About the job

Job summary

This is a Nationally based role

Job description

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Location: National*

Closing Date: Tuesday 6th August

Interviews: w/c 19th August

Grade: 7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: London: £58,847- £78,225 (which may include an allowance of up to £19,378). National: £54,358- £73,450 (which may include an allowance of up to £19,092).

Please note, you will be required to take part in an on-call rota, sharing the responsibility of providing out of hours engineering cover for major incidents for which an additional allowance is payable.

Working pattern: Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible Working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 89104

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We’re recruiting a Lead Infrastructure Engineer here at Justice Digital to be part of our warm and collaborative End User Compute Services (EUCS) team. 

This role aligns against Lead Infrastructure Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

The EUCS Team design, deliver and support the core infrastructure and systems that enable End User Compute Services and line of business applications for over 100,000 Ministry of Justice users across over 800 locations.

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.

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

Please note: We have a number of roles available therefore, if you are not successful in this campaign, you may be offered a lower grade role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of Engineers within Data Services, instilling best practice and ensuring Service Level Agreements are consistently achieved.
• Design, build and run user-centric, modern EUC solutions and services that enable the Ministry of Justice to deliver services across the UK.
• Work with key suppliers to manage EUC infrastructure in multiple types of environments including cloud, data centres and MoJ sites.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of the most modern standards and practices, sharing with the wider team and Justice Digital community.
• Act as a technical subject matter expert providing advice, knowledge sharing, and technical assistance to other sections of EUCS and Justice Digital.
• Help to define and ensure best system design and solution design in your area.
• Leading engineering teams to implement scripting or tools, to automate. current manual processes minimising human effort.
• Own problems, proactively initiate and monitor actions to investigate patterns, trends and to resolve any blockages.
• Work collaboratively with other areas of EUCS and Justice Digital

The Lead Engineer will work collaboratively with:

• Lead Engineers
• Product Lead
• Technical Architecture and Service Operations teams
• 3rd party Service Managers, Project and Technical leads
• Senior Operations Managers within the EUC team
• Key MOJ stakeholders

Please note you will be required to take part in an on-call rota, sharing the responsibility of providing out of hours engineering cover for major incidents for which an allowance is payable.

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

Person Specification

Essential

• Evidence of experience in File and Data Management across a large Enterprise environment; able to detail specifics relating to Unstructured shared and personal data on platforms such as Share Point and Azure
• Evidence of experience working as a subject matter expert with Technical Expertise across File and Data management, including on premises and cloud native file services.
• System Design: you know how to select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively
• Working knowledge; applying relevant industry standards and best practices across the M365 product set.
• Working knowledge to act as a subject matter expert for their own area of technical specialism and be fully conversant with other complementary technologies.
• Skilled in leading and managing technical teams with recent experience delivering outcomes in this role.
• Experience of nurturing and developing an engineering team and champion continuous learning and development.
• Collaboration and partnership skills, with evidence of proven ability to work as part of a wider technical leadership team to deliver outcomes.
• Evidence of stakeholder management skills at all levels.
• Strong troubleshooting experience.

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for SC clearance

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

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 attached 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 both a CV and Personal Statement (maximum 750 words) which describe how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

Please note applications submitted without a Personal Statement will not be considered.

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Digital, Data and Technology Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

• Leadership
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others
• Communicating and Influencing

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. There will be a short technical assessment that will take place online prior to your interview.  Further details of this will be provided to candidates who are successful at sift in due course.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on ‘Evidence of experience in File and Data Management across a large Enterprise environment; able to detail specifics relating to Unstructured shared and personal data on platforms such as SharePoint and Azure’ will be conducted before 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.