Junior Infrastructure Engineer

Company: Royal Borough of Greenwich
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Location: Greater London
Job Description:

The infrastructure team will be pivotal to our ambitions to move to the cloud, use new platforms to help our staff and residents more easily use services, and strengthen our approach to security and resilience. As junior infrastructure engineer, you’ll be hands‑on building out this new world.

Day to day, you’ll be working with your wider team to build, test and monitor our on‑prem and cloud infrastructure. You’ll be troubleshooting problems and figuring out how to make our platforms better and easier to use. You’ll be learning database administration and how to make sure we have the best possible user experience by keeping services highly available and resilient. You’ll be helping to configure, document and support our services.

You’ll be passionate about technology and offering a great user experience. You will take pride in providing highly available stable services putting the customer first to allow them to perform their role uninterrupted. You’ll be happy to do some on‑call work out of hours, for which you’ll be paid.

Benefits

  • Annual Season Ticket Loan
  • Childcare Voucher Scheme
  • Learning and development opportunities to maximize your potential, including excellent apprenticeship opportunities at all levels
  • Reduced rate Gym Membership
  • Eyecare Vouchers
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Long Service Awards
  • Generous Annual Leave entitlement and
  • Excellent Pension Scheme
  • Greenwich Card which entitles you to discounts at local businesses
  • Employee Assistance Scheme including external counselling service
  • A range of flexible working arrangements

Benefits Of Working For Us

With offices based in the heart of Woolwich, Royal Greenwich is a great place to live and work. Benefiting from excellent transport links ranging from buses and tubes to trains and ferries, along with the developing Crossrail expansions, Royal Greenwich is one of the easiest boroughs to get to and navigate your way around. It takes 21 minutes to get into central London and 10 minutes from The O2.

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To Apply For This Role You Must

  • upload a CV
  • write and upload a supporting statement/cover letter in the form of a cover letter

Skills

  • Your cover letter is a great way to help bring your CV to life. Think of it like a trail of breadcrumbs to lead us to want to interview you. It is unlikely that we’ll shortlist you for an interview without a cover letter. This is your first opportunity to show us why you’re right for this role, and your letter can show us how you fit the personal specification.
  • Your CV should be up to date, in a readable and accessible format and pertinent to the role.
  • Use your cover letter to talk about work that you are proud of, your values and your expectations.

Hiring process

  1. Complete the application form and upload your CV and cover letter.
  2. If shortlisted you will be invited to undertake a technical assessment.
  3. If you pass the technical assessment stage you will be invited to attend a panel interview. This will usually be a 1-hour video call with up to 3 people like the hiring manager and other team members you would work with. At the end you’ll have the opportunity to ask the panel questions in return.

This role requires a Basic DBS.

For an informal discussion please contact Sukhvinder Bansil at Sukhvinder.Bansil@royalgreenwich.gov.uk

Diversity Statement

Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Salary

Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this Salary Calculator to help you calculate a pro rata salary.

Our Staff Values

Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/registration.

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Posted: April 3rd, 2026