Job Description

Details

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Reference number

415877

Salary

62,837
GBP

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Estates

Working pattern

Full-time

Number of jobs available

1

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Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information

Location

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London

About the job

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Job summary

Flexible Working:

We recognise the value of flexibility in the workplace. Although this role requires you to be in the office five days a week, we strive to support a balanced work-life. Additionally, the role includes weekly national travel, offering you the opportunity to collaborate with various teams and stakeholders.

About Us

MI5 keeps the country safe from serious threats like terrorism and attempts by states to harm the UK, its people, and way of life. We carry out investigations by obtaining, analysing, and assessing intelligence, and then work with a range of partners including MI6 and GCHQ to disrupt these threats. Through our protective security arm, we provide advice and guidance to the government, businesses, and other organisations about how to keep themselves safe. A role in MI5 means you'll do unique and challenging work in a supportive and encouraging environment, making a real difference to UK national security.

Job description

The Role

As the manager for our Data Centre Technical Services Team, your role will be to ensure operational integrity across our multiple data centres. This includes managing a team, working closely with our facilities management suppliers, and overseeing the budgets for our portfolio of sites. Through your efforts, you'll ensure our data centres remain resilient, operationally active, and compliant.


Day-to-day, your role involves supporting your team to deliver a consistent experience for all building users, including both colleagues and visitors. As part of our technically experienced leadership team, you'll also play a key role in project work, from identifying and scoping, to pricing and then monitoring the delivery of improvement projects from start to finish.


In addition to these responsibilities, you'll liaise with stakeholders, apply your technical expertise, and train your team to ensure effective facility management across MI5. As you travel nationwide to our various sites, you'll oversee critical systems such as power, cooling, and fire safety, ensuring our offices remain safe and operational for everyone.

Person specification

About You

To apply, you'll need an NVQ Level 4/5 or Higher National Certificate (HNC) level 4/5 in either Building Services Engineering, Facilities Management, or Engineering Maintenance. Membership in the Institute of Engineers is also required.


Experience in managing complex data facilities is essential, along with the technical expertise to support your team and contribute to system improvement projects. Extensive knowledge of regulatory compliance for data centres and critical environments is necessary.


An experienced, proactive leader, you're someone your team can rely on for support and training. You navigate complex stakeholder relationships with ease, collaborating with colleagues across MI5 to achieve your goals.

Benefits

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Training and Development

When you join, you'll have a thorough induction with us, including an introductory course that will tell you all about MI5 and what we do. As you settle into your role, we will fund and support your efforts to enhance your knowledge and skills through both internal and external, courses, leading to recognised certifications.


We'll also support any relevant enhanced training you might need to supplement your existing knowledge and experience.

Rewards and Benefits

You'll receive a starting salary of 62,837 plus other benefits including:

25 days of annual leave, automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years of service, and an additional 10.5 days of public and privilege holidays. Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme. Dedicated development budget. Interest-free season ticket loan. Excellent pension scheme. Cycle to work scheme. Facilities such as a gym, restaurant and on-site coffee bars (at some locations). Paid parental and adoption leave.

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

Equal Opportunities

At MI5 diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking, and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are underrepresented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities, and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.


Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website:

https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers/working-at-mi5/diversity

We're Disability Confident

MI5 is proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP's Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, we aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants who best meet the essential minimum criteria for this position, will be offered an interview, if it is practical for us to do so. (This is known as Offer of an Interview.) To secure an interview for this role, the minimum criteria (in order of application process) are:

To achieve the minimum pass mark in the question about motivation for wanting to work for MI5. Demonstrable experience in managing complex data facilities technical expertise in data centre operations. Knowledge of regulatory compliance for data centres and critical environments.

There is a wide range of extra support available throughout the recruitment process to enable you to do your best. See our website https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers/applying-for-jobs/application-process for information on the reasonable adjustments we can offer.

What to Expect

Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a brief overview of each stage, in order:

Application sift, looking at your motivation for the role and the organisation. Assessment Centre, the interview process will consist of HR Competency Interview and Technical Assessment. If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment.

Please note, you must successfully pass each stage of the process to progress to the next. Your application may take around 6 to 9 months to process including vetting, so we advise you to continue any current employment until you have received your final job offer.

Before You Apply

To work at MI5, you need to be a British citizen or hold dual British nationality. Read about our

eligibility criteria

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This role requires the highest security clearance, known as Developed Vetting (DV). It's something everyone in the UK Intelligence Community undertakes. Find out more about the

vetting process

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Please note we have a strict drugs policy, so once you start your application, you can't take any recreational drugs, and you'll need to declare your previous drug usage at the relevant stage.


Before you apply, we advise you to consider setting up a separate email address for your contact with us, to ensure your personal and application correspondence remain separate. Try to avoid having identifying features in your email address, such as your first and/or surname and date of birth. This is good practice and will help you manage your application with us more securely.


The role is based in London, so you'll need to live within a commutable distance. Please consider any financial implications and practicalities before submitting an application. An interest-free loan via our benevolent fund is available to assist with relocating into privately rented accommodation to take up the offer of employment.

Please note, you should only launch your application from within the UK. If you are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an application. Applying from outside the UK will impact our ability to progress your application. You should not discuss your application, other than with your partner or a close family member.

Right to Withdraw Statement:

Please be aware that we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date for this role from the original closing date once a certain number of applications have been received. Please be mindful of this and submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.



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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting .



See our vetting charter .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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