Royal Navy IT Systems Administrator (DevOps) - MoD - EO

Location

Portsmouth, PO1 3GX

About the job

Job summary

Do you have a background in IT Engineering and a passion for delivering and effective and agile IT Service? Could you bring your information system knowledge to our multi-discipline team to support the UK Armed Forces? If so, we really want to hear from you!

With a heritage dating back to the 1930’s and based in Portsmouth Dockyard, 1710 Naval Air Squadron is mixed Civil Service and Military team of technical specialists from multidisciplinary backgrounds, that uses scientific and engineering reasoning to overcome UK MOD aircraft operational issues to recover, sustain and enhance aviation and general military capability.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

This exciting and vital role sits within our recently created Digital and Data Department working across the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) providing critical IT services for all non-MODnet IT systems across 1710 NAS and key stakeholders.

As the IT Systems Administrator / Junior DevOps Engineer, you will assist the Head of Digital Services on IT service support, development, and ensure availability for in-house networks, databases and service capabilities providing airworthiness support. You will be responsible for ensuring service level agreements and operational level agreements across the relevant business functions are met.

As an IT Systems Administrator / Junior DevOps engineer within our team, your role will include:

Being part of a small, combined IT service, operations and development support team with a customer-centric support approach across 1710 NAS departments and key stakeholders, with a focus on service availability and performance.

Supporting and developing the physical and logical IT infrastructure and applications within 1710 NAS Portsmouth and deployed across the Military Air Environment (MAE).
Some maintenance of enterprise software and hardware, including but not limited to; Database management, backup and recovery, systems administration and automation.
Provision of expert technical IT engineering support and ‘intelligent customer’ advice to the Data Exploitation team and delivery of support with respect to the development, delivery and hosting delivery of aircraft data exploitation methods.
Ensure that all technical change is communicated and managed, with appropriate governance.

Travel opportunities to additional sites, off-site trials, conferences, and visits to external partners could be a part of your role.

Person specification

Your previous experience will be invaluable and essential skills required are:

Able to maintain secure and consistent configuration management, demonstrating through the use of configuration management tools such as Ansible.
Must be able to understand, and be able to use, a variety of DevOps tools, spanning the DevOps lifecycle from infrastructure and building, to monitoring and operating a product or service.
Familiarity with coding and scripting: Be able to understand software development practices and design, prototype, code, test, correct and document programs or scripts.
Use information Security practices and available security controls to contribute to protecting solutions and services.
Management of services for hardware and software assets used to maintain and monitor continuing airworthiness.
Ability to investigate problems and issues with an analytical mindset, with a focus on developing long-term solutions as well as ‘quick-fixes’.

Highly desirable experience includes:

Knowledge of enterprise technology stacks from vendors such as:

Microsoft
VMware

Ability to provide technical IT engineering support to enterprise-class hardware and software.
Understanding of enterprise backup systems and methodologies.

Due to the large variety of military platforms the team supports, you will also have an enthusiastic, adaptable, and inquisitive approach towards new challenges in an ever-evolving landscape. This exciting job opportunity requires a high level of team working in a combined civilian and military environment applying scientific and engineering disciplines.

Your Qualifications 

To carry out the responsibilities outlined above, it is necessary for you to hold a Degree/HNC/D or equivalent working experience in Digital and Technology Solutions

Behaviours

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

Changing and Improving
Working Together
Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

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

Service support Level: working You can: help fix service faults following agreed procedures, carry out maintenance tasks on service support infrastructure
Programming and build (software engineering) Level: working You can: design, code, test, correct and document simple programs or scripts under the direction of others