Junior Network Engineer

Do you have experience of working on network-related changes and incidents? Are you a passionate and reliable team player? The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s (DVLA) and Inspire People are partnering to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Networks and Firewalls Infrastructure Engineer Cloud Engineer to join a team at the forefront of digital services to support the platform for DVLA’s cloud-first applications. £37,733 plus excellent Civil Service benefits and 28.8% employer pension contribution. Flexible, hybrid working from Swansea, a great place to work, live and play, with a healthy work-life balance on how and where you work.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) support numerous 24/7 services consumed by their onsite users, as well as customers and businesses across the whole of the UK and even further afield in some cases. This is a challenging role providing technical advice as well as Network solution delivery. You could be reviewing a High-Level Design in the morning, implementing configuration changes in the afternoon, and dealing with a high severity incident at 3am the following morning.

2025 will be a busy year as DVLA embark on large scale tech refresh of the network with latest technology such as zero trust and will have the latest technology from a number of leading Networking and security vendor platforms.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of a technical specialism
• Analyse and resolve service delivery issues
• Work on your own initiative
• Follow and/or contribute to the development of documented processes
• Monitor technology performance and identify opportunities to improve it – continual improvement ethos
• Facilitate small and large changes – working alongside DVLA’s other Infrastructure Engineers
• Develop and maintain good relationships with stakeholders across the business
• Work as part of a team to provide knowledge, help and advice
• Develop own skills working with other senior network engineers
• Enterprise switching and routing
• Work with BGP/OSPF/EVPN-VXLAN
• Work with wireless on-premises technologies and load balancing technologies
• Work with Enterprise Firewalls
• Work with WAF & DDoS solution
• Work with Enterprise network monitoring solutions
• Develop an understanding of DVLA’s services.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:

• Delivering and supporting network (Data and Voice) technologies, using vendors such as:
• Juniper and/or Cisco enterprise class routing & switching
• F5 or similar load balancing/WAF/DDOS solutions
• Cisco or other similar Wi-Fi solutions
• Working in teams to deliver continual improvements
• Delivering and supporting Firewall technologies using vendors such as:
• Cisco, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Juniper, or similar Firewalls solutions: including features such as IDS/IPS, configuring IPSEC VPN’s or similar
• Wide Area Network Technologies and vendor solutions
• Experience in connectivity to and within Cloud technology solutions/providers
• Experience with managing enterprise class monitoring solutions such as – Solarwinds, Netbrain, Netbox, Checkpoint IDS/IPS, JunosSpace, Cisco ISE, Tufin and LogRhythm

Essential skills:

• Demonstrate security considerations as part of work previously undertaken.
• Troubleshooting service incidents with pressure to restore service as soon as possible.
• Experience of various vendor networking technologies.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,733 (which includes a non-pensionable Recruitment and Retention Allowance of £3,500), Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency contributes £9,917 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

• DVLA pride themselves on how they approach your development. From training courses to specialist skills workshops and opportunities to grow your expertise.
• Best in class learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues
• Generous employer contribution of 28.97%, depending on chosen pension scheme
• Digital communities with clear career frameworks
• On-site gym plus personal training available (membership applies)
• On-site nursery, restaurants and coffee bar
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), increasing by 1 each year (up to 30) & 1 extra day for the King’s birthday
• Free parking
• A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a minimum of 60% of their time in the office over a month, with flexibility dependent on balancing business and individual needs

Further Information:

• This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 5 out of the past 5 years.
• DVLA does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.

If you have passion for Infrastructure and cutting edge technologies and are looking to enhance your career working on critical, large-scale platforms that affect the lives of 9 out of 10 households in the UK, then apply today or contact Alison Whitehead at Inspire People for further information, in complete confidence.