Junior Infrastructure Engineer

Manchester Digital; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in the UK is seeking a Junior Infrastructure Engineer to support modern, cloud-hosted infrastructure. The role focuses on incident management, service improvements, and automation while ensuring optimal performance and security of core services. Ideal candidates should be confident communicators passionate about IT and excited to develop their skills. Additional benefits include a generous pension contribution, flexible working options, and increasing annual leave based on service years.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution of 28.97%

25 days annual leave, increasing with service

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Confident communicator and team player.
• Real interest in modern IT platforms.
• Drive for continuous improvement.
• Passion for delivering quality and results.
• Embracing new technologies to deliver the right solution.
• Strong willingness to continually develop and learn.

Responsibilities

• Maintain core infrastructure services through incident and problem management.
• Drive improvements to deliver new and updated services.
• Drive automation throughout the core infrastructure estate.
• Monitor servers, networks, backups, and devices for performance.
• Deploy and configure servers and enterprise software.
• Implement and maintain security controls to ensure compliance.
• Maintain accurate documentation of infrastructure configurations.

Skills

Team player

Confidence in communication

Interest in modern IT platforms

Desire for continuous improvement

Passion for delivering quality

Embracing new technologies

Willingness to develop and learn

Job description

Junior Infrastructure Engineer - Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - EO

£30,485 additional £4,000 London weighting for Yeating location
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Full-time (Permanent) £30,485 additional £4,000 London weighting for Yeating location
Published on 2 February 2026 Deadline 15 February 2026

Location

Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham, Birmingham or Yeading.

About the job

Job summary

The 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 team 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 the Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team provides second/third line IT support, acting as a middle ground between the Service Desk and dedicated SME support teams. We help to maintain and develop modern, cloud hosted IaaS and leverage Cloud solutions such as M365, Azure, Meraki, Dynamics, Intune, Apple Automated Device Enrolment and other technologies to continually modernise our estate.

If you want to advance your IT career, are keen to take the opportunity to learn a broad range of skills across Platform, Digital Communications (Networks) and the Digital Workspace (End user devices), develop yourself 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.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensionshere
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Maintenance of core infrastructure services through incident and problem management.
• Drive improvements to deliver new and updated core infrastructure services, according to business and user needs to ensure maximum value is achieved from services.
• Drive automation throughout the core infrastructure estate.
• System monitoring and maintenance, monitoring servers, networks, backups and end user devices to ensure optimal performance and uptime
• Deploy and configure servers, end user device software, networking equipment, and enterprise software according to organizational standards.
• Implement and maintain security controls, monitor for threats, and ensure adherence to regulatory requirements.
• Maintain accurate documentation of infrastructure configurations, processes, and troubleshooting guides for team use.

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.

Additional Information

This role does not require SC clearance at this stage; however, it has the potential to require SC clearance in the future.

Person specification

To be successful in this role we are looking for someone who:

• Is a confident communicator and team player
• Real interest in modern IT platforms
• Has a drive for continuous improvement
• A passion for delivering quality and results
• Embracing new technologies to deliver the right solution
• Has a strong willingness to continually develop and learn