Lead Platform Engineer: Cloud, DevOps & Automation

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency; Uxbridge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer pension 28.97%

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Flexible working

Job summary

DVSA is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to shape and deliver the technical strategy for large-scale digital services, ensuring they remain secure, resilient, scalable and cost-effective. You will lead a code-first approach to infrastructure, driving cloud engineering standards, automation and platform delivery across multiple teams.

Our primary platform is AWS, with experience of Azure, GitHub Actions and SaaS integrations desirable.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS, Linux, Docker and automation experience.

Responsibilities

• Hands-On Technical Leadership & Strategic Alignment: Provide hands‑on technical direction and influence to multiple DevOps teams, ensuring their work is consistently aligned with the Principal Cloud Engineer's technical strategy and Civil Service values.

Skills

AWS

Linux

Docker

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Puppet

AWS Landing Zone

CI/CD

DevOps

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Cloud integration

Security

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Configuration management

Job description

DVSA is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to shape and deliver the technical strategy for large-scale digital services, ensuring they remain secure, resilient, scalable and cost-effective. You will lead a code-first approach to infrastructure, driving cloud engineering standards, automation and platform delivery across multiple teams.

Our primary platform is AWS, with experience of Azure, GitHub Actions and SaaS integrations desirable.