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Reference number

381283

Salary

£46,293 - £51,439 A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Digital

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours

Number of jobs available

1

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Location

Birmingham, Liverpool, Newport (Gwent), Norwich

About the job

Job summary

Are you passionate about building and maintaining robust IT environments that power digital transformation? Do you want to play a crucial role in aiding CCS's £30bn procurement operation? Join us in creating and handling the environments that enable our digital future.

Job Summary

As IT Environment Manager at CCS, you'll be accountable for delivering and maintaining our non-production environments that aid critical digital service development. You'll ensure our development, testing, and staging environments enable efficient delivery across both agile and waterfall methodologies, assisting our mission to transform public sector procurement.

Directorate overview

The Digital & Data Services (DDS) directorate is driving CCS's digital transformation, supporting over £30bn of public sector procurement annually. Our Infrastructure and Operations team ensures the reliability, security, and effectiveness of our technology platforms, enabling both our internal teams and external customers to work efficiently and securely.

Team Summary

You'll join our Infrastructure and Operations team, working alongside development teams, service management and transition managers, and technical specialists. Your role will be crucial in supporting our service transition program, managing environments for all CCS digital services, and ensuring smooth delivery of new capabilities across CCS.

Job description

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain development, test, and staging environments for CCS digital services

• Manage environment capacity, performance, and availability to meet service requirements

• Coordinate infrastructure and software upgrades across non-production environments

• Aid both agile and waterfall delivery methodologies through effective environment management

• Work with development teams to analyse and fulfil environment requirements

• Implement and maintain environment access controls and security measures

• Manage software deployment processes and tools across different environments

• Drive automation and continuous improvement in environment management

• Provide technical consultancy on environment configuration and deployment strategies

• Maintain comprehensive documentation of environment configurations and procedures

Person specification

Essential criteria (to be assessed at application stage):

• Strong experience in overseeing complex IT environments in a large-scale organisation

• Expertise in environment management tools and deployment automation

• Knowledge of infrastructure technologies including cloud platforms

• Experience with configuration management and version control systems

• Proven aptitude to aid both agile and waterfall delivery methods

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Experience with deployment tools (e.g., Jenkins, Artifactory)
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git, Subversion)
• Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Experience with infrastructure as code
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools
• Understanding of security and access control principles

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £46,293, Crown Commercial Service contributes £13,411 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect:

• Competitive salary

• Generous pension scheme

• A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus

• Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location

• Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)

• Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays

Explore fully how we will reward your work.

Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our candidate pack.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil ServiceD&I Strategy.

We want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk

Working flexibly, delivering outcomes

CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Selection Process

Candidates who are successful at sift will be contacted as soon as possible following the closing date and advised of the interview process in more detail. The sift will commence 14-01-25 and interviews will be either at one of our offices or via video with interview times and dates to be confirmed. (Subject to change)

To find out more about our recruitment process please click here

Please note: Applicants can make use of artificial intelligence but the information presented at application must be factual.

A reserve list may be held for up to 6 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Recruitment team Email : recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk

Recruitment team

Email : recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk

Further information

Complaints procedure

Our recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles details of which can be found at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk in the first instance.

If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk
https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/careers-with-ccs