Cloud Engineer

Are you ready to make a real impact on digital services used by millions of people across the UK? DVLA are looking for passionate engineers to join their Agile delivery teams as a Cloud Engineer, where you'll help design, build and operate the cloud platforms that power DVLA's cloud-first applications working with cutting-edge technologies. £39,163 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.

Are you ready to make a real difference by helping millions of UK citizens access essential services? We're looking for passionate engineers to join DVLA's Agile Cloud teams, where they're building and supporting the platforms behind their cloud-first applications. If you're curious, driven and excited by the idea of working on services that scale nationally, we'd love to hear from you.

You will be part of a supportive, multi-disciplinary team where collaboration, curiosity and knowledge sharing are at the heart. Your work will have real impact, helping to shape digital services used by millions - from building the cloud platform behind the Driver and Vehicles Account to improving how citizens interact with government services. You'll have access to continuous learning and development opportunities, including online training, workshops and professional certifications, all while enjoying a flexible hybrid working model that lets you balance work and life against the backdrop of the beautiful Welsh coast and countryside.

What You'll Be Doing

• Working in one of our Agile delivery squads, following a DevOps model owning the full life cycle of your product - from design to deployment and beyond.
• Be part of a team responsible for designing, building and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure. Supporting DVLA's application teams by investing in a robust, scalable, and secure Cloud Platform.
• Helping to build and support their services using a modern cloud-first approach, with millions of transactions flowing through the systems you help create.

Responsibilities

• Developing code to meet user needs.
• Following best-practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines.
• Writing clean, secure and well tested code.
• Coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues.
• Operating the services they build and identifying issues in production

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

Essential skills

To succeed here, you'll need some hands-on experience working within a team deploying services to the cloud. We're looking for someone who's already familiar with cloud environments and understands the value of collaboration in delivering robust, scalable solutions. If you've worked in a team using CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps practices, you'll feel right at home.

Here's what will help you succeed:

• Cloud experience: You've delivered cloud-based services using modern tools and technologies - ideally with AWS or Azure.
• Team player in dynamic environments: You're comfortable working in teams that navigate ambiguity and change, and you understand Agile frameworks like Scrum or Kanban.
• DevOps mindset: You're familiar with CI/CD tooling and enjoy working in environments where development and operations go hand-in-hand.
• Resilient systems thinking: You're interested in distributed systems and know how to write code that's robust, scalable, and secure.
• Infrastructure as Code: You've worked with tools like CloudFormation or Terraform to manage infrastructure in a repeatable, reliable way.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £39,163, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency contributes £11,345 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

• 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 colleagues
• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary
• 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

- Hands on experience of using public Cloud, preferably AWS and/or Azure.
- Comfortable using modern CI/CD tooling and a DevOps approach.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code with -Cloudformation/Terraform.

• DVLA does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.
• 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.

If you're passionate about cloud engineering and want to use your skills to make a genuine difference, DVLA offers the chance to do meaningful work in a supportive and forward-thinking environment. Apply now or contact Keesha Paulsen in complete confidence.