Principal Applications Operations Engineer

at  Ministry of Justice

Salary
The national salary range is £68,967 - £78,842, London salary range is £73,115 - £83,585. Your salary will be dependent on your base location.
Total pay in the range of ‘£60,001 and over’ are subject to capability, skills and experience. Salary may consist of base pay and a Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA)
Number of jobs available
1
Detail of reserve list
12 Months
Region
National
City/Town
National
Building/Site

NATIONAL

Please note: Some of our MoJ Office locations, such as our Liverpool Justice Collaboration Centre, require higher levels of National Security Vetting. The MoJ is working to open more Justice Collaboration Centres and Justice Satellite Offices over time. Click here to learn more about where our currently open Justice Collaboration Centres and Justice Satellite Offices are, to identify where you may be based and understand National Security Vetting requirements of each location.
Grade
Grade 6
Organisation Grade for MoJ
Grade 6
Post Type
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full Time, Part Time, Flexible Working
Role Type
Digital
Will the successful applicant have line manager responsibilities?
Yes
Job description

OUR TECH ESTATE

We use a range of Oracle technologies, from databases through Enterprise Resource Planners (ERPs), which have all recently been rehosted to run in the cloud (AWS). We are looking for people who specialise in Oracle E-Business Suite and may have experience in Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite, Oracle Analytics Service (OAS), Oracle Identity and Access Management (IDAM), Oracle Access Manager (OAM), Oracle Intelligent Advisor (IAS), and Weblogic. All our services are in the cloud, and we continue to iterate and improve the infrastructure around them to be more resilient, performant, and cost-effective, relying on MoJ’s strategic hosting teams to help us maintain our services.
We’re happy to help you learn our tech estate once you’re part of our team, and do not require an exact match in your experience, although experience with ERPs is essential. On top of our Oracle tech, we are building new products using open-source technology and popular programming languages. We subscribe to the manifesto for agile software development, whilst also acknowledging our enterprise IT is not well-suited for agile delivery, and other traditional approaches may be needed.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

Our ideal candidate will bring experience in these four categories:

THE ROLE

We’re recruiting for a Principal Applications Operations Engineer here at Justice Digital, to support our warm and collaborative LAA Digital teams.
This role aligns against the Principal application operations engineer role from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) relies on decades of investment in Oracle enterprise products that comprise the foundation of our live services. We are looking for a compassionate and resilient technical leader to care for both our IT estate and the talent that keeps it working. Simultaneously, we are building new user-centred products and services using open source technologies in the cloud. We want to build a bridge between our live enterprise services and our new open-source products, using both to achieve transformative digital justice for users.
We have a large community of Application Operation Engineers, DBAs, Cloud Engineers, and Oracle specialists, critical to assuring live service and meeting ongoing business demand. We are looking for someone who can develop and nurture, as well as recruit and manage the people in these professions, and further contribute to our strategy as a department, ensuring our workforce plan includes the skills needed to deliver our strategy.
We have rapidly grown as a digital function, and now we need to grow our enterprise and operational capability to provide secure, resilient services, and to be able to manage change at pace within our critical technology and mature digital products. We strongly encourage empathetic approaches and cross functional working and are looking for people to help build on this culture of agility and openness.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Principal Applications Operations Engineer at the MoJ you will have technical and people responsibilities.