Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Database Administrator

Locations: Newport and Titchfield

Salary: £44,050 to £47,121

Grade : Senior Executive Officer

Approach: External

Closes : 11:55 pm on Tuesday 11th August 2026

Reference: 471588

We are looking for an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Database Administrator to join our Database team working within our Corporate IT & Services Division, with strong background and skills in SQL to undertake support, change management and project activities for Business-critical SQL based services. To ensure the production environments are supported and managed proactively, and that maintenance work is planned and scheduled around Business activity.

Actively identifying areas for improvement for services supported. Proactive in documenting and sharing knowledge, enhancing the capability within the team and working collaboratively.

Job description

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer you will build, manage, and support the infrastructure services that underpin all internal user services and services for an organisation.

Defining, building, bringing into service, operating, supporting, performance monitoring, continually improving and decommissioning Infrastructure services (SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS), products and platforms to serve a variety of user needs.

For the services, products and platforms supported:

• Managing incidents, requests, changes and problems.
• Managing the configuration, availability, security, capacity, performance, and cost.
• Engage in continuous improvement activities.
• Managing all aspects of the lifecycle of assets from acquisition through to disposal to include CMDB updates.

In return we offer:

✔Hybrid working

✔A market leading pension scheme - our employer contribution rate is around 28%

✔ A choice of working patterns: full-time, part-time, job-share.

✔Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of 26 weeks full pay (subject to qualifying criteria)

✔Employee Assistance Programmes

✔Diversity Network Groups

✔Mental Health Allies

✔Civil Service Sports and Social club

✔Generous holiday allowance – 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years service in addition to 9 public holidays