Lead Cloud Engineer (£57,515 - £82,430)


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£57,515 to £82,430 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Swansea
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	12 Oct 2026
Closing date:	1 Nov 2026

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Summary

Do you have a passion for technology?

Do you want to lead a team of engineers that help build, scale and operate a platform to support a product that you (and everyone you know) will use?

We’re looking for a passionate Lead Cloud Engineer to join our Agile Cloud team at DVLA, Swansea and would love to hear from you!

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at DVLA roles: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - Department for Transport Careers

What You’ll Be Doing

Technically leading one or more of our Agile delivery squads, following a DevOps model owning the full lifecycle of your product—from design to deployment and beyond.
As an engineer in one of the Cloud teams, you’ll get to work across a wide range of systems and environments.
Be part of a team responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure. Supporting our application teams by investing in a robust, scalable, and secure Cloud Platforms.
Helping to build and support our services using a modern cloud-first approach, with millions of transactions flowing through the systems you help create.
Mentoring and developing our Cloud Engineering capability.

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

Impactful work: Your contributions will shape products and services used by millions! Such as, building the cloud platform that runs services like our Driver and Vehicles Account.
Supportive multi-disciplinary teams: We’re inclusive, collaborative, curious, and always up for sharing knowledge.
Growth opportunities: If you’re passionate about Cloud Engineering and looking for a new opportunity, we’ll support your continuous development. You will have access to learning materials online, in-person workshops, certifications and qualifications.
Flexible working: This is not a remote position. However, we understand that life happens—so we offer options to help you balance work and home, following the hybrid model, for you to enjoy the Welsh coast and countryside.

We 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

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

Promote knowledge sharing and adoption of good practice.

Work with technical architects to translate the architectural designs into operations and support technical architects in operationalising the designs.

Technically lead and direct specialist teams in building, managing, supporting, and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy (if taking a managerial path).

Contribute to the Cloud Engineering community.
Act as a technical product owner, developing medium to long term strategies for product lines.

Provide technical leadership and guidance through coaching and mentoring.
Lead the sharing of knowledge and good practice

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile.

Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills set out in the Civil Service Line Management Standards. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

Would you like to find out more about the role, the digital team and what it’s like to work at DVLA? If so, we are organising a familiarisation session where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Friday 23rd October at 12pm.

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