Software Infrastructure Engineer Milton Keynes, England
Job description
Looking for job security? How about National Security?
You’ll bring your technical expertise and ideas to create and maintain bespoke software products to help our customers protect National Security at home and overseas.
Joining a team of developers, your work will be essential to helping to protect the UK and its people. You may not know all the details yet, but you soon will.
From designing systems and understanding your users, to configuring and managing virtual or physical hardware. Whether your preference is in the secure communications team, or the Android security team, your work will deliver impact here unlike anywhere else.
Technical Skills
Our role is based on the DDaT Infrastructure Engineer, that means we need you to already be able to:
- Design, configure, code (where necessary) infrastructure components and systems.
- Deploy physical or virtual infrastructure without supervision.
- Be familiar with the fundamental components of infrastructure in one eco-system, e.g., Windows servers and roles, Linux equivalents or cloud services that fulfil the same responsibilities.
The following are desirable and would strengthen your application:
- Experience of Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline technologies
- Experience of automation and infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, PowerShell etc.
- Qualifications or experience of networking fundamentals such as TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP and Python etc. which may include Cloud certifications, Cisco qualifications, a Degree or in-role experience.
Your personal skills
You will be the type of person who:
- Is keen to learn and continually improve both technical and non-technical skills
- Enjoys working with other skilled engineers, combining your collective knowledge to produce better results
- Likes seeing things through to the end. You have the drive to finish projects to a high standard without getting stuck on adding extra features
- Enjoys the challenge of thinking of innovative solutions to hard problems. You know when to step away from best practice
- Can manage your own workload and is able to adapt to changing demands on your time
- Recognises performance in others and encourages them to build on their strengths
- Puts plans in place to make improvements
- Works with customers to clearly understand their desired outcomes and expectations
Putting your skills to use
You’ll get involved in the full process using your skills and experience to create a wide range of components whilst working with a variety of customers and design engineers. You can be creative, working in your own way towards delivery.
Using your diverse range of skills, you will:
1. Design, develop and document infrastructure systems to the highest standards
2. Verify designs by creating and implementing functional tests and integration tests
3. Support products and investigate reported issues
4. Contribute to project planning and meetings
5. Support junior members of the team to develop their skills
6. Take technical ownership of modules through their lifetime
What we Offer
Now that we’ve explained a bit about what you will be doing, here’s what we can offer you:
- 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 after 5 years’ service.
- 2 ½ additional days leave (set dates through the year).
- Paid overtime or time off in lieu. Your salary is for your contracted hours. If you’re asked to work more, we believe you should be rewarded for that.
- Training. Lots and lots of training. This can be anything from a ½ day internal course to a distant learning degree. If it’s relevant to your career, we will aim to support you.
- Pension. Our Pension scheme is Alpha. It’s competitive.
- Sports & Social Society. Whether its classic cars or baking, golf or crafting, we have a society for you.
- On site nursery (subject to availability).
- 3 days paid leave a year to support a registered charity of your choice.
- Free parking.
- Free onsite gym, open 24 hours a day
- Affinity Groups – whether you are disabled, LGBTQ+ and/or from an Ethnic Minority. We provide an inclusive environment and support for everyone.
About HMGCC
We’re HMGCC, His Majesty’s Government Communications Centre. You may not have heard of us before. It’s OK, we’re used to it! That’s because our customers are other UK Government Departments. Using our collective expertise, we develop communication systems for our customers that are innovative, reliable and totally secure to protect national security at home and overseas.
We invest in our people, not only with training but also support throughout your career with us; to allow you to reach your full potential at work, as well as enjoy the work/life balance many aspire to.
To find out more about us and if we’re right for you, please click here.
Equal Opportunities
Inclusion & Diversity really matters to us. It's not just about numbers or visible differences.
HMGCC are committed to providing equal opportunities and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities or who are neurodiverse.
We’re not looking for any one type of person. We’re looking for talent from all different backgrounds to join our organisation, where we genuinely respect and value each other's differences, as well as our similarities. It makes us even better at what we do.
HMGCC is proud to hold the status of Disability Confident Employer. In line with this, we offer the Disability Confident - Offer of Interview. To find out more and how you can apply under this scheme, please click here.
Apply now
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Our Recruitment Team will process your application once the role has closed and everyone will get a response.
Please note dependent on the recruitment requirements, we withhold the right to bring forward the closing date for this role from the original closing.
