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Lead Cloud Engineer (£57,515 - £82,430)
Department for Transport · Swansea, WLS, United Kingdom
Swansea, WLS, United Kingdom57,515-82,430 GBP/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
Civil Service Pension with employer contribution of 28.97%; Digital and Data Allowance up to £24,915; on-call allowance up to £4,500 annually, non-consolidated and non-pensionable.
Location
Swansea, WLS, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
No UK Skilled Worker Licence sponsor; unable to sponsor Skilled Worker visas.
Job summary
Lead Agile engineering squads responsible for designing, building, securing, and operating scalable cloud platforms and services used by millions. Own delivery across the product lifecycle in a DevOps environment, translate architectural designs into operational solutions, shape product strategy, and develop engineering capability through coaching and knowledge sharing. The role works with AWS and Azure technologies including EKS, Lambda, Terraform, CloudFormation, Argo CD, Instana, Elastic, and PagerDuty.
Benefits
Civil Service Pension with 28.97% employer contribution25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 with service8 bank holidays and an additional privilege dayFlexible workingLearning and development opportunitiesTraining, workshops, certifications, and qualificationsOn-site gymOn-site nursery, restaurants, and coffee barEmployee Assistance ProgrammeFree parkingPotential on-call allowance up to £4,500 per year
Qualifications
- Experience technically leading and developing an engineering team
- Experience leading cloud engineering across multiple teams and projects
- Experience delivering cloud-based services using modern technologies and tools
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams to meet business needs and ensure adequate testing
- Hands-on AWS experience
- Experience with infrastructure as code and automated infrastructure provisioning
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and modern DevOps practices
- Comfort working across teams in ambiguous environments
- Interest in distributed systems and resilient code
Responsibilities
- Technically lead Agile delivery squads and own products through design, deployment, and ongoing operations
- Design, build, manage, support, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and platforms
- Support application teams and services using a cloud-first approach
- Translate architectural designs into operational solutions
- Act as a technical product owner and develop medium- and long-term product strategies
- Coach and mentor engineers and develop cloud engineering capability
- Promote knowledge sharing and good engineering practice
- Contribute to the Cloud Engineering community
Skills
AzureNode.jsAWSTerraformArgo CDCloudFormationEKSInstanaAWS LambdaPagerDuty
Languages
Node.js
Work schedule
Full-time roles are 37 hours per weekMinimum 35 hours per week for part-time arrangementsFlexible workingPart-time and job-share optionsPossible on-call rota covering 17:00–07:00 weekdays and 24-hour periods on weeke
Industry
GovernmentPublic sectorDigital servicesCloud computing
Security clearance
Security Check (SC) requiredAt least 5 years of continuous UK residency required for vettingBasic criminal record checkBaseline Personnel Security Standard checks
Relocation
No