About the job

Job summary

This position is based nationally

Job description

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Engineer  

Location: National

Closing Date: 7th January

Interviews: w/c 22nd January

Grade: G7 

Salary:

National: £54358 - £69150 (which may include an allowance of up to £14792)

London: £58847 - £73875 (which may include an allowance of up to £15028)

Working pattern: Full time, Part time, Flexible working

Vacancy number: 82698

*We are currently offering hybrid working which includes 2 days per week in your local office. Office locations can be found HERE

The Role 

We’re recruiting for an Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Engineer here at MoJ End User Compute (EUC) Virtual Desktop Services Team. You will be responsible for development activities across our two products: AVD and Citrix. These are exciting times at Justice Digital. We have a clear vision - to develop a digitally enabled justice system that works simply for its users - and we’re looking for enthusiastic, talented people to help us achieve it. 

We’re making things better by building adaptable, effective services and making systems that are simple to use for staff and citizens. It can be challenging but it’s also important and rewarding. 

As well as doing interesting work, we’re creating an environment that’s great to work in. We provide the opportunity to work with the latest technologies and offer brilliant training opportunities alongside support from expert colleagues. On top of that, you’ll find flexible working, an inclusive culture, and a place where your opinion is valued. 

Find out more about the work digital Justice get involved in, see the online blog, https://mojdigital.blog.gov.uk/ 

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025 

We really want to hear from people who value making a difference and building user-focused services and enjoy working in a multi-disciplinary, highly collaborative team that use modern tools and working practices.

Key Responsibilities:

As an AVD Engineer in EUCS, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain the AVD infrastructure to ensure high availability and scalability to serve Government needs.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to optimise performance, reliability, and security.
• Implement and manage Azure tooling such as Azure Monitor, Azure Key Vault, Azure Active Directory.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Technical Architects to set product direction
• Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developers, and maintain DevOps culture. 

We are looking for hard working VDI Professionals with experience in Citrix, with the ability to think on their feet, ask questions, bring multiple departments together to solve issues and learn new technologies within a fast-paced collaborative environment.

Person Specification:

Essential:

• Experience with VDI technologies such as AVD and Citrix, including image management, deployment, monitoring and maintenance. Extensive knowledge of Citrix on Premise and Citrix Cloud.
• Experience of modern development and deployment techniques.
• Experience working in a mixed skillset team in an agile, fast-paced, working environment.
• Experience using containers, distributed schedulers, and minimal operating systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a systematic approach to problem solving.
• Good understanding of the Microsoft Azure platform and experience of Azure Virtual Desktop deployment and management.
• Open to learn new technologies, new ways of working and new processes whilst maintaining high standards of technical expertise.
• You will have experience of two or more of the following technologies; Nerdio, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, roadmap, Powershell, Json scripting, Jira, Confluence, Miro or Defender for Cloud.

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC Clearance.

In the Civil Service, we use Success Profiles, a flexible framework, to assess candidates against a range of elements using a variety of selection methods, therefore giving you the opportunity to demonstrate the various elements required to be successful in the role. 

At the interview we will be assessing your technical/specialist skills and experience, testing your ability through relevant assessments and asking you questions around the behaviours we require to be successful in this role.

The behaviours we will assess the following for this vacancy: 

• Working together 
• Developing self and others 
• Changing and improving 
• Managing a quality service 

Throughout the process we will assess your technical specialist skills and experience on the above requirements. 

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply! 

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate on the basis of culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.  

Our values are Purpose, Humanity, Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace. 

Benefits 

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours. 
• We are committed to nurturing our staff and provide lots of training and development opportunities with learning platforms such as: Linux Academy, O’Reilly, Pluralsight, Microsoft Learning, Civil Service Learning, GDS Academy, etc. 
• 10% dedicated time to learning and development with a budget of £1000 a year per person 
• Generous civil service pensionbased on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 26-30% depending on salary. 
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the King’s birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service. 
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, 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! 
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.  
• Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Careers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUDand SPIRIT 
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location) 
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers. 
• 5 days volunteering paid leave. 
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. 
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym. 

How to Apply 

Candidates must submit a CV and Supporting statement (no more than 750 words) which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above. 

In D&T, we recruit using a combination of the Digital, Data and Technology Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience and Technical Skills. 

Your application will be reviewed against the Person Specification above 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 [Pre-Sift Criteria] will be conducted prior to the sift. 

Terms & Conditions 

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

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

 

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £54,358, Ministry of Justice contributes £15,165 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to Apply 

Candidates must submit a CV and Supporting statement (no more than 750 words) which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above. 

In D&T, we recruit using a combination of the Digital, Data and Technology Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience and Technical Skills. 

Your application will be reviewed against the Person Specification above 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 [Pre-Sift Criteria] will be conducted prior to the sift. 

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 (opens in a new window).

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

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)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.