Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Data Centre

The Home Office has several Data Centres that form an on-premise hosting for a variety of services. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer working as a Data Centre Manager you will be part of the Co-Location Services team, working alongside other Infrastructure Engineers to ensure that these facilities operate in accordance with Departmental Policies, Standards and industry best practices.

The role encompasses the maintenance of the Data Centre infrastructure throughout service and asset lifecycles as well as working with projects to deliver solutions using the latest technologies. An important element of which is the management of, and collaboration with, suppliers, Technical/Solution Architects and other specialists to deliver sustainable solutions.

In addition, you will support the management of the Co-Location Service offerings and work with teams across the Home Office to develop these services to meet future demand.

• Data Centre operations, managing the design and physical installation of infrastructure, e.g. cabling, hardware, and core services.
• Working as a part of multi-disciplined teams, building strong partnerships internally & externally to ensure adherence to engineering principles, standards and policies Developing tooling systems, DCIM, SNOW to integrate and automate processes.
• Managing third parties delivering services to ensure policies and standards are met.
• Different methodologies including Agile, Waterfall and continuous integration principles for the delivery of IT Infrastructure and other projects.
• Defining best practice for operational improvements and security, including the testing of services to provide feedback/evidence to support continuous service improvement.
• Working in a product orientated environment, developing products/offering based on customer feedback and demand.
• A civil service pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%.

Salary: £46,062 plus up to £11,338 skills allowance, pending assessment, * The ability to potentially adopt flexible working options that suit your work/life balance, plus the opportunity in future to take a career break.

• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
• Eight days public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
• 26 weeks maternity, adoption or shared parental leave at full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, after qualifying service.
• Maternity and adoption support leave (also known as paternity leave) of two weeks full pay, after qualifying service.
• Paid leave for fostering approval processes, support when a child is substantively placed with you plus a foster to adopt policy.
• Support for guardians and kinship carers.
• Corporate membership of ‘Employers for Carers’ providing additional information and advice for carers, plus a ‘Carer’s Passport’ to discuss workplace needs and underpin supportive conversations.
• Time off to deal with emergencies and certain other unplanned special circumstances.