Lead Cloud Engineer - Cloud Platform & DevOps (Hybrid)

Government Recruitment Service

Swansea

Hybrid

GBP 58,000 - 82,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution 28.97%
25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays
Flexible working options

Job summary

DVLA, Swansea, is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer via Government Recruitment Service to lead agile cloud squads, design and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure, and mentor engineers. The role emphasizes DevOps ownership across the product lifecycle and a cloud-first approach in a fast-paced government environment.

You will collaborate with architectural teams, promote best practices, and help scale cloud platforms used by millions of transactions, while enjoying flexible hybrid working

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated ability to lead one or more Agile delivery squads.
  • Translate architectural designs into operational environments.
  • Mentor and develop Cloud Engineering capability.
  • Own medium-to-long term product line strategies.

Responsibilities

  • Promote knowledge sharing and adoption of best practices.
  • Work with technical architects to translate designs into operations.
  • Technically lead and direct specialist teams for building and maintaining cloud solutions.
  • Contribute to the Cloud Engineering community and act as a technical product owner.

Skills

Technical leadership
Cloud architecture
DevOps practices
Mentoring

Tools

ArgoCD
Elastic
CloudFormation
Terraform
PagerDuty
EKS
AWS Lambda
OrgFormation
Azure EntraID

Job description

DVLA, Swansea, is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer via Government Recruitment Service to lead agile cloud squads, design and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure, and mentor engineers. The role emphasizes DevOps ownership across the product lifecycle and a cloud-first approach in a fast-paced government environment.

You will collaborate with architectural teams, promote best practices, and help scale cloud platforms used by millions of transactions, while enjoying flexible hybrid working

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