Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Are you passionate about IT and ready to embrace a new challenge? Can you effectively support large scale IT services? The DVLA and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Wintel) to help manage and maintain the core infrastructure that underpins DVLA's production services. £44,445 plus up to £14,756 Government Digital and Data (GDaD) Allowance and up to £4000 out of hours allowance and excellent Civil Service benefits and 28.97% pension. Flexible, hybrid working from Swansea, a great place to work, live and play, with a healthy work-life balance on how and where you work.

Job description

In this role, you'll be responsible for managing, supporting, designing and building some of the core infrastructure services that power both internal operations and public-facing services and play a key role in developing and maintaining robust infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities

To support, maintain, administer and build Windows/VMware infrastructure to ensure services are integrated, delivered and operated as required

To work with and support colleagues, taking ownership for complex infrastructure issues, engaging and co-ordinating across multiple infrastructure and application areas until resolution is achieved.

For further information about the role please see the attached role profile.

Person specification

About You

You will already be an experienced, Senior Infrastructure specialist with comprehensive knowledge of Windows Server, along with relevant ancillary products, including clustering and you will also have an equal level of experience in supporting, maintaining, administering and building VMware ESXi infrastructure.

You will be proactive in maintaining and monitoring systems to ensure remedial steps are taken before issues arise but also comfortable and confident when reacting to issues if they do occur as well as being self-assured in acting as an escalation point for more junior engineers.

You should be adept in problem solving and be able to demonstrate a methodical and thorough approach to troubleshooting.

You will also possess excellent communication and team working skills, and be capable of acting as an escalation point for issues experienced between application and infrastructure teams, working in a collaborative manner to achieve resolution.

How to Apply

For this role you will need to submit a CV and personal statement of up to 750 words. For your CV and personal statement, please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following essential criteria:

• Ability to demonstrate that you have thorough and comprehensive experience in supporting, maintaining, administering and building Windows Server infrastructure.
• Demonstrate the same level of experience in supporting, maintaining, administering and building VMware ESXi infrastructure.
• Providing excellent communication and team working skills, and be capable of acting as an escalation point for issues experienced between application and infrastructure teams, working in a collaborative manner to achieve resolution

For more information or an informal chat, please reach out