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As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you’ll get to work within one of our agile Cloud teams building and supporting the platform for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s (DVLA’s) cloud-first applications.

As a team, we’re responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure. We’re investing a lot of up-front effort in building scalable, secure, and resilient systems, capable of supporting millions of transactions for UK Citizens.

You’ll be primarily focussed on building out the Azure platform and influential in its development. Using modern and exciting technologies we are currently rebuilding our services leveraging a cloud-first approach using Azure serverless, Azure DevOps, Azure networking.

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:

• Azure Policy and Defender for Cloud to ensure the highest levels of security and governance.
• A wide range of Azure IaaS and PaaS services to support our varied workloads (VMs, App Services, Functions, Azure SQL, App Gateway etc.)
• Instana and Log Analytics to monitor
• Bitbucket and Drone/DevOps for CI/CD
• Elastic to ship our logs
• Powershell/Terraform for all of our Infrastructure code
• Pagerduty to alert.

Responsibilities 

Your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:

• Ensuring services are integrated, delivered, and operated as required.
• Having an understanding of the whole system and taking responsibility for teaching this to others.
• Working with Technical Architects and Lead Engineers to translate architectural designs into operations.
• Writing infrastructure as code.
• Operating the production services you build.

For further information about the role please see the attached role profile.

Additional Information 

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’.

You’ll have demonstrable skills and experience of:

• Delivering infrastructure as code into a public cloud space in at least one demonstratable project
• Cloud based engineering experience in either Software, DevOps, Cloud or Platform engineering
• Working in an Agile team/squad with a pro-active attitude to learning and creative idea generation

Working for the DVLA Digital Team

At DVLA, licensing is just the start. Every project you implement, touch and deliver has a ripple effect that’ll wash across the nation. Here the work you’re doing has the capacity to change the way 50 million people interact with our services. As we aim to keep our roads some of the safest in the world, our innovative, transformative digital-led services help optimise a nation of individuals and business every single day.

To see how our people are transforming our digital services, head over to our DVLA Digital Services Blog and, to understand more about the great opportunities and benefits of working at DVLA read our Inside DVLA blog.