Infrastructure Engineer – Cloudera

We operate a hybrid working model and fully support flexibility with colleagues already based across the UK working from home and linked to one of our core locations in Newport, Titchfield (Fareham), London, Manchester, Edinburgh or Darlington.

For this role you will be linked to one of the core locations, the frequency of attendance at our offices is agreed with you as relevant to your role.

Are you an Infrastructure Engineer with Cloudera or Denodo experience who is looking for a role where you can make a real impact, using your technical experience to enable us to deliver our Statistics for the Public Good strategy for the UK?

Do you want to work in an organisation that champions diversity and inclusivity, and has been voted by Glassdoor as top in the UK for Work-life balance for the last 2 years in a row?

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer with Cloudera or Denodo experience to join our active community of technical professionals, working within our DAP (Data Access Platform) team. 

We are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer with Cloudera or Denodo experience to join our Data Access Platform (DAP) team working within our Technology Operations Division to support and maintain the software package life cycles of several Platforms and Software packages. The DAP team are accountable for the support and running of Cloudera, Denodo and other Software packages and technologies in line with ONS Security principles.

Responsibilities 

 As a Infrastructure Engineer and as part of the Technology Operations Division, you will be responsible for: 

• Managing the full life-cycle of big data platforms including:
• Managing incidents, requests, changes and problems.
• Managing the configuration, availability, capacity, performance and cost and drive continuous improvement activities
• Active participation in wider communities of practice, identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences.
• Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques and collaborating to improve the capability of the team and maximising their use.
• Maintaining consistency between development and production environments.

Essential Skills Criteria:

As a Infrastructure Engineer working in the DAP team, we are looking for you to have the following experience and skills: 

• The ability to build, operate, support, performance monitor, continually improve, patch and decommission Platforms and services. 
• Knowledge of big data platforms such as Cloudera (CDH or CDP), Hortonworks or Denodo.
• Knowledge of database technologies and administration (ideally Postgres). 
• Ability to manage and maintain system access and security. 
• Familiar with some of the following technologies:

         – Coding/scripting in Python, Bash, Ansible or Terraform Linux

         – Server operating systems (Red Hat) 

         – Understanding of Cloud computing services (AWS/GCP) 

         – Storage technologies e.g. SAN and data volumes on VMware and hardware servers.

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

• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together

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

• Platform technologies
• Database administration

The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our 5400 valued colleagues across the business.

This role is part of the cross-government Digital, Data & Technology (DDaT) profession framework. As a role within DDaT at the ONS, we also offer benefits such as:

• Protected Learning Time to spend on your personal development and side-projects.
• A supportive and active Community of Practice which you will be expected to contribute to, helping ensure you and your colleagues get the training, development and opportunities you need to progress your careers.

Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that the benefits pack attached (bottom of page) will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues, and our fantastic working culture.

Inclusion & Accessibility

At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a member of the Business Disability Forum and a Disability Confident Leader we’re committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.

If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.

Job contact :

• Name : Carl Nichols
• Email : carl.nichols@ons.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : DDaT.Recruitment@ons.gov.uk