Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Office for National Statistics; Fareham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading pension

Flexible working patterns

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Diversity networks

Mental health allies

Sports and social club

Generous holiday allowance

Job summary

The Office for National Statistics is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Database Administrator to join our Database team within the Corporate IT & Services Division. The role emphasizes SQL-based service support, change management and proactive production environment maintenance to align with business activity.

You will build, manage and support infrastructure services (SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS), monitor performance and continually improve service while documenting best practices and asset

Qualifications

• Experience as Senior Infrastructure Engineer / DBA.
• Strong background in SQL.
• Experience with incident, change and problem management.

Responsibilities

• Manage incidents, requests, changes and problems for SQL-based services.
• Oversee configuration, availability, security, capacity and cost of infrastructure.
• Engage in continuous improvement and document knowledge sharing.
• Manage lifecycle of assets from acquisition to disposal, including CMDB updates.

Skills

SQL

Database Administration

Infrastructure Engineering

Job description

Locations: Newport and Titchfield

Grade : Senior Executive Officer

Approach: External

Closes : 11:55 pm on Tuesday 11th August 2026

Reference: 471588

We are looking for an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Database Administrator to join our Database team working within our Corporate IT & Services Division, with strong background and skills in SQL to undertake support, change management and project activities for Business-critical SQL based services. To ensure the production environments are supported and managed proactively, and that maintenance work is planned and scheduled around Business activity.

Actively identifying areas for improvement for services supported. Proactive in documenting and sharing knowledge, enhancing the capability within the team and working collaboratively.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer you will build, manage, and support the infrastructure services that underpin all internal user services and services for an organisation.

Defining, building, bringing into service, operating, supporting, performance monitoring, continually improving and decommissioning Infrastructure services (SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS), products and platforms to serve a variety of user needs.

For the services, products and platforms supported:

• Managing incidents, requests, changes and problems.
• Managing the configuration, availability, security, capacity, performance, and cost.
• Engage in continuous improvement activities.
• Managing all aspects of the lifecycle of assets from acquisition through to disposal to include CMDB updates.

In return we offer:

• A market leading pension scheme - our employer contribution rate is around 28%
• A choice of working patterns: full-time, part-time, job-share.
• Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of 26 weeks full pay (subject to qualifying criteria)
• Employee Assistance Programmes
• Diversity Network Groups
• Mental Health Allies
• Civil Service Sports and Social club
• Generous holiday allowance – 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years service in addition to 9 public holidays