43336 - Lead Infrastructure Engineer

£50,549 - £81,967 (Salary will depend on location)
Total pay in the range of '£50,001 to £60,000, £60,001 and over' are subject to capability, skills and experience. Salary may consist of base pay and a Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA)
1
12 Months
London, National
Birmingham , Glasgow , London, Nottingham , Sheffield
AXIS BIRMINGHAM, B1 1TG, BELGRAVE CENTRE FLOOR 1 NOTTINGHAM, NG1 5GG, GLASGOW CICAP, G2 8GT, NOMS DIGITAL STUDIO SHEFFIELD, Greenfield House, 32 Scotland Street, Sheffield, S3 7DQ, S3 7DQ, 10 SOUTH COLONNADE LONDON, E14 4PU
Grade 7, Grade 6
Ac
Permanent
Full Time
Digital

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce and pride ourselves as being an employer of choice. To find out more about how we champion diversity and inclusion in the workplace, visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity

Salary:

London; £60’772 - £76’000

National; £50’549 - £70’370

Contract type: Permanent

Grade: MoJ Band Ac

Number of open roles: 4

Location: London/National

London/Birmingham/Sheffield/Nottingham/Glasgow

Hours: 37 hours/week (42 hours incl. lunch)

Working pattern: Full Time/Flexible Working

 

Introduction

The MoJ’s Cloud DevOps team is transforming the ability for the department to support technology services, by providing hosting services with ops tools and best practices embedded. The value the team delivers is multiplied across over a hundred services that make the justice system better for users. We use modern best practices like DevOps, agile and GitOps, use cloud native architectures, work in the open and prefer modern open source tools.

 

The Role

You will lead, build, maintain and support user-centred, open source systems to serve a variety of government needs. Be responsible for automating the deployment of systems that follow standard patterns, or components of systems that are more complex. Manage infrastructure for multiple environments through code and build tools to automate infrastructure management tasks.

The role will provide a dedicated 3LS support function, dealing with service requests and tickets and be part of a team responding to major incidents. Occasionally participate in support during Out of Hours (OoH) (for which you’ll be paid an allowance and further payment when dealing with incidents). Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, growing awareness, inclusivity and balance.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

 

Capabilities 

You may be fit for this role if you:

  • Have worked with public cloud providers such as Azure/AWS Cloud in a production system.
  • Have working knowledge of Azure Pipelines, Repos, Artefacts & Boards
  • Or Have working knowledge of AWS Account structure, EC2, Lambda, S3 & ELK
  • Working knowledge of the use of programming languages such as Python, GO, Ruby etc
  • Working knowledge and understanding of version control (ideally with Git)
  • Leadership skills in the use of containers, distributed schedulers, and IaC.
  • Expert working knowledge of container orchestration such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm
  • Experience defining a solution using configuration management tools such as Terraform
  • Have expert knowledge of monitoring and proactive alerts using CloudWatch or similar
  • Enjoy learning and helping others (Working Together)
  • Hold yourself and others to a high standard (Leadership)
  • Solve problems in a systematic way (Delivering at pace)

You’ll value:

  • Continuous learning and development, and building the capability of the wider team
  • Being inclusive, supportive, inquisitive and responsible (MoJ D&T core values)
  • Working with integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality (Civil Service core values)

 

We use:

Ruby and Go

Kubernetes, Docker, EKS, Kops

Azure Pipelines / AWS for most of our infrastructure

Terraform for infrastructure provisioning

Ansible for application provisioning

Grafana as our visualisation layer

Prometheus for metrics aggregation

GitHub for source code

Cloudwatch for integrated monitoring

...plus many other tools (details in our architecture diagram)

..plus many other tools (details in our architecture diagram)

 

If this sounds like an exciting challenge and you want to join our team please read on and apply!

  • A generous pension scheme on average of up to 22%
  • 25 days leave, plus bank holidays, plus 1 privilege day usually taken around the Queens’ birthday
  • 5 additional days of leave once you have reach 5 years in post
  • Flexible working - whether it’s working from home or remotely, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours, we have people doing it and are happy to discuss options with you
  • Access to industry leading training and development through Civil Service Learning, GDS Academy and Pluralsight
  • Great maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave, 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!
  • Bike loans and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
  • Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers, and eye-care vouchers.
  • Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.
  • Up to 5 days paid leave for voluntary work you may wish to undertake

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

 

How to Apply

All candidates must submit a CV and Statement of Suitability (of up to 500 words) which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

We recruit using the Success Profiles Framework and will assess your Experience and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

  • Delivering at Pace
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Developing Self and Others
  • Leadership

Your application will be reviewed and sifted against the Person Specification by a diverse panel.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on Technical Expertise will be conducted prior to the sift.

 

Further Information

Please review the following Terms & Conditions which set out the way we recruit and provide further information related to the role.

Please note for existing civil servants successful in this role, the position would be offered as a departmental loan with the option to extend further or make permanent at a later date.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk

DDat

09/05/2021, 23:55 hours.

If you require any assistance please call 0845 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com Please quote the job reference - 43336.

To apply for roles in MOJ you will need to confirm your employment history for at least 3 years prior to the date of application so that pre-employment checks (BPSS) can be undertaken. If you have spent significant time abroad (a total of 6 months in the past 3 years) you would be required to give a reasonable account of the reasons why. 

For some roles you will be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting at Counter Terrorism (CTC), Security Clearance (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level as a condition of appointment. To meet CTC/SC/DV requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3/5/10 years prior to the date of application (The level of checks that are required are stated in the advert).

If you do not meet the above requirements, you may still be considered if, for example:

  • You've been serving overseas with HM Forces or in some other official capacity as a representative of HM Government
  • You were studying abroad
  • You were living overseas with parents

In such cases you will need to be able to provide referee cover for the period(s) of residence overseas. The duration of overseas residence and the country of abode will also be taken into account.

Success Profiles will enable a fairer and more inclusive method of recruitment by enabling us to assess the range of experiences, abilities, strengths, behaviours and technical/professional skills required for different roles. This flexible approach to recruitment focuses more on finding the right candidate for the specific role. To find out more about Success Profiles to support your application please click here for further guidance.

if you feel that your application has not been treated in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance

We have provided detail of the assessment stages and areas being assessed to help you prepare for completing your application form, and to advise of what will be assessed following this, if you successfully pass the application stage.


Application form stage assessments

Interview stage assessments

There is 1 interview stage for this vacancy.

A Great Place to Work for Veterans

The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs. Allowing veterans to continue to serve their country, and to bring highly skilled individuals with a broad range of experience into the Civil Service in an environment, which recognises and values your previous service in the Armed Forces.
For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

Redeployment Interview Scheme

Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.

MoJ are able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidate's will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.

For further information and to apply for this position please see the following link: https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=o8ffffwB&s=Civil_Service_jobs.

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) https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families

· 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) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules

This Vacancy is closed to applications.