Senior Infrastructure Engineer

at  Department for Work and Pensions

JOB SUMMARY

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see ‘Selection process details’.
Are you a talented and highly skilled Infrastructure Engineer who can deliver, manage the Cloud Infrastructure in a safe, secure and reliable manner using Infrastructure as a code? Are you passionate about delivering digital solutions at scale using cutting edge technologies and work in a supported and established team?
The Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI) is a central platform to which national social security institutions connect to exchange information between each other. The exchanged information covers all 8 branches of social security coordination, which are sickness benefits, accidents at work and occupational disease benefits, family benefits, old-age pensions, pre-retirement and invalidity benefits, unemployment benefits. The institutions use the system to route structured electronic documents to their counterparties following agreed business processes (also known as “Business Use Cases”).
The EESSI initiative aims to improve the cross-border communication between the national social security institutions of 32 countries, by supporting an efficient transition to electronic exchange of data in order to reduce the period of co-existence of digital exchange with current paper procedures, and by increasing overall efficiency in social security coordination activity.
We currently have another vacancy within the team for a role at a lower grade - Infrastructure Engineer SEO.
If you feel like you meet the criteria, see the advert ref 382416.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for creating Infrastructure solutions using Architecture and Engineering principles with a focus on Operational stability, robustness, resilience, and availability of the services.
You will be part of Live Services Infrastructure team who will be collaborating with multiple fast-paced delivery teams, test engineers, build engineers and Live Services support teams.
The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will have a deep technical knowledge of the platform and understanding of various technologies and tools to be able to create solutions using ‘Infrastructure as a code’.
You will also have strong experience in troubleshooting and resolving infrastructure issues promptly, ensuring minimal disruption to critical services and pursue perfection to eliminate the root cause where possible.
You will be adept in implementing robust monitoring with proactive alerting of the events ahead of a potential incident, that could be intervened and averted. You will demonstrate a solid knowledge of networking, server administrations and virtualization technologies as well as proficiency in supporting Windows, Linux operating systems.
To help you really make a difference, you’ll be using the best tools and equipment for the job. We plan and track work in Jira, document in SharePoint, collaborate using Teams and Slack, build and deploy code using GitLab, use best-in-class cloud services from, Microsoft Azure.
To support you in your role, you’ll have access to some fantastic learning and development resources; conferences with industry expert speakers, comprehensive instructor-led training, and subscriptions to digital training solutions.
You will also have access to support through direct Slack channels with our partners such as Microsoft, UiPath and MongoDB for every day on the job learning.

You will

• Design and implement infrastructure services within Azure Cloud, collaborate with seniors and team leads and assist junior infrastructure engineers.
• Provide specialist technical support and assistance to projects ensuring definition and delivery of requisite non-functional requirements to architectural and roadmap developments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents, problems. Assess the change impact, plan and deliver changes safely with clear backout strategy.
• Provide technical support and assistance to the delivery teams and other stakeholders.
• Manage and update risk register for the technical area, provide reports of Service performance to Lead infrastructure engineer/Service Owner against agreed KPIs.
• Emphasis on cost optimization and Fin-Ops techniques to deliver cost-effective solutions and yet maintain robust, scalable solutions.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

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)

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