Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Linux and DevOps)

Job summary

Help shape the Future of UK Government Digital Services as a Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Linux and DevOps) and push the boundaries of technology and make a tangible difference to the lives of millions. The Cabinet Office is at the heart of the UK Government, driving a ground-breaking Digital Transformation. We're striving to set a new global benchmark for digital services. Over the next three years, we're on a mission to make our digital offerings the best in the world and we need skilled individuals like you to help us get there.

Job description

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll be doing:

You'll be instrumental in shaping the infrastructure, network and cloud capabilities that support vital services for the Cabinet Office and its executive agencies, including Government Commercial Authority (GCA) and the Government Property Agency (GPA), impacting civil servants and ministerial bodies across the nation.

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Linux and DevOps), you won't just be maintaining systems, you'll be a key architect of our future infrastructure landscape. Working alongside Technical Architects and Principal Engineers, you'll design, maintain and upgrade our infrastructure, tackling challenges head on and ensuring seamless service delivery.

* Designing and implementing new services to meet the evolving needs of the Cabinet Office.

* Be a crucial point of escalation for our Live Service, diving deep into root cause analysis and finding effective solutions.

* Guiding and mentoring junior engineers, creating a collaborative and growth-oriented team environment.

* Managing and supporting our AWS cloud environment, including deploying new services via code.

* Maintaining and enhancing our infrastructure servers (Linux and Windows), with primary focus on the Linux servers.

* Line management and leadership of Senior Infrastructure Engineers.

* Working with cutting edge cloud technologies, contributing to the migration of existing systems and the implementation of innovative new solutions.

* Integrating and improving our existing processing systems to enhance performance.

* Maintaining the integrity, availability, performance and capacity of our infrastructure.

* Carrying out change control activities with precision and documenting our infrastructure.

Person specification

Requirements for the role:

• In depth understanding and experience of Linux, including configuration using infrastructure as code.
• Proven experience in AWS and infrastructure as code.
• Experience of change management processes.
• Experience working in an enterprise IT environment.
• Exceptional customer relationship and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust at all levels.
• Technical expertise in supporting and administering servers and IT infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring and trend analysis tools.
• Comprehensive knowledge of server and application hardening and security best practices.
• Understanding of Windows AD and related services such as DHCP, DNS, PKI, LDAP and Group Policy.
• Experience working with AWS Multi Account, EC2, VPCs and Route53.

Additional information:

Cabinet Office policy is that a minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. For some roles, due to their nature and the business need, this may be up to 100%. Requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• In depth understanding of Linux
• Proven experience in AWS and infrastructure as code
• Comprehensive knowledge of server and application hardening and security best practices.
• Experience with monitoring and trend analysis tools
• Infrastructure as code and Scripting

We only ask for evidence of these technical skills on your application form:

• In depth understanding of Linux
• Proven experience in AWS and infrastructure as code
• Comprehensive knowledge of server and application hardening and security best practices.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,204, Cabinet Office contributes £16,571 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).

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Our Application and Selection process ensures a comprehensive assessment of each applicant's skills, and potential fit within our organisation.

Application process

For your application, you will be required to provide the following:

• A CV
• Examples of Behaviours
• Examples of Technical skills

The CV will not be assessed and will be for reference only.

Sift

At sift you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements:

- Behaviours:

• Making Effective Decisions (lead behaviour)
• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service

- Technical Skills:

• In depth understanding of Linux
• Proven experience in AWS and infrastructure as code
• Comprehensive knowledge of server and application hardening and security best practices.

Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be undertaken using the Lead Behaviour, 'Making Effective Dec