Lead Platform Engineer in Nottingham

DVSA is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to help shape and deliver the technical strategy for large-scale digital services, ensuring they remain secure, resilient, scalable and cost-effective. Working closely with the Principal Cloud Engineer, you will lead a code-first approach to infrastructure, driving cloud engineering standards, automation and platform delivery across multiple teams. You will provide technical leadership, build engineering capability and help teams deliver high-quality services through consistent practices and a streamlined path to live.

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

Key Requirements

• Champion CI/CD, DevOps principles and Infrastructure as Code.
• Lead and support multiple teams to deliver against engineering standards.
• Mentor engineers and testers to improve capability and delivery.

Are you...

• Someone with strong hands-on experience of AWS, Linux, Docker, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Puppet and AWS Landing Zone?
• Someone with excellent leadership, coaching and stakeholder management skills?
• Someone with experience of cloud and SaaS integration within complex environments?

Have you...

• Delivered standardised, automated cloud platforms at scale?
• Designed secure, resilient and cost-effective cloud infrastructure?
• Shaped technical strategy with senior stakeholders?

If so, we'd love to hear from you.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is a public sector body responsible for maintaining road safety and improving standards for drivers, vehicles, and driving instructors across Great Britain. Our Digital Delivery function is at the forefront of this mission, transforming legacy systems into modern, agile, and user-centric digital services that are used by millions. You will join our collaborative Digital Services division, working specifically within the Digital team. This team delivers mission-critical services, operating at scale in the cloud to ensure citizens can easily access essential government services, from booking driving tests to managing vehicle compliance.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King's birthday.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren't limited to:

• 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.
• Lead the establishment, definition, and enforcement of DevOps standards and procedures across the lifecycle (IaC, CI/CD).
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert to proactively guide, mentor, and upskill team members and colleagues of varying maturity levels.
• Personally design and architect highly available, cost-effective, and secure services on major cloud platforms (specifically AWS, with Azure awareness).
• Drive the code-first implementation and hands-on automation of infrastructure using configuration management tools like Terraform, Puppet, and Ansible.
• Take hands-on technical ownership of the service journey from concept to live deployment.
• Act as a recognised Subject Matter Expert to provide technical guidance and work hands-on with Service Management functions.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and delivery processes, collaborating with senior stakeholders, Product Owners, and cross-functional CSLs.

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Experience managing individuals as well as guiding cross-discipline teams using Agile delivery frameworks (ideally scrum).
• Experience delivering large scale cloud deliverables in a highly regulated environment.

Alongside your salary of £57,515, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency contributes £16,662 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits:

• Access to the staff discount portal.
• Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department.
• 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.

We are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, please contact Government Recruitment Service.