Cloud Engineer

Location: Swansea (Hybrid)

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

🕒 Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

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!

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• 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.
  
  Benefits
  
  You can find out more about all of the above here alongside a full list of our benefits:
  
  
• Best in class learning and development tailored to your role
  
  
• An environment with 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
  
  
• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
  
  
• Digital communities with clear career frameworks
  
  
• On-site gym plus personal training available (membership applies)
  
  
• On-site nursery, restaurant and coffee bar
  
  
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
  
  
• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
  
  
• Free parking
  
  About you
  
  To succeed here, you’ll need hands-on experience working within a team deploying services to the cloud. We’re looking for someone who’s already familiar with cloud environments and understands the value of collaboration in delivering robust, scalable solutions. If you’ve worked in a team using CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and modern DevOps practices, you’ll feel right at home