About the job

Job summary

This position is based Nationally

Job description

Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud Ops)

Location: National

Closing Date: 3rd July

Interviews: w/c 15th July

Grade: 7 

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

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 

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. 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Vacancy number: 88130

*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 for Senior Cloud Ops Engineers here at  Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative MoJ End User Compute (EUC) Core Infrastructure Team. 

This role aligns against G7 Senior Infrastructure Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

You will be responsible for infrastructure primarily in Azure, in our own datacentres, and spanning them both. 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. 

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 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 uses modern tools and working practices. 

Key Responsibilities: 

As a Senior Cloud Ops Engineer in EUCS, you will;

• Develop and administer CI/CD pipelines in Azure Devops.
• Design, build, and maintain our core EUC infrastructure including computing, storage, physical infrastructure, virtualised instances and cloud computing. 
• Work with and support third party suppliers in providing infrastructure services.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to optimise performance, reliability, and security.
• Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, communicating technical concepts effectively at levels appropriate to different audiences.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Technical Architects to set product direction and provide input into technology roadmaps.

We are looking for enthusiastic Professionals with solid fundamental IT knowledge, who have a passion for modern ways of working learning, take joy in learning new technologies, but equally up to the challenge of untangling legacy solutions along the way.

Person Specification

Essential: 

• Experience with enterprise scale Infrastructure and Management, Data, Storage, Virtual Machines and backup.
• Experience of scripting and automation with a "code first" approach. Utilising for example PowerShell, Terraform, Azure CLI, Azure DevOps, Github.
• Strong troubleshooting skillset, capable over multiple technologies and able to break a problem down into component parts.
• Comfortable working in a mixed skillset team in an agile, fast-paced, working environment.
• Open to learning new technologies, new ways of working and new processes whilst maintaining high standards of technical expertise.
• Experience with Cloud First, Infrastructure as Code and DevOps culture.

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.

 Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ 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.
• 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.

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 a personal statement (max 750 words), which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

Candidates who do not submit both a CV and a separate statement of suitability will not be invited to interview.

Within your statement of suitability, please focus on demonstrating how you meet the following essential criteria which are being assessed at the pre-sift or sift stages;

• Experience of scripting and automation with a "code first" approach. Utilising for example PowerShell, Terraform, Azure CLI, Azure DevOps, Github.
• Strong troubleshooting skillset, capable over multiple technologies and able to break a problem down into component parts.
• Experience with Cloud First, Infrastructure as Code and DevOps culture.

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

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

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.

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 your experience of Azure will be conducted before the sift.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how 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

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.