Junior Infrastructure Engineer

Job Introduction

The infrastructure team will be pivotal to our ambitions to move to the cloud, use new platforms to help our staff and residents more easily use services, and strengthen our approach to security and resilience. As junior infrastructure engineer, you’ll be hands-on building out this new world.

Day to day, you’ll be working with your wider team to build, test and monitor our on-prem and cloud infrastructure. You’ll be troubleshooting problems and figuring out how to make our platforms better and easier to use. You’ll be learning database administration and how to make sure we have the best possible user experience by keeping services highly available and resilient. You’ll be helping to configure, document and support our services. 

You’ll be passionate about technology and offering a great user experience. You will take pride in providing highly available stable services putting the customer first to allow them to perform their role uninterrupted. You’ll be happy to do some on-call work out of hours, for which you’ll be paid.

We’re looking for people who have already made a promising start to their career and are looking to consolidate and develop. In return, we offer a range of benefits which include:

• Annual Season Ticket Loan
• Childcare Voucher Scheme
• Learning and development opportunities to maximize your potential, including excellent apprenticeship opportunities at all levels 
• Reduced rate Gym Membership
• Eyecare Vouchers
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Generous Annual Leave entitlement and
• Excellent Pension Scheme
• Greenwich Card which entitles you to discounts at local businesses
• Employee Assistance Scheme including external counselling service
• A range of flexible working arrangements

Benefits of working for us

With offices based in the heart of Woolwich, Royal Greenwich is a great place to live and work.  

Benefiting from excellent transport links ranging from buses and tubes to trains and ferries, along with the developing Crossrail expansions, Royal Greenwich is one of the easiest boroughs to get to and navigate your way around. It takes 21 minutes to get into central London and 10 minutes from The O2.

Apply for this role

To apply for this role you must:

• upload a CV
• write and upload a supporting statement/ cover letter in the form of a cover letter

Things to consider when making your application. 

We want to give you the best opportunity to show off your career and skills in the best way possible. Please consider the following: 

• Your cover letter is a great way to help bring your CV to life. Think of it like a trail of breadcrumbs to lead us to want to interview you. It is unlikely that we’ll shortlist you for an interview without a cover letter. This is your first opportunity to show us why you’re right for this role, and your letter can show us how you fit the personal specification.  
• Your CV should be up to date, in a readable and accessible format and pertinent to the role.  
• Use your cover letter to talk about work that you are proud of, your values and your expectations.  

Hiring process  

Step 1 – Complete the application form and upload your CV and cover letter. 

Step 2 – If shortlisted you will be invited to undertake a technical assessment. 

Step 3 – If you pass the technical assessment stage you will be invited to attend a panel interview. This will usually be a 1-hour video call with up to 3 people like the hiring manager and other team members you would work with.
  
  At the end you’ll have the opportunity to ask the panel questions in return.  

 This role requires a Basic DBS. 

For an informal discussion please contact Sukhvinder Bansil at  Sukhvinder.Bansil@royalgreenwich.gov.uk 

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated. 

Early Advert Close: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

Salary: Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this 'Salary Calculator to help you calculate a pro rata salary.

Our Staff Values: Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.