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Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Inside IR35

Contract Term: 12 months

Contracting Authority: BEIS - Intellectual Property Office

Location: Remote - occasional travel to Newport.

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights including patents, designs, trademarks and copyright.

Our ambition is to be the best IP office, and we intend to achieve this by:

• Delivering excellent IP services
• Creating a world leading IP environment
• Making the IPO a brilliant place to work

We operate and maintain a clear and accessible intellectual property system in the UK, which encourages innovation and helps the economy and society to benefit from knowledge and ideas. We help people get the right type of protection for their creation or invention.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer your main responsibilities would be:

• Maintaining an Operations strategy which ensures that the architecture and systems enable efficient delivery of an IT service.
• Management, maintenance, and capacity planning on the IT infrastructure, ensuring the efficient and effective provision of IT Service, maximising system availability.
• Ensuring the security and availability of data held within the IT systems, ensuring that data access is granted only to the appropriate individuals or groups, and that data for all services is demonstrably recoverable.
• Ensuring that all service impacting events which occur on national IT systems are fully investigated, performing, and overseeing detailed analysis of events and incidents, identifying performance trends and their causes, and implementing mechanisms to improve service delivery to IT customers.
• Assisting with the development and implementation of Business Continuity Strategy and Policy, including disaster recovery plans.
• Undertake research and development in all IT Operational areas and identify opportunities where deployment of new technologies can assist with delivering the operational or strategic aims.

Essential:

• Demonstratable experience of operating in an Infrastructure Engineering role or similar position.
• Strong Azure knowledge and experience.
• VMware experience.

Desirable:

• Linux experience.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Daniel Mcbride

As a member of the disability confident scheme, IPO guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.