Grade 7 Messaging Lead - East Kilbride, United Kingdom - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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East Kilbride, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £49,955 - £60,078- £49,955 - £60,078 +(£2,000 London Allowance/£1,750 Outer London Allowance)
Job grade:

Grade 7
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
FCDO
DG Finance & Corporate
Type of role:
Information Technology
Working pattern:
Fulltime, Homeworking, Compressed Hours
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Location

East Kilbride, LondonAbout the job

Job summary:

Would you be interested in making a meaningful contribution to the UK's national security, whilst enjoying an enviable work-life balance, 25 days holiday (rising to 30), all with the added benefits of a civil service pension scheme?

You're home.

Whilst we sit in an established government department, the team structure and ethos is dynamic and agile, more akin to a modern tech start-up.

We are pioneering new ways of delivering classified technology services across government, and we're having fun doing it.

Job description:

Rosa is a central government IT system that enables collaborative working at SECRET in a secure environment with the latest technologies.

Rosa provides fixed and mobile SECRET collaboration tools and communications in 166 countries across the globe, allowing users to create and share data securely.

Joining our Technology, Engineering and Operations team as a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, your primary role will be lead engineer for messaging.

Responsibilities

Engineer solutions centered in the Messaging and mail gateway space.
Line manage a small team of similarly skilled Infrastructure engineers.
Work with all disciplines and operational product owners to maintain and integrate Messaging and related technologies with RSO platforms to protect and manage mission critical systems.
Contribute to delivery and operations across the wider technical engineering stack.
Contribute to strategic and tactical engineering road maps in the Messaging and high assurance gateway space, making sure that road maps are future proofed to meet organizational and user needs. Ensure that all security products meet or exceed the RSO internal and regulatory requirements.
Produce documentation of processes and procedures for managing the technology stack
Follow the Technology Life Cycle in the development of all products, support the delivery and conduct detailed due diligence on the existing platform to understand where improvements can be made.

Person specification:

Essential Skills

Knowledge of Microsoft Exchange with previous experience of MS Exchange Upgrades
Installing and managing server (full and core) in single and clustered configurations operating systems including Microsoft Windows Server
Demonstrable knowledge of Active Directory, including management and maintenance of users and security groups
Experience of VMware
Experience of using PowerShell

Desirable Skills

Previous experience of team leadership.
Knowledge of cross domain technologies such as mail gateways.
Knowledge of Identity management ADFS
Working knowledge of Certificate Lifecycle Management

Behaviours:

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

Changing and Improving
Delivering at Pace
Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills:

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

Technical Skills

Benefits:

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.
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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Selection process details:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), 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.

Step 3.
Additional
Eligibility Questions. Answers to these questions will determine if you are eligible to apply. Please refer to the T&C document attached to the advert for more information.

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

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

Security:

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements: