Senior Platform Engineer: AWS Cloud & DevOps Lead

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Swansea; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution

Annual leave

Flexible working

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service is recruiting for a Lead Platform Engineer to shape DVSA's cloud strategy and deliver secure, scalable services on AWS. You will mentor teams, enforce code-first IaC standards, and partner with the Principal Cloud Engineer to raise engineering capability.

The role focuses on cost-effective cloud platforms, automation, and cross-team delivery, with a strong emphasis on security, resilience and live service management in a UK civil service context.

Qualifications

• Hands-on leadership across DevOps teams, aligning with strategy and Civil Service values.
• Definition and enforcement of DevOps standards, IaC and CI/CD governance with security controls.
• Mentoring and uplifting team capability across varying maturity levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on technical direction and influence to multiple DevOps teams.
• Drive standardisation and governance across IaC and CI/CD, embedding security controls.

Skills

AWS

Linux

Docker

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Puppet

AWS Landing Zone

Leadership

Coaching

Stakeholder mgmt

Cloud & SaaS integration

Tools

Terraform

Puppet

Ansible

Job description

Government Recruitment Service is recruiting for a Lead Platform Engineer to shape DVSA's cloud strategy and deliver secure, scalable services on AWS. You will mentor teams, enforce code-first IaC standards, and partner with the Principal Cloud Engineer to raise engineering capability.

The role focuses on cost-effective cloud platforms, automation, and cross-team delivery, with a strong emphasis on security, resilience and live service management in a UK civil service context.