Cloud Engineer (£39,163)

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Swansea; Hybrid; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK technology employer in Swansea is looking for passionate engineers for their Agile Cloud teams. This full-time position offers a salary of £39,163, flexible working options, and comprehensive benefits including a substantial pension contribution. You will engage in impactful work, developing and supporting essential cloud infrastructure and applications on platforms like AWS and Azure. Ideal candidates should be collaborative, with a strong passion for Cloud Engineering and agile practices.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution of 28.97%

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Passion for Cloud Engineering and agile methodologies.
• Ability to write clean, secure, and well-tested code.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure management and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure.
• Develop code to meet user needs.
• Coach and mentor junior colleagues.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

Team collaboration

DevOps practices

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

CloudFormation

Node.js

Job description

£39,163 per year, The salary of £39,163 (basic salary £35,663) includes a non-pensionable Recruitment and Retention Allowance of £3,500

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

Yes

Closing Date:

16/11/2025

About this job

Are you ready to make a real difference by helping millions of UK citizens access essential services?

Do you love working with cutting-edge cloud technologies and being part of a collaborative, forward-thinking team?

We’re looking for passionate engineers to join our Agile Cloud teams at DVLA, Swansea , where we’re building and supporting the platforms behind our 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 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 Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

• Department for Transport Careers What You’ll Be Doing Working in one 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 Platform.

Helping to build and support our services using a modern cloud-first approach, with millions of transactions flowing through the systems you help create.

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
• monitoring everything that matters ArgoCD
• deploying our applications with ease Azure EntraID
• managing identities securely Elastic
• shipping and analyzing logs CloudFormation & Terraform
• infrastructure as code PagerDuty
• keeping us alert and responsive https://www.youtube.com/embed/v3fIL_BPKXU?si_TU-eUtbGmgHmy3v
• There is also an optional opportunity to be part of an on-call rota to work outside of normal working hours to support critical services.

On call hours apply between the hours of 17:00 and 07:00 Monday to Friday and over a 24 hour period on Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays.

An on-call allowance of up to £4,500 will be applied as a non-consolidated, non-pensionable annual payment, paid in monthly instalments through salary and subject to Tax and NI deductions.

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 two familiarisation sessions where you can virtually 'meet the team'. Please click on the appropriate link below to book a place; Please click here to book on Session 1

• Wednesday 29th October at 11:30am
• Please click here to book on Session 2
• Monday 3rd November at 12:00pm
• Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t 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 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.

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