Are you passionate about IT and ready to embrace a new challenge? Can you effectively support large scale IT services? The DVLA and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Wintel) to help manage and maintain the core infrastructure that underpins DVLA's production services. Base pay of £42,848 plus up to £14,552 Government Digital and Data (GDaD) Allowance and excellent Civil Service benefits and 28.97% pension. Flexible, hybrid working from Swansea, a great place to work, live and play, with a healthy work-life balance on how and where you work.
Job description - About the Role and DVLA
Across our Information Technology Services (ITS) Directorate we design, develop, implement and support a multitude of services, managed both on and off premise, that reach every household in the UK and our infrastructure teams help deliver complex digital solutions to millions of users.
As an Agency we operate both legacy applications on older systems, as well as utilising modern technologies like cloud and serverless solutions, but whilst we migrate onto new technologies it is important that we maintain the stability and security of our existing systems.
We're looking for a skilled and motivated Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our dynamic team of infrastructure specialists.
In this role, you'll be responsible for managing, supporting, designing and building some of the core infrastructure services that power both internal operations and public-facing services and play a key role in developing and maintaining robust infrastructure solutions.
During a standard working week you will be expected to work on a rota basis to ensure that the team can provide cover between 07:00-17:00 Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays).
Additionally, there is currently an obligation for all DVLA staff to attend their primary workplace for a minimum of 60% of their contracted hours - the team attend site on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday each week to comply with this requirement and maximise collaborative opportunities.
There is also an opportunity to be available on a rota basis to cover/undertake out of hours activities and provide on call cover to support delivery of the service (17:00 - 07:00 Monday to Friday, 24/7 on weekends and on public holidays) for which an extra allowance of up to £4,000 will be paid.
Responsibilities
To support, maintain, administer and build Windows/VMware infrastructure to ensure services are integrated, delivered and operated as required
To work with and support colleagues, taking ownership for complex infrastructure issues, engaging and co-ordinating across multiple infrastructure and application areas until resolution is achieved.
For further information about the role please see the attached role profile.
Person specification
About You
You will already be an experienced, Senior Infrastructure specialist with comprehensive knowledge of Windows Server, along with relevant ancillary products, including clustering and you will also have an equal level of experience in supporting, maintaining, administering and building VMware ESXi infrastructure.
You will be proactive in maintaining and monitoring systems to ensure remedial steps are taken before issues arise but also comfortable and confident when reacting to issues if they do occur as well as being self-assured in acting as an escalation point for more junior engineers.
You should be adept in problem solving and be able to demonstrate a methodical and thorough approach to troubleshooting.
You will also possess excellent communication and team working skills, and be capable of acting as an escalation point for issues experienced between application and infrastructure teams, working in a collaborative manner to achieve resolution.
Responsibilities
To support, maintain, administer and build Windows/VMware infrastructure to ensure services are integrated, delivered and operated as required
To work with and support colleagues, taking ownership for complex infrastructure issues, engaging and co-ordinating across multiple infrastructure and application areas until resolution is achieved
How to Apply
For this role you will need to submit a CV and personal statement of up to 750 words. For your CV and personal statement, please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following essential criteria:
Ability to demonstrate that you have thorough and comprehensive experience in supporting, maintaining, administering and building Windows Server infrastructure.
Demonstrate the same level of experience in supporting, maintaining, administering and building VMware ESXi infrastructure.
Providing excellent communication and team working skills, and be capable of acting as an escalation point for issues experienced between application and infrastructure teams, working in a collaborative manner to achieve resolution
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