Job summary
Have you completed the 2nd year of a relevant IT-related degree programme by the start date September 2025 and are you looking for a placement year in industry? If so, we would love to hear from you.
HM Land Registry (HMLR) are looking for two enthusiastic undergraduates to join a forward thinking organisation that recognises talent and encourages personal development.
It's an exciting time to join us as we continue on a major digital transformation programme. Our existing software systems form part of the critical national infrastructure, safeguarding land and property ownership valued at £7 trillion, enabling over £1 trillion worth of personal and commercial lending to be secured against property across England and Wales.
Job description
You will be joining HM Land Registry in September 2025, for a 12 month placement within our Transformation and Technology directorate in the vibrant, waterfront city of Plymouth. There are two posts available for a Junior DevOps Engineer and Infrastructure Engineer.
Main duties:
- Provide technical support for maintenance of IT Infrastructure and platforms, as part of a wider infrastructure engineering community.
- Assist in the planning and management of technical changes related to your IT Operations specialism.
- Pro-actively support live services. Taking the responsibility for the resolution of live incidents or escalation, as appropriate. Support continuous enhancements to live services and systems to prevent service outage.
- Take responsibility for assimilating and developing own knowledge base, keeping up to date with emerging technologies and sharing this across the wider infrastructure community.
- Produce and maintain technical team documentation.
- Share knowledge and experience with others, in line with the continuous improvement agenda and to help build capability within the IT Operations Practice
What will you get from us?
A year tailored to meet your development needs and experience in a variety of different areas. We will work with you to ensure that you get the most out of your time working with us. We will support your development aspirations and offer flexibility in your working week, to enable you to achieve a positive work life balance.
HMLR believe that a blended approach to where you work may give you an improved experience and has clear business benefits. We expect everyone to typically spend at least 60% of their working time in the office.
Please note in the training period, for the first 2 to 4 weeks, it will be expected that you spend 100% of your time in the office.
Person specification
You must have completed the 2nd year of a relevant (IT-related) degree programme by the start date September 2025 and are looking for a placement year in industry.
You have the following Essential Experience:
- Effective communication skills, including ability to interact and build working relation with engineers and other stakeholders.
- Technical information gathering, analysis and problem solving.
Please refer to the Essential Technical Skills required for the role you are applying for.
Please note that these posts are not available for those that have completed a Masters degree.
Qualifications
You must have completed the 2nd year of a relevant (IT-related) degree programme by the start date September 2025 and are looking for a placement year in industry.
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Please see 'Essential Technical Skills' under each job description
Benefits
Selection process details
This vacancy is using
Success Profiles and will assess your Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.
Please click APPLY NOW and cut and paste an anonymous CV into the online application form and include your qualifications and career history.
You will be asked to complete a personal statement (in no more than 1000 words). This will be used to provide details of how you meet the 'Essential Technical Skills' listed under each job description:
Infrastructure Engineer:
- An understanding of security operations and systems and their use in an operational security environment.
- Experience in cloud security methodologies and practices
- Experience in the use of an enterprise server operating system.
- Experience in designing or configuring an IT system or service.
Junior DevOps Engineer:
- Experience of programming skills (e.g. Python, PHP, Ruby, Java)
- Basic knowledge of using Linux operating systems
- Awareness and interest in working in a DevOps environment.
- Awareness of Cloud Hosting provider and understanding the benefits they provide
When prompted, please tell us which role you are applying for on the application form.
Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by 23:55 on 16 February 2025.
The sift will take place week commencing 17 February 2025 and if successful at shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a blended interview, in our Plymouth office, week commencing 3 March 2025.
The blended interview will assess your essential experience and strengths associated with the role. We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to the strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested. The best way to prepare for strengths questions is to reflect on what you identify as your own personal strengths, and your preferred ways of working.
Candidates may refer to notes within their interview but they should be used as a prompt only.
HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.
If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.
This post will require a Security Check and will therefore be subject to further background checks, including meeting the UK minimum residency requirement of 5 years. Further details of the process and checks can be found here:
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