Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer

Metropolitan Police; Greater London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 28 days + bank holidays,

Season ticket loans

Met sports and social clubs

Flexible working conditions

Job summary

Metropolitan Police in London seeks a technology innovator to design, develop, and support bespoke IT systems that assist operational teams. You will work with a diverse engineering group, exploring horizon-scanning and advancing live facial recognition capabilities in a sensitive policing context.

The role offers exposure to cutting‑edge projects within the TRI team, with flexible working options and the chance to impact public safety in London.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a technology-related qualification (BTEC National Certificate/Diploma or degree).
• Previous experience in a technical IT role is desirable.
• Systems administration or engineering in Windows or Linux environments.
• WAN and LAN networking technologies including routing and firewall configuration.
• Physical and/or virtual infrastructure management.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to different technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support new IT systems.
• Work with customers and stakeholders to ascertain requirements and build solutions.
• Evaluate and adapt new products and technology for operational use.
• Support live systems and expand the Met Police's live facial recognition technology.

Skills

Technical IT experience

Problem solving

Willingness to learn

Education

BTEC National Certificate or Diploma or degree in a technology-related discipline

Tools

Proxmox

VMware

Hyper-V

Job description

Salary: The starting salary is £55,662, which includes allowances totalling £3,009.

The salary is broken down as £52,653 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £57,417. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: Southwark

Seeing is believing. And that’s the only way you’ll really get to know about our sophisticated technologies and how we’re using them to fight crime in the capital. We don’t say much, for obvious reasons, but suffice to say that we’re leading advancements in emerging technologies to deliver bespoke electronic and IT solutions in specialist areas to make London safer.

The Technology, Research and Innovation (TRI) team keeps the Met at the cutting-edge of tech. Our work is highly innovative, and no two projects are ever the same. The work we do is varied and so is the team we are looking for, so even if, after reading this advert, you aren’t sure that you fully match some of the skills described in the role, please do still apply as there may well be a fit for you and your skillset.

The Role

This is not a typical engineering role. Your ability to adapt to a changing technological landscape will be key, as you will be in a position to solve unique problems within policing to provide bespoke and specialised technology solutions for use directly by operational teams.

You will be part of the diversely skilled team that research and develop different practical technology solutions to directly help the Met with the range of unique policing challenges that they face in this rewarding and interesting role.

Working closely with an enthusiastic and dedicated team of cross-discipline engineers, you will have the opportunity to become involved with different technical work within the department, depending on your strengths and interests. Some of the work involves horizon-scanning for new technology and how it can be used within policing, other work involves supporting new and existing tools and technologies, including the Met Police’s growing use of live facial recognition technology.

What you will be doing

This is a technology innovation role that provides a range of opportunities to both technology specialists from different fields or generalists with a variety of technological knowledge and experience.

• Using your technical experience to design, develop, and support new IT systems, as well as using your expertise to provide hands‑on assistance to the team to enable them to deliver professionally engineered solutions.
• Working with customers and stakeholders to ascertain their requirements, as well as alongside other members of the team to solve problems and build solutions.
• Evaluate and adapt new products and technology for operational use.
• Supporting live systems and the expansion of the MPS’s live facial recognition technology

You will enjoy the kind of great benefits that you’d expect from one of London's largest employers.

These include:

• Annual leave entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Membership of Met sports and social clubs
• Flexible working conditions and many more.

Have other technology skills?

We want to hear from people from many different backgrounds, so even if you do not feel you have had enough experience in some of the things that you think we do, we value the range of backgrounds that those joining us have come from, making this a perfect environment to grow into. Some of the qualities and abilities that our team have cannot easily be put into a job advert, so go ahead and apply, let us know what interests you about this role. We look forward to hearing from you!

Vetting

This post requires access to the most sensitive intelligence material on a daily basis. Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) Security Check (enhanced) (SC(e)) level before taking up the post.

Essential For The Role

What you will bring along

• A minimum of BTEC National Certificate or Diploma, or a degree, in a technology-related discipline,
• Previous experience working in a technical IT role, which could include one of the following:
• Systems administration or engineering in either Windows or Linux environments
• WAN and LAN network technologies, including routing and firewall configuration
• Physical and/or virtual infrastructure management
• A keen interest and ability to problem solve
• A genuine willingness to learn, and adapt to, different technologies

We’d like you to have any of the following

We use a wide range of technologies across our projects, so if you have any of the skills or experiences below, then do highlight them to us, as we would be interested to know!

• A background in physical installations of network infrastructure
• Leading, mentoring or management experience
• Proxmox, VMware or Hyper-V
• IoT devices and platforms (e.g., Raspberry Pi, Arduino, STM32, Espressif ESP32)
• Hands‑on practical engineering in challenging environments
• Technology related to audio and visual systems
• Machine learning and AI (e.g., PyTorch, Tensorflow)
• Experience with pen-testing or other areas of cybersecurity