everything that matters
• ArgoCD - deploying our applications with ease
• Azure EntraID - managing identities securely
• Elastic - shipping and analysing logs
• CloudFormation & Terraform - infrastructure as code
• PagerDuty - keeping us alert and responsive

Responsibilities

• Promote knowledge sharing and adoption of good practice.
• Work with technical architects to translate the architectural designs into operations and support technical architects in operationalising the designs.
• Lead and direct infrastructure specialist teams in building, managing, supporting, and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy (if taking a managerial path).
• Contribute to the Cloud Engineering community.
• Provide technical leadership, coach, and mentor your team.

Essential skills

• Experience of developing a team of engineers
• Knowledge of working as a Cloud Engineer across multiple teams and projects in an agile environment
• Experience delivering cloud-based services using modern technologies and tools.
• Hands-on experience with AWS
• Interest in distributed systems and writing resilient, high-quality code.
• Infrastructure development and/or coding skills, with an understanding of the modern infrastructure development landscape and best practices

Benefits

• Salary: £57,515 - £80,400 Dependent upon assessment at interview stage.
• Best in class learning and development tailored to your role
• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
• An environment with flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues
• Digital communities with clear career frameworks
• On-site gym plus personal training available (membership applies)
• On-site nursery, restaurant and coffee bar
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King's birthday.
• Free parking

Further information

• Please apply with a CV that has evidence against the following criteria

- Leading a team of engineers to deliver platform services.

- Hands on experience of AWS.

- Infrastructure development and/or coding skills and an understanding of the modern infrastructure development landscape and best practices.

• This role offers hybrid working from Swansea with 60% of your time across the month (typically 3 days/week) office-based. Hours are flexible and condensed hours are an option.
• DVLA does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.

If you're passionate about cloud engineering and want to make a real difference at scale, this is a fantastic opportunity to apply your expertise in a modern, purpose-driven environment. At DVLA, you'll work with talented engineers, architects and delivery teams to shape the future of cloud services. Apply now or contact Keesha Paulsen in complete confidence.