Infrastructure Engineer (IT Systems Management Tooling Engineer) Department for Work & Pensions
Reference
28435
Number of vacancies
2
Location
Blackpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Salary
Upto - £39,674
Work hours
37.5
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
A brilliant Civil Service pension with employer contributions circa 20%, generous annual leave, flexible working, great work life balance and lots more.
Closing date
6 January 2020
Job description
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We’re looking for talented Infrastructure Engineer with a background in IT Systems Management Tooling to join our growing community of experts and become a key part of one of the biggest and highest-profile digital transformation programmes in the world.
Using fresh ideas and leading edge technologies – and putting the user at the centre of everything we do – we create innovative digital solutions that make a difference to the lives of our 22 million users.
You and your role
You’ll join a , and a wider infrastructure community, committed to designing, developing, deploying and supporting core IT services that DWP systems that are used by millions of people in every day.
These services provide the monitoring necessary to know how healthy a network, server or application is and how datacentres are structured. We also enable capture of Software Asset information so our central Asset team can make sure we are correctly and efficiently licensed.
You will also assist with managing the platform and underlying infrastructure that allows remote access to the DWP datacentres for engineers across the Digital organisation.
You should be confident remotely accessing servers via Remote Desktop Services. We operate a variety of systems including Windows and various flavours of UNIX.
In addition to our datacentre hosted servers we also work with servers located in various public clouds so knowledge of these would be beneficial. And if not you’ll have chance to learn on the job from a range of experienced engineers and other digital experts from across a multi-disciplinary operation.
What are we looking for?
• You have experience of IT Infrastructure services or applications within a large scale organisation.
• You have experience of troubleshooting and resolving issues involving technologies across a variety of platforms.
• You can communicate effectively at different levels, across support and engineering, business users, architecture and suppliers.
• You have deployed technologies across a variety of IT platforms.
• You keep up to date with changing technologies and understand how they could be applicable to the current business.
• You have experience of working within an ITIL framework.
Knowledge/ Experience of software used to support the following technologies is desirable too:
• Systems Management
• Event Management
• Discovery Tooling
• Automated Patching
• Software Asset Management
• Application Performance Management
• Network Performance Management
• Data Centre Infrastructure Management.
Where You’ll Work
You’ll join us in one of our easy-to-reach digital hubs in Newcastle, Blackpool or Manchester. Find out more here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/our-locations/
We’re the UK’s biggest government department with over 80,000 diverse and brilliant people on our team. We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.
Our Offer
In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £39,674, a brilliant civil service pension, and a generous leave package.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Volunteering and charitable giving
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Learning and training opportunities, including coaching, mentoring, events, community meet ups and lots more
• Clear career paths and opportunities to progress
HOW TO APPLY: For further information and to start an application click apply now. If you would like to discuss this role and our offer contact me via viv.vayuapooree@dwp.gov.uk