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You’ll get to work within one of our agile Cloud teams building and supporting the platforms for the DVLA’s cloud-first applications. Using modern and exciting technologies we are currently rebuilding our services leveraging a cloud-first approach using AWS and Azure technologies.

Our delivery squads follow a DevOps model and are responsible for the full life-cycle of their product.  

As an engineer in one of the Cloud teams, you’ll get to work across a wide range of systems and environments. As a team, we’re responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure. We’re investing constantly invest in our Cloud Platform so our application teams can build scalable, secure, and resilient systems, capable of supporting millions of transactions for UK Citizens.

At DVLA you will get to work with a lot of exciting new technology, we get to trial multiple products and choose the best. These are some of the tools and technologies you will be using:

• EKS and AWS lambda (nodejs): to run our services.
• Orgformation: to manage our AWS landing zone.
• Instana: to monitor everything.
• ArgoCD: to deploy our applications.
• Azure EntraID: for our identities.
• Elastic: to ship our logs.
• Cloudformation/Terraform: for all of our Infrastructure code.
• Pagerduty: to alert.

Responsibilities 

Your responsibilities will include but will not be 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.

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 a familiarisation session where you can virtually ‘meet the team’ on Wednesday 22nd January 2025 at 12:00pm.

Please click here to book on.

Additional Information

There is an opportunity to be available on a rota basis to cover/undertake out of hours activities and provide on call cover to support delivery of the service (5pm – 7am, Monday – Friday and 24/7 on weekends) for which an allowance will be paid. 

Applications will be accepted from full time/part time/job sharers. Full time roles at DVLA consist of 37 hours per week. Part time and/or flexible working may also be available subject to the needs of the business. If you have a flexible or part time working requirement, you should contact the vacancy holder in advance of making an application to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your desired working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role. To contact the vacancy holder, please use the job contact details listed under ‘Contact point for applicants’.

To be successful in this role you will need experience working as a developer across multiple teams and projects. You will need to have delivered Cloud based services using modern technologies and tools. Have experience working within an Agile Delivery Team to ensure that deliveries meet business requirements and is sufficiently tested. As the successful candidate you will need to be comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity, and to be interested in distributing systems and writing resilient code.