Join to apply for the Lead Cloud Engineer role at Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) Role Summary DVLA is looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join as a Cloud Lead and help drive the next phase of its 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. Salary up to £80,400 plus excellent Civil Service benefits and over 28% employer pension contribution. Flexible, hybrid working from Swansea, with a healthy work‑life balance. As a Lead Cloud Engineer at DVLA, you will lead one or more Agile delivery squads, following a DevOps model and owning the full lifecycle 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. Responsibilities

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

Essential Skills

Experience in leading a team of engineers. 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. Salary: £57,515 - £80,400 depending on assessment at interview stage. Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.

Benefits

Impactful work: shape products and services used by millions. Supportive multi‑disciplinary teams: inclusive, collaborative, curious. Growth opportunities: learning materials, workshops, certifications. Flexible working: hybrid model, 3 days per week office‑based, condensed hours available. 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year (up to 30 days). 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday. Free parking.

Technology Stack

Instana – monitoring ArgoCD – continuous delivery Elastic – log shipping and analysis CloudFormation & Terraform – infrastructure as code PagerDuty – alerting and responsiveness

Further Information To learn more about the role, digital team and what it’s like to work at DVLA, DVLA is organising two familiarisation sessions where you can virtually meet the team. Please click to book a place:

Session 1 – Wednesday 29th October at 11:30am Session 2 – Monday 3rd November at 12:00pm

Location & Employment Hybrid working from Swansea – 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 UKVI Skilled Worker License sponsor and is unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship. Career Path Mid‑Senior level, Full‑time, Information Technology and Engineering, Government Administration. #J-18808-Ljbffr