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Royal Navy - IT Systems Administrator (DevOps)

Job details
Posting date: 09 July 2025
Salary: £29,580 per year, pro rata
Additional salary information: A pension contribution of 28.97% based on the listed salary
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 08 August 2025
Location: Portsmouth, PO1 3GX
Remote working: Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week
Company: Ministry of Defence
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 414542

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Summary

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.

Please note, candidates will be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website where you will need to submit your application form. Please note the closing date above is incorrect and cannot be amended so please check the closing date on Civil Service Jobs and allow enough time to submit your application form.

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