Infrastructure Engineer - Network Automation

£42,914 - £53,081

The national salary range is £42,914 - £46,182, London salary range is £49,325 - £53,081. Your salary will be dependent on your base location

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Salary**: National £42,914-£51,675- which may include an allowance of - £8,761; London £49,325-£56,050 - which may include an allowance of £6,725.

Benefits

You'll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
• 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King's birthday.
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work-life balance.
• Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Salary Information**

Base salary for this role is from National: £42,914 - £46,182, London: £49,325 - £53,081

• New entrants to the Civil Service joining the MoJ are expected to start at the minimum of the pay band.
• Existing Civil Servants moving on a level transfer will retain their current base salary or move to the minimum of the pay band for the role, whichever is higher.
• Existing Civil Servants who are promoted will either move to the bottom of the new grade's pay band or receive a 10% uplift, whichever provides the greater increase.
• Candidates may also be eligible for a non‑pensionable Government Digital & Data Allowance of up to £8,761 per year (National) or £6,725 (London). This is a temporary allowance, reviewed annually and may be retained, amended, or withdrawn.

The final offer will reflect the skills and experience you demonstrate during the assessment process.

Alongside your salary of £42,914, Ministry of Justice contributes £12,432 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Please refer to Job Description

Location: National*

The Role

We're recruiting for Infrastructure Engineers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Digital Infrastructure and Security Operations (DISO) area.

This role aligns against Infrastructure Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework

DISO is part of Technology Services in Justice Digital, Data and Science, a modern and diverse workplace that promotes a healthy work-life balance and flexible working options. DISO designs, builds and supports user-centred digital and technology services for the justice system: services that make a real difference to our staff and users. Millions of people every year interact with our services, and DISO plays an important role in improving access to justice and making communication and connectivity experiences simpler and more efficient for all users.

We want to hear from people who want to make a difference by building excellent services that meet user needs and change their experience by creating a simpler, faster and better system for everyone. Our mission is to deliver a world-class justice system that works for everyone in society.

As an Infrastructure Engineer at MoJ, you will work with colleagues across Technology Services and build strong relationships with Service Owners, Information Security, Customer Service Operational Teams, Delivery Managers, Product Managers and other key stakeholders. You will share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community. You will be comfortable working across multi-disciplinary teams and flexible enough to adjust, at short notice, to immediate demand.

The role will provide a dedicated 3LS support function dealing with service requests, tickets and major incidents. Occasionally you will participate in support during Out of Hours (OOH), for which you'll be paid an allowance and further payment if dealing with incidents.

Key Responsibilities

• Core Network Services: Configure, support and maintain the Ministry of Justice's core network services, including DNS, DHCP, Network Access Control and SolarWinds. Undertake assigned engineering work to help ensure these services remain secure, resilient, highly available and aligned with departmental technology standards. Identify service, lifecycle and supportability issues and implement agreed fixes and improvements.
• Network Automation Engineering: Develop, configure, test and maintain automation solutions that support the delivery and operation of core network services. Develop Infrastructure as Code, scripts, APIs and automated workflows, using agreed engineering patterns and development practices to automate provisioning, configuration, monitoring and operational processes. Use source control and CI/CD pipelines to support controlled development, testing and deployment.
• Technical Design & Systems Integration: Implement agreed technical designs and engineering patterns to deliver secure and maintainable infrastructure and automation solutions. Develop and maintain integrations between automation platforms, cloud services, enterprise network services and operational tooling using APIs and other agreed integration methods. Identify technical dependencies, constraints and integration issues and contribute technical information to the development of solutions
• Security, Performance & Service Reliability: Apply secure engineering practices when developing, configuring and supporting automation and infrastructure services. Monitor platform health, performance and capacity and identify vulnerabilities, unsupported components, lifecycle risks and technical debt. Test technical changes and follow agreed deployment, release and change management processes.
• Specialist Support & Incident Resolution: Provide specialist technical support for automation platforms, scripts, integrations and associated network services. Take ownership of assigned technical issues until they are resolved, mitigated or appropriately transferred. Implement agreed fixes and workarounds, contribute to root-cause analysis and maintain appropriate known-error and support information. Participate in agreed specialist or out-of-hours support arrangements where required.
• Engineering Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with Senior and Lead Engineers, Architects, Product Managers, Delivery Managers, Operations and Security teams and suppliers to deliver reliable infrastructure and automation services. Participate in peer review of code, configurations and technical changes and contribute to technical discussions and engineering best practice. Coordinate dependencies with other engineering and operational teams, communicate progress, blockers and risks, and engage suppliers on assigned technical matters. Share technical knowledge and lessons learned with colleagues, contribute to the wider Networks engineering community and support Associate Engineers with defined automation tasks where appropriate.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve existing automation, reduce manual or repetitive activity, address technical debt and enhance service reliability. Contribute suggestions for improving development, testing and deployment practices and continue developing network, cloud, platform, coding and integration skills.

Permanent

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Job share

Contract Type: Permanent

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

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If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Please refer to attached Job Description

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

Terms & Conditions

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk

• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
• Telephone : 0345 241 5359

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