Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Platform

Posting date:	15 August 2025
Salary:	£42,848 per year
Additional salary information:	Plus an additional allowance up to £14,552 (Government Digital and Data Profession Allowance)
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	24 August 2025
Location:	Bristol
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	420715/3

Summary

Are you a confident communicator and team player?

Do you have a real interest in modern Platforms and experience managing, developing and monitoring a modern cloud Infrastructure, particularly within Microsoft Azure?

Have you a drive for continuous improvement and a passion for delivering quality and results and eager to embrace new technologies to deliver the right solution?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

DVSA plays a crucial role in maintaining safety standards on the roads, conducting tests, and overseeing vehicle-related matters in the UK.

The Cloud Infrastructure Platform team designs, builds, and supports the infrastructure that provides the services used by colleagues across the country, with a strong focus on user experience, appropriate security, continuous improvement, and sustainability. To achieve this, we maintain and develop modern, cloud hosted IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions such as Microsoft 365, Dynamics and other technologies which help with the continual modernisation of our estate.

If you work in the Platform space, and value an exciting, friendly, and healthy working environment; would like an opportunity to deliver a modern, high-quality digital experience; and want to make a real impact on road safety and sustainability, we’d love to hear from you.

There’s never been a better time to join the DVSA. Our Digital-first vision is supported by a clear strategy which allows our staff to develop and grow.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Exceptional pension with an employer contribution of an average of 27%.
• Generous Annual Leave - 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 each year of service, up to 30.
• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at DVSA: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - Department for Transport Careers

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

Drive improvements to deliver new and updated core infrastructure services, according to business and user needs, based on clear evidence, to ensure maximum value is achieved from services. Drive automation throughout the core infrastructure estate, adopting modern approaches, such as, Infrastructure as Code, where relevant. Maintenance of core infrastructure services through identifying problems through analysis and proactively supporting resolution including documenting causes and remedies. Identifying and implementing functional, performance and quality improvements to the core infrastructure estate.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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