Senior Linux & Storage Infrastructure Engineer

Details
Reference number
374206
Salary
£38,844 - £49,844
The basic salary range is £39,591 - £44,023 with an additional, non-pensionable digital allowance of up to £11,000. The final salary and allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Job grade
Higher Executive Officer
DDaT Senior
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
CH - Digital Services
Type of role
Digital
Information Technology
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time
Number of jobs available
1
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Location
Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZ
About the job
Job summary

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Linux and Storage Infrastructure Engineer to join IT services. You will be responsible for supporting the organisation's internal and external facing systems with respect to the Linux and Storage estate. You will help support and develop the existing Companies House Linux and Storage infrastructure (on-site & cloud) ensuring availability, performance, and resilience to meet Companies House corporate targets. You will also be involved in the ongoing migration and subsequent support of Companies House services to Cloud.

Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.

Find out more about what a great place Companies House is to work

Job description

This is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer Role where the successful candidate will possess the necessary skills to support and develop the Companies House Linux and Storage infrastructure.

The role includes the following disciplines:

Respond to and resolve incidents to meet agreed targets.
Proactively monitor system performance, taking preventative or corrective action where required, ensuring Change Management procedures are always adhered to.
Provide root cause analysis to problems and propose/implement appropriate corrective actions.
Take a proactive role in the project to migrate on-premise services to cloud.
Participate in configuration design and upgrade pathways for the existing infrastructure.
Configure and install solutions to meet the business needs, ensuring agreed standards and the Companies House Change Management process is adhered to.
Decommission redundant systems/hardware.
Document existing and future systems/processes.
Ensure the CMDB is kept up to date.
Be part of a team that provides 8:30am to 5pm cover.
You will also be expected to participate in the on-call rota for your section in line with the current on call agreement to ensure our services remain operational at all times. This on-call element covers 24/7/365 and is an essential requirement of the role.
Person specification

We're looking for the following experience, which will be assessed at sift and interview.

Ability to work as a member of a technical team who actively shares knowledge to help ensure all team members develop their skills and are kept up to date with any technical changes that could impact the team.
Ability to work remotely from other team members and still be able to communicate effectively using the appropriate communication channel (telephone, Slack, email etc.) to resolve technical issues in a timely manner.
Strong problem-solving skills, the ability to work well under pressure and prioritise work effectively.
Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff at all levels of the organisation.
Ability to engage effectively with 3rd party support/vendors to resolve technical issues where necessary.
Approaches work according to the Companies House Values by being Adaptable, Bold, and Curious.
Behaviours

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

Changing and Improving
Making Effective Decisions
Working Together
Delivering at Pace
Technical skills

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

Working knowledge of storage systems, primarily NetApp OnTap/CVO
Working knowledge of Linux administration
Working knowledge of AWS cloud computing technologies
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £38,844, Companies House contributes £11,253 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we're committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.

Head to Our benefits - Working for us - Recruitment (companieshouse.gov.uk) to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House.

We celebrate diversity

As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring we're representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfil our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We also welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

We are proud to be a disability confident leader. Our recruitment process is fully inclusive and we can make adjustments as needed through our process. These could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments and receiving interview questions in advance, to name a few. We will be happy to discuss any person-centred adjustments, please contact us by emailing

Where will you be working?

You will be aligned to our Cardiff Office, where we are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work. Our approach to hybrid working provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. The degree of choice you have will depend on business need, your role and your day-to-day work activities and will be discussed at offer stage.

Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

In your application form we'd like you to:

Tell us about your employment history, including key responsibilities and achievements.
We'd like you to write a personal statement of 1250 words where you tell us about why you'd be great for this role, referencing the Technical skills listed above.

What will the process look like?

We'll carry out a sift of applications and successful candidates at sift will be invited to a virtual interview (via Microsoft Teams).
At sift candidates will be assessed against experience and Technical skills listed in the advert and are asked to supply work history and personal statement, referencing any transferable skills using the job description for reference. The personal statement will be scored against the Technical skills listed above.
At interview candidates will be assessed against the Behaviours and Technical Skills listed in the advert and we will use Success Profiles: Behaviours and Technical skills.

Companies House uses a blended interview technique, allowing us to find out more about you. We use the Success Profile framework and at interview we will use Success Profiles assessing the Behaviours and Technical skills listed in the advert.

We're committed to being diverse and inclusive, so please make your application anonymous by removing all identifying personal information (such as names and dates) from your employment history and personal statement.

We understand that you might use AI and other resources for your application; however, please ensure all information you provide is factually accurate, truthful, and original and doesn't include ideas or work that isn't your own. This is so that your application is authentically and credibly your own.

Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of recruitment based on fair and open competition with decisions made on the basis of merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners' Recruitment Principles.

Successful candidates must pass a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check before they can be appointed.

BPSS is an entry level security check. It uses the Police National Computer (PNC) to make sure a candidate has no convictions. The check returns evidence of any current criminal record and un-spent convictions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements for Security Check (SC) before they can be appointed.
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