Senior Infrastructure Cloud Engineer

Would you like the opportunity to work with the latest technologies reaching 50 million users? The DVLA and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Senior Infrastructure Cloud Engineer to work within one of DVLA's agile Cloud teams building and supporting the platform for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA's) cloud-first applications. £40,808 plus up to £16,592 allowance and excellent Civil Service benefits and 28.97% pension. 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.

Are you passionate about building a best of breed cloud platform to host a wide variety of disparate solutions?

If so, we'd love to hear from you!

Job description

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll get to work within one of DVLAs agile Cloud teams building and supporting the platform for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA's) cloud-first applications.

As a team, they're responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure. They're investing a lot of up-front effort in building scalable, secure, and resilient systems, capable of supporting millions of transactions for UK Citizens.

You'll be primarily focussed on building out the Azure platform and influential in its development. Using modern and exciting technologies DVLA are currently rebuilding their services leveraging a cloud-first approach using Azure serverless, Azure DevOps, Azure networking.

At DVLA you will get to work with a lot of exciting new technology, they get to trial multiple products and choose the best. These are some of the tools and technologies you will be using:

• Azure Policy and Defender for Cloud to ensure the highest levels of security and governance.
• A wide range of Azure IaaS and PaaS services to support our varied workloads (VMs, App Services, Functions, Azure SQL, App Gateway etc.)
• Instana and Log Analytics to monitor
• Bitbucket and Drone/DevOps for CI/CD
• Elastic to ship our logs
• Powershell/Terraform for all of our Infrastructure code
• Pagerduty to alert.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:

• Ensuring services are integrated, delivered, and operated as required.
• Having an understanding of the whole system and taking responsibility for teaching this to others.
• Working with Technical Architects and Lead Engineers to translate architectural designs into operations.
• Writing infrastructure as code.
• Operating the production services you build.

For further information about the role please see the attached role profile.

Person specification

You'll have demonstrable skills and experience of:

• Delivering infrastructure as code into a public cloud space in at least one demonstratable project
• Cloud based engineering experience in either Software, DevOps, Cloud or Platform engineering
• Working in an Agile team/squad with a pro-active attitude to learning and creative idea generation

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £40,808, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency contributes £11,822 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

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.

• 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
• Generous employer contribution of 28.97%, depending on chosen pension scheme
• Digital communities with clear career frameworks
• On-site gym plus personal training available (membership applies)
• On-site nursery, restaurants and coffee bar
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), increasing by 1 each year (up to 30) & 1 extra day for the King's birthday
• Free parking
• A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a minimum of 60% of their time in the office over a month, with flexibility dependent on balancing business and individual need.

How to Apply

To apply please click 'Apply'. You will be required to submit a CV providing detailed evidence of your experience of the following essential criteria:

• Hands on experience of Azure.
• Comfortable using modern CI/CD tooling and a DevOps approach.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or similar tools.