Job summary

Working within a small team of like-minded technical professionals, this role will play an essential part in operational support of our enterprise cloud technology services within the organisation to help meet its mission and goals. Being an Associate level role, you will be provided opportunities to learn and develop your skills, supported, mentored and coached by numerous colleagues.

Our current digital services are majority delivered from on-premise self-managed data centres and over the coming months and years we’ll be focusing on maturing our cloud hosting service within Microsoft Azure to support new digital services. This will cover both transformational programmes over the next 3 years and how we approach migrations for existing services and operating for the future.

Working across numerous agile multidisciplinary teams that will include Architecture, Software Engineering, Data, Security and Operations professions, you will play a part in the technical and service roadmaps that enable us to deliver excellent digital services that support Government housing policy and support of line of business systems. Specifically, you will administer the core Azure infrastructure products, work with product team staff including Software and DevOps engineers to enable them to deliver.

We’re in the early stages of our transformation, so now is a great time to join us for this opportunity to help form what will be both a challenging and fun time to be working on these changes.

Job description

Having technical knowledge is great, but also being able to utilise this knowledge to its fullest is essential. Being able to work closely with colleagues within the Digital Team and across the business is critical to our success. Understanding your audiences and framing problems and solutions for their understanding is a key skill. 

You will enjoy solving problems, working with stakeholders and have aspirations to grow and differentiate yourself as an expert cloud specialist.  

We’re looking for the early adopters, the trend setters and people with a passion for transitioning the world from on-premise data centres into the exciting world of cloud.

Cloud experience is not a mandatory requirement – the right candidate will learn quickly but a basic foundation in system administration within Microsoft related products is required.

You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders and your discussions will be shaped by good understanding of commercial and operational impact.

Things change fast! You will be tenacious enough to keep going. We see failing fast and setbacks as learning opportunities, so we expect you to be able to embrace this to overcome challenges.

An innovative and collaborative approach to solving technical problems, appropriately challenging the status quo and managing expectations for positive outcomes.

Lastly, as this is a technical role, a role advert wouldn’t be the same without a list of some of the technical technology and discipline areas we’re looking for below. Please be aware though, often job adverts are a wish list, but I understand you may have differing strengths in these areas, my aim is to ensure we build the best team based on collaborative strengths and ensure we work on developing you in the areas needed over time. 

Person specification

Essential Skills / Experience... 

Working knowledge of system administration 

Knowledge of Linux systems 

Understanding of automation

Networking & Security concepts 

Desirable Skills / Experience...

Microsoft 365 knowledge and experience

Data Centre Services

Software Engineering practices

DevOps knowledge

Previous knowledge of Azure services

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.