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Lead Linux Infrastructure Engineer
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Lead Linux Infrastructure Engineer

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office -
East Kilbride

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Permanent | Full-time
£57,500 - £75,400 a year
7 days ago

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Pay rise

Qualifications

Jira
Technical troubleshooting
Cloud infrastructure
Incident management
Ansible
IT team management
MongoDB
Network infrastructure
Presentation skills
Confluence
Systems engineering
Information technology team management
Technical roadmaps
Leadership

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Reference number

474836

Salary

£57,500

The salary for this role at Grade 7 starts at £57,500 per annum.

A specialist allowance of up to £9,200 per annum (non-contractual, non-consolidated and non-pensionable) may be offered based on the candidates demonstrated skills, competence and experience at interview. This allowance will be subject to regular review and may be changed or removed with written notice. In total, your package could reach up to £75,400, plus excellent benefits and opportunities for professional development.

Existing Civil Servants
For existing Civil Servants, usual FCDO rules for starting pay on level transfer will apply. The candidates current salary will be transferred to FCDO payroll, subject to the FCDO grade maximum. Any amount above the FCDO grade maximum will be retained on a mark time basis and eroded by future salary increases. No existing allowances will be honoured by the FCDO. For candidates applying on promotion, salary will be set at either a 10% increase on existing salary, or the higher grade pay band minimum, whichever is greater.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Grade 7

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

FCDO - Chief Operating Officer

Type of role

Engineering
Information Technology

Working pattern

Full-time

Number of jobs available

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Location

East Kilbride

About the job

Job summary

Right now, within government departments and secure facilities around the world, people are making decisions that protect the UK's interests. They're sharing sensitive intelligence, coordinating responses to emerging threats, and collaborating on work that is imperative to UK interests.

They can do this because of Rosa.

Our work is the foundation for what comes next.The government has committed to a programme that will upgrade Rosa to a modern cloud-first platform. But transformation doesn't happen in a vacuum - it happens because the current service is trusted, reliable, and run by people who understand what government actually needs.

We need your help to deliver Rosa brilliantly today. This is how we earn the right to deliver the next generation capability for working at SECRET. Every improvement we make, every incident we resolve, every user we support builds the credibility and capability that makes transformation possible.

Job description

The successful candidate will need to combine strong technical skills with a consultative approach and lead a team of engineers ensuring services are integrated, delivered, and operated to a high standard.

The role will involve working with enterprise Linux systems and developing an understanding of government security guidance to deliver secure Linux infrastructure services.

For this role as well as maintaining the operational SLAs you will be expected to translate and deliver architectural designs into operational infrastructure, manage database systems and Linux hosted applications. This role requires a strong user focus and an eye for detail understanding the technology that is required to facilitate the network infrastructure and be able to work with minimal supervision or as part of a larger team.

In this role you will be responsible for:

Responsible for maintaining operational SLAs for Linux infrastructure incidents across the service, involving both physical and virtual servers, DNS, NTP, RHEL Directory Services, Proxy, database, Satellite and CEPH Infrastructure.

Responsible for monitoring, alerting and maintenance of the RosaLinux Infrastructure across all environments.

Leading the Linux team in support of BAU and Project implementation activities. Ensuring the relevant artefacts are in place for the team to be able to support Project and BAU activities.

Implement strategic and technical roadmaps for the aligned Linux Infrastructure and hosted applications. Ensuring infrastructure is kept up to date.

Ensure that all new components and installations meet or exceed the RSO internal and regulatory requirements.

Work within the wider organisations DevOps strategy to provide automated solutions where possible.

Own responsibility for changes across the environment within your technical discipline and ensure they are implementedaccording to agreed business processes.

Monitor trends to be able to proactively respond to issues to support the business needs.

Develop the creation of documentation, processes, and policies to ensure necessary governance and reporting is in place.

Responsible for all Incident, Problem and Risk Management within your technical discipline.

Assisting more junior team members with learning and development as required.

Liaise with vendors and product owners on product support and product roadmaps.

Collaborate with the other Lead Engineers across the Engineering function and support on initiatives as needed.

Person specification

We are looking for someone with:

Essential

Experience in a similar Lead Engineer or Tech team lead role in
Linux Engineering in a complex IT Infrastructure.
Leading a team, managing incident, problem, change and allocating work.
Acting as the senior technical Linux resource across the engineering function.
Experience with virtualized networking principles and platforms (VMware/Hyper-V)
Advanced experience with Bash and Python.
Good understanding across IT On-Prem and Cloud based
Manage Linux certificates across the environment.
Good experience of squid.
Responsible for driving all system upgrades across Linux
Experience with open-source Ansible automation tooling.
Good understanding of troubleshooting Linux issues to 4th line.
Demonstratable experience of Agile / DevOps working practices.
Experience of systems monitoring infrastructure.
Working knowledge of Confluence, Jira and JSM.
Sound understanding of database technologies, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL.tooling infrastructure.

Desirable

You will have relevant Computer Science, Information
Technology, Information Security or Systems Engineering qualification, or equivalent related qualifications or experience.
Experience working in a Cloud Infrastructure Environment; AWS, Azure, GCP.
Experience with managing CEPH Storage or Linux storage environments.
Experience of Confluence, Jira and JSM administration and upgrades.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Seeing the Big Picture
Leadership
Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

IT Infrastructure
Troubleshooting and Problem resolution
Technical Understanding

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,500, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office contributes £16,657 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

We understand that people are at the heart of our success. We promote and encourage all our staff to follow continued professional development, offering our staff access to a range of learning and development opportunities
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
Work that directly enables UK national security
The satisfaction of keeping critical infrastructure running for users who depend on it
The pride of supporting the most sensitive work government doesand knowing it depends on you
25 days annual leave (rising to 30), Civil Service pension, genuine flexibility
A pathway to shaping the future for working at SECRET for HMG

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Step 1.

Submit a CV outlining your employment history detailing your responsibilities, skills, accomplishments, plus your qualifications and relevant training. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years.

Step 2.

A Personal Statement of 750 words explaining how you consider your skills, qualities and experience to evidence your suitability for the role, focusing on the essential skills in the job profile.

These responses along with behaviours and technical skills will be explored further during the interview process for shortlisted candidates.

Step 3.

Additional Eligibility Questions. Answers to these questions will determine if you are eligible to apply.

Applications will be sifted anonymously so please remove any biographical data that would identify you.

As part of the online application process, you will be asked several diversity-related questions. If you do not wish to provide a declaration on any of the characteristics, you will have the option to select prefer not to say. The information you provide when submitting your application will help us monitor the Civil Service commitment to diversity and inclusion. You can refer to the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy for more information.

You will receive an acknowledgment of your application through the online process.

Step 4.

For the interview, an assessment tool will be used in addition to the behaviours and technical skills listed. You will be given details of this prior to interview to prepare.

The technical skills will align to the following framework: Infrastructure engineer - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting .

See our vetting charter .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code 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 .

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.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

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 Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : RSO Business Support
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

If you wish to make a complaint you should email [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the FCDO you can contact the Civil Service Commission.

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