464130 Senior Platform Engineer
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 14th June 2026
📍 Location: Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham, Birmingham or Yeading (This role is suitable for hybrid working)
💷 Salary: £44,241 – Plus an additional Government Digital and Data Profession allowance up to £14,756.
Candidates based in Yeading will receive the London Weighting allowance of £4,000.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
🕘️ Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
🏆️ Available Positions: 6
We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to take a pivotal role in the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). You will drive technical delivery for large-scale, public-facing digital services, ensuring they are resilient, secure and cost‑effective, with a mandate for continuous improvement.
This senior role focuses on delivering digital change and embedding a code‑first approach to infrastructure. You will contribute to and support the implementation of enterprise technical strategy and standards across a mixed‑discipline team operating key digital services. Your expertise in Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) is essential for establishing consistent standards and an efficient path‑to‑live. You will ensure alignment with the Principal Cloud Engineer’s strategy while also helping shape delivery.
Our core platform relies on AWS, though knowledge across multiple cloud providers (Azure) and integrations (GitHub Actions etc.) is advantageous. We require an engineer with the leadership skills to guide teams with mixed maturity, elevating performance and embedding high engineering standards.
Top Responsibilities
- Hands-On Technical Delivery & Strategic Alignment: Provide hands-on technical direction and influence in project teams, ensuring their work is consistently aligned with the Principal Cloud Engineer’s technical strategy and Civil Service values.
- Standardisation & Governance: Adhere as well as continue to mature the definition, and enforcement of DevOps standards and procedures across the delivery lifecycle (IaC, CI/CD). Continuously review and provide hands-on assurance of the designs of others to embed security controls and high standards.
- Team Specialism Contribution: Act as a cloud and DevOps Subject Matter Expert to proactively collaborate and mentor other team members. This will include those with varying maturity levels, fostering a continuous learning environment and providing practical, technical support.
- Hands-On Cloud & Security Design: Contribute proactively to the design and architecture of highly available, cost-effective, and secure services on major cloud platforms (specifically AWS, with Azure awareness), ensuring solutions meet performance targets and business needs.
- Infrastructure Automation (IaC) Implementation: Drive the code-first implementation and hands-on automation of infrastructure using configuration management tools like Terraform and Puppet, prioritising and executing automation opportunities to improve delivery efficiency.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile attached to the vacancy, using the link provided.
Benefits
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 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.
- 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, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
- 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
About You
To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
- Experience showing leadership qualities within a scrum team to deliver technical excellence meeting the business requirements.
- Experience of cloud delivery and contributing to wider cloud maturity with mixed maturity teams.
- Experience delivering large scale, complex cloud deliverables in a highly regulated environment.
Additional Information
If successful you will be required to undergo BPSS and may also be required to gain SC clearance once in post.
Government Digital and Data Allowance
The role is part of the Government Digital and Data (or Government Security Profession Career Framework) profession and utilises an enhanced Capability–Based Pay Framework which provides access to a Digital and Data allowance.
The base pay is £44,241. In addition to this the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £14,756.
The value of allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated through the selection process.
How to Apply
👉 Read the full description and apply here: https://bit.ly/3QlXt6v
This vacancy closes at 23:55 on Sunday 14th June 2026
More Information
- APPLICATION LINK https://bit.ly/3QlXt6v
