Infrastructure Engineer

We are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to join our Developer Tooling team within our Corporate IT & Services Division.

This role is ideal for someone with an understanding of tools such as SCCM and InTune, GitHub, GitLab, or Artifactory, who is keen to develop their skills while supporting complex software packaging and configuration services. You will work as part of a collaborative team, helping to maintain reliable, secure, and efficient environments for our users.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social, and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution, and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime, and migration.

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will support the day-to-day running of our developer tooling platforms and assist with software packaging, configuration, and deployment activities. You will gain hands-on experience across a range of technologies while contributing to support, maintenance, and improvement of services.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in supporting and maintaining platforms such as SCCM, GitHub, GitLab, and Artifactory
• Help package, configure, and deploy software to enterprise environments using tools such as SCCM and Intune
• Monitor systems and proactively resolve issues
• Support incident, request, and change management processes
• Assist in maintaining system documentation and procedures
• Follow established processes for implementing changes and updates
• Work with the team to ensure services are secure, available and performing effectively
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying enhancements, efficiencies and opportunities for automation

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)

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

Security Clearance

For ONS the requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to applying and the department will consider eligibility by exception on a case-by-case basis. You will be asked to provide information regarding your UK residency during your application, and failure to provide this will result in your application being rejected.

At the point of SC application, you will need to provide or give access to the following evidence:

• Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)
• UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
• Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
• Security Services records

Please note: We will reach out to you once the advert has closed to confirm eligibility for this role, this will be via an e-mail. Please check you e-mails.

Visa Sponsorship

ONS are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. Applicants are expected to hold a valid right to work in the UK when employment commences. If you are applying on a time-limited visa, this will need to be valid for at least 18 months at point of application.

To work at the ONS, candidates must meet both UK right to work and security clearance requirements (where applicable).

If you are unsure whether you meet the appropriate right to work or security clearance eligibility criteria, please refer to the guidance on Gov.uk or contact the recruitment email provided in the advert before applying. Failure to meet these requirements will result in your application being rejected and employment offers being withdrawn.

Application Process

Number of Stages: 2

Stage 1: Application

Stage 2: Interview

Stage 1 – Application

The assessment process at the application stage will be based on your work history, CV, skills, experience, and your answers to our Technical Questions. It is important that your application is tailored to highlight the skills, knowledge, and experience relevant to the role.

The word limit for these Technical Questions is 250 each. As these questions are scored, it is advisable to give clear examples for each one, including the impact of your actions, ideally utilising the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result).

In instances where a high number of applications are received, the sift pass mark may be adjusted, and candidates will be invited to interview based on merit order, i.e., those with the highest scores.

Please note that Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage of the application process.

When a high volume of applications are received, the sift pass mark may be adjusted. Candidates will be invited to interview based on their merit order, with those achieving the highest scores being prioritised.

Stage 2 – Interview

If invited to interview, you will be assessed using techniques aligned with the Civil Service Success Profiles framework, covering all behaviours listed in the job advert and any required technical skills.

Interviews will be conducted in person at our Titchfield office, located at Segensworth Road, Titchfield, Fareham, Hampshire, PO15 5RR

A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.

Important Dates

• Eligibility checks from 25/09/2026 - 02/10/2026. Please be aware we will be sending all candidates an e-mail to complete a eligibility form.
• Sift will be conducted from 05/10/2026
• Interviews will be conducted from 19/10/2026

For the full terms and conditions of the post, please see attachment.

Please note that all campaigns may be subject to withdrawal at any stage if the internal resource position changes.

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