Cloud Engineer

Would you like to help build, scale and operate a platform to support a product that you (and everyone you know) will use? The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) and Inspire People are partnering to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Cloud Engineer to join an agile Cloud team at the forefront of digital services to build and support the platform for DVLA's cloud-first applications. You will use modern tools to leverage a cloud-first approach using AWS and Azure technologies. £37,733 plus excellent Civil Service benefits and 28.8% 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.

As an Engineer in one of the Cloud teams, you'll get to work across a wide range of systems and environments. As a team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure. DVLA are constantly investing in their Cloud Platform so their application teams can build scalable, secure, and resilient systems, capable of supporting millions of transactions for UK Citizens. DVLA's delivery squads follow a DevOps model and are responsible for the full life cycle of their product.

Technology:

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

• EKS and AWS lambda (nodejs): to run our services
• Orgformation: to manage our AWS landing zone
• Instana: to monitor everything
• ArgoCD: to deploy our applications
• Azure EntraID: for our identities
• Elastic: to ship our logs
• Cloudformation/Terraform: for all of our Infrastructure code
• Pagerduty: to alert

Would you like to find out more about the role, the digital team and what it's like to work at DVLA? If so, DVLA are organising a familiarisation session where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Wednesday 22nd January 2025 at 12:00pm. Follow the Apply link for information on how to book on.

Responsibilities

Developing code to meet user needs

• Following best-practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines
• Writing clean, secure and well tested code
• Operating the services they build and identifying issues in production

Essential skills:

It is essential that you have some technical expertise across the full SDLC collaborating with multiple teams. This experience can be in the shape of Software Development, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE or similar and experience from personal projects will be considered.

• Delivery of cloud-based services using modern tools in any capacity, experience can be from industry, personal projects or educational
• Comfortable using modern CI/CD tooling and a DevOps approach
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation/Terraform
• Comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
• Interested in distributing systems and writing resilient code
• Passion for cloud and modern technology
• Experience working within Agile Delivery Teams (preferred)

Working for the DVLA Digital Team

At DVLA, licensing is just the start. Every project you implement, touch and deliver has a ripple effect that'll wash across the nation. At DVLA, the work you're doing has the capacity to change the way 50 million people interact with their services. As DVLA aim to keep our roads some of the safest in the world, our innovative, transformative digital-led services help optimise a nation of individuals and business every single day.

Due to the evolving nature of the business, vacancies can become available at any time. Therefore, this campaign may create a reserve list to fulfil demand if it arises which will be held for a period of 12 months.

Benefits

• Alongside your salary of £37,733 (which includes a non-pensionable Recruitment and Retention Allowance of £3,500), Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency contributes £9,917 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
• DVLA pride themselves on how they approach your development. From training courses to specialist skills workshops and opportunities to grow your expertise.
• Best in class learning and development tailored to your role (desired accreditations expensed and training days aside)
• 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 needs

Further Information:

• This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 5 out of the past 5 years.
• 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 have passion for Cloud technologies, have any experience of deploying cloud-based services through to production and looking to enhance your career working on critical, large-scale platforms that affect the lives of 9 out of 10 households in the UK, then apply today or contact Keesha Paulsen at Inspire People for further information, in complete confidence.