Job Description

Do you have a passion for technology? Do you want to lead a team of engineers that help build, scale and operate a platform to support a product that you (and everyone you know) will use?

DVLA are looking for a passionate Lead Cloud Engineer to their Agile Cloud team at DVLA, Swansea and would love to hear from you!

Would you like to find out more about the role, the digital team and what it’s like to work at DVLA? If so, we are organising a familiarisation session where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Friday 23rd October at 12pm.

Please click here to book on.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Technically leading one or more of our Agile delivery squads, following a DevOps model owning the full lifecycle of your product—from design to deployment and beyond.
• As an engineer in one of the Cloud teams, you’ll get to work across a wide range of systems and environments.
• Be part of a team responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure. Supporting our application teams by investing in a robust, scalable, and secure Cloud Platform.
• Helping to build and support our services using a modern cloud-first approach, with millions of transactions flowing through the systems you help create.
• Mentoring and developing our Cloud Engineering capability.

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

• 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.

We 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.
• Act as a technical product owner, developing medium to long term strategies for product lines.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance through coaching and mentoring.
• Lead the sharing of knowledge and good practice

Person specification

• To be successful in this role you will need experience of leading and developing a team and knowledge of working as a Lead Cloud Engineer across multiple teams and projects.
• You will need to have delivered Cloud based services using modern technologies and tools.
• Have experience working within an Agile Delivery Team to ensure that delivery meets business requirements and is sufficiently tested.
• As the successful candidate you will need to be comfortable working across multiple teams that deals with ambiguity, and to be interested in distributing systems and writing resilient code.

Benefits

Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency contributes £16,662 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Passionate, reliable and always willing to push yourself and those around you, you’ll continue to seek improvement in your own role and challenge us too. Because we pride ourselves on how we approach your development. From training courses to specialist skills workshops and opportunities to grow your expertise, we thrive when you thrive. You can find out more about all of the above here alongside a full list of our benefits:     

•  The Salary is up to £82,430 (The base pay is £57,515. In addition to this the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £24,915.) The value of allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated through the selection process.
• Best in class learning and development tailored to your role    
• 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    
• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 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.
• To view the full advert on Civil Service jobs - https://shorturl.at/Qpkjv 

Job contact :
Name: Alexander Zalewski 
Email: alex@inspirepeople.net