Cloud Engineer
| Posting date: | 16 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £37,733 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The salary of £37,733 consists of a base salary of £34,233 and a non-pensionable Recruitment and Retention Allowance of £3,500. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 June 2025 |
| Location: | Swansea |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 404652/1 |
Summary
Do you have a passion to learn about new technologies?
If so, we'd 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 before you apply? If so, we are organising a familiarisation session where you can virtually 'meet the team' on 22nd May 2025 at 12pm.
Please click here to book on.
You’ll get to work within one of our Agile Cloud teams building and supporting the platforms for the DVLA’s cloud-first applications. Using modern and exciting technologies we are currently rebuilding our services leveraging a cloud-first approach using AWS and Azure technologies.
Our delivery squads follow a DevOps model and are responsible for the full life-cycle of their product.
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, we’re responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure. We're investing constantly invest in our Cloud Platform so our application teams can build scalable, secure, and resilient systems, capable of supporting millions of transactions for UK Citizens.
At DVLA 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.
Your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:
- 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.
For further information about the role please see the attached role profile.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/HfVD_WBByyA?si=IbRdwgTqwk5XBKQJ
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