Infrastructure Hosting Engineer (Band 4/HEO)

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is Britain’s national regulator of workplace health and safety. We are dedicated to protecting people and places and helping everyone lead safer and healthier lives.

Technology, data, and digital services underpins everything that HSE does. We are a knowledge organisation, with a wealth of experience in keeping people safe. It is the responsibility of the Technology Division to ensure that everyone in the organisation can access our data and information, to share it and to use it to make effective decisions. We support over 3000 colleagues working in a hybrid style at home and in 26 offices across Great Britain. Our services keep inspectors functioning effectively and efficiently on industrial sites nationwide, from oil platforms in the North Sea to our deepest mines and quarries.

We strive to constantly improve the technologies and services supporting the organisation. Our end user computing devices are leading edge, and we are making significant progress in delivering new cloud based services. Our service management and information management services are very highly regarded within the organisation and pride themselves on excellent customer service. Our commercial team has built strong relationships with suppliers and our project management team is embedded in our corporate change programme, transforming the older legacy systems that have underpinned the organisation for a long time.

Working Pattern

Part time working hours are available for this role. We can accept part time applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 30 hours per week.

Flexible working with working patterns will be agreed by your Line Manager which may include some Saturday work. 37-hour week based on a 5-day working week & 7.4 hours day. You may be required to participate in an on-call rota. Occasional travel to other HSE offices and the 2nd data centre in Farnborough is also required., You will support the management of the HSE’s hosting infrastructure, ensuring that the infrastructure (data centres, servers, storage arrays, backup appliances, load balancers, etc) remains available, performant to SLAs/OLAs and relevant to business requirements. You may have line management responsibility for one or more Hosting Team members.

You will monitor the hosting infrastructure, investigating incidents, resolving problems, and developing and applying fixes and changes. Your role will deliver upgrades to the infrastructure, implement new functionality and seek to continuously improve the infrastructure to support the organisation in better ways. You will ensure that the infrastructure remains secure, protecting HSE’s data and users from cyber-attack and unauthorised loss. You will engage with users, supporting their needs, and ensuring that a high-quality, customer-focused service is delivered., * Support the leadership and management of the Hosting Team. This may include line management of one or more Hosting Team members.

• Support the delivery of high standards of user and customer focus, ensuring that services are delivered to SLAs and to customer satisfaction and routinely communicate with customers to promote confidence that incidents and requests are being progressed
• Support the delivery of event, incident, problem, capacity and change management by the Hosting Team
• Support the implementation of changes to the Hosting infrastructure, complying with change management, engaging with, users and ensuring that changes are understood and appropriate
• Maintain accurate configuration management information for the Hosting infrastructure
• Support monitoring the security of the Hosting infrastructure, defending against cyber-attack, preventing unauthorised access, unauthorised data exchange, and data-loss, HSE reserve the right to conduct additional checks, including Google and social media checks, when recruiting candidates into a role within HSE. These checks will be carried out in line with the Civil Service Commission Principles and, if used all candidates will be subject to these additional checks.

From 23rd June 2025, if you are successful at interview, as part of your pre-employment checks, HSE’s Recruitment Team are required to check your details against the Internal Fraud Hub (IFH), using your personal details – name, NINO, and date of birth. If you are included on the database, you will be refused employment. If you believe that there has been an error in the inclusion of your data and wish to make an appeal, please contact the CO email box internal.fraud@cabinetoffice.gov.uk .

Details of the types of internal fraud/dishonesty covered by this process are defined by the Cabinet Office and can be found here Internal Fraud Register privacy notice - GOV.UK It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the terms and conditions they will adopt should they be successful in their application. For a summary of HSE terms and conditions as part of Civil Service Reform, please see the attached HSE Terms and Conditions document.

Progression through pay ranges is subject to annual pay awards as permitted within annual Civil Service pay remit guidance and negotiations with Trade Unions.

HSE is proud to be a part of the Disability Confidence Scheme (DCS). As a Disability Confident employer, we positively welcome applications from disabled people. We are committed to making workplace adjustments to ensure anyone can participate in the recruitment and selection process.

If, during the application or interview process, you require any assistance due to a disability or a medical condition, please contact us at the email address below to discuss how we can support you. For example, if you have a disability, and you need an application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please contact HR.Resourcing-Team@hse.gov.uk

If successful in securing your role, HSE can provide suitable workplace adjustments to support you throughout your career with HSE.

Any move to HSE from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility here.

Please note, if you are a current civil servant and you are currently undergoing any of the following formal actions your application will not be progressed any further; Formal discipline action, any formal action regarding attendance, poor performance or any restriction of duties as a result of disciplinary action.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter . People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks., * 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)
• 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

Do you have experience in Virtualization?, * Experience working in hosting teams

• Experience delivering hosting services performant to SLAs and maintaining a strong customer focus
• Experience configuring and managing an industry-recognised server virtualisation hypervisor
• Experience configuring and managing physical compute and storage supporting an industry-recognised server virtualisation hypervisor
• Experience configuring and managing certificates to support host and identity management, * Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Managing a Quality Service, Due to the nature of security checks undertaken, applicants must have 3 years continuous residency in the UK up to the date of the application and, Home Office approval for indefinite leave to remain within the UK.

Alongside your salary of £38,005, Health and Safety Executive contributes £11,010 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

We invest in our people with;

• Competitive rates of pay
• Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme to which HSE contribute 27.1% far more than in the private sector.
• Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
• Carer friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture
• 25 days annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
• Parental leave benefits
• As a member of HSE you will gain access to a wide range of fantastic benefits that you can take advantage of such as the Cycle to Work Scheme, E-Gift Cards and Vouchers via our partner EdenRed