Infrastructure Engineer

Location:

Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham (Chadderton), Birmingham (Garretts Green), or Uxbridge.
This role is being advertised in Uxbridge, however the contractual base will be Yeading. While estates work is being carried out in Yeading all posts are being temporarily based at Uxbridge.
Successful applicants will start with us at our Uxbridge location. However, everyone will be required to work from Yeading when it reopens in 2028.
You will receive the London Weighting allowance of £4,000 while based at Uxbridge and this will continue when we move to Yeading.

Salary: £35,663 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Job summary

The DVSA plays a crucial role in maintaining safety standards on the roads, conducting tests, and overseeing vehicle-related matters in the UK.  The Cloud Infrastructure team supports the infrastructure that provides the services used by colleagues across the country, with a strong focus on user experience, appropriate security, continuous improvement, and sustainability.  

To achieve this the Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team provides second/third line IT support, acting as a middle ground between the Service Desk and dedicated SME support teams. We help to maintain and develop modern, cloud hosted IaaS and leverage Cloud solutions such as M365, Azure, Meraki, Dynamics, Intune, Apple Automated Device Enrolment and other technologies to continually modernise our estate. 

If you want to advance your IT career, are keen to take the opportunity to learn a broad range of skills across Platform, Digital Communications (Networks) and the Digital Workspace (End user devices), develop yourself and value an exciting, friendly, and healthy working environment, would like an opportunity to deliver a modern, high-quality digital experience, and want to make a real impact on road safety and sustainability, we’d love to hear from you. 

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including: 

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday 
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance. 

Job description

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Maintenance of core infrastructure services through incident and problem management. 
• Drive improvements to deliver new and updated core infrastructure services, according to business and user needs to ensure maximum value is achieved from services. 
• Drive automation throughout the core infrastructure estate. 
• System monitoring and maintenance, monitoring servers, networks, backups and end user devices to ensure optimal performance and uptime 
• Deploy and configure servers, end user device software, networking equipment, and enterprise software according to organizational standards. 
• Implement and maintain security controls, monitor for threats, and ensure adherence to regulatory requirements. 
• Maintain accurate documentation of infrastructure configurations, processes, and troubleshooting guides for team use. 
• Management of Junior Infrastructure Engineers 

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.  

Person specification

 We are looking for someone who: 

• Is a confident communicator and team player 
• Real interest in modern IT platforms 
• Has a drive for continuous improvement 
• A passion for delivering quality and results 
• Embraces new technologies to deliver the right solution 
• Has a strong willingness to continually develop and learn 

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for DVSA, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to our website to complete your application.