Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Office for National Statistics; Newport; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leading pension (28%)

Flexible working patterns (full-time,

Maternity/adoption or shared parental

Employee Assistance Programmes

Diversity Network Groups

Mental Health Allies

Civil Service Sports and Social club

Generous holiday allowance (25 days, 9

Job summary

The Office for National Statistics is seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Database Administrator to join the Database team within the Corporate IT & Services Division. The role focuses on SQL-based services, ensuring production environments are supported, maintained, and scheduled around business activities.

Key responsibilities include proactive improvements, documenting knowledge, and building, managing, and supporting infrastructure services (SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS) for

Responsibilities

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

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