Office for National Statistics
Infrastructure Engineer
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The location for this role is Titchfield (Fareham).
This role is aligned to ONS hybrid working principles, which are based on attending the office with purpose. The postholder will be expected to contribute to the organisation’s overall 40% office attendance, in line with business and role requirements.
The induction process for the role will be conducted in person.
Job Summary
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.
Job Description
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
Person specification
Essential Criteria:
- Information Security (Working) - Use information security practices and available security controls to contribute to protecting solutions and services.
- Ownership and Initiative (Working) - Own a problem until a new owner has been found or the problem has been mitigated or resolved.
- Troubleshooting and problem resolution (Working) - Troubleshoot and identify problems across different technology capabilities
- Technical Understanding (Working) - Understand the core technical concepts related to the role and apply them with guidance.
- Service focus (Working) - Take inputs from various sources and use these to guide the design, development, delivery and operation of a service. You always look to continually improve and get the best out of services you support.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
- Working Together
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Technical Understanding (Working)
- Troubleshooting & Problem Resolution (Working)
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Alongside your salary of £34,587, Office for National Statistics contributes £10,019 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
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 valued colleagues across the organisation.
Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that our careers site 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 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.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details
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.
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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.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security 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.
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window). See our vetting charter
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