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 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: Technical expertise across the full SDLC collaborating with multiple teams (Software Development, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE or similar) 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. Benefits: Salary of £37,733 (including a non-pensionable Recruitment and Retention Allowance of £3,500) Generous employer contribution of 28.97%, depending on chosen pension scheme Best in class learning and development tailored to your role 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 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 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.

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