AWS Infrastructure Analyst Graduate

Overview

Prospective officers and staff must be held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability than members of the public, and that therefore their right to privacy can be fettered in certain circumstances. This is to ensure that members of the police are fully aware and accountable for the unique powers entrusted to them and the standards of professional behaviour they swear to uphold.

This role is part of the IT&D 2-Year Graduate Programme. We are encouraging applications from graduates whereby you may not demonstrate all of the necessary skills or experience required for the role. All we request is that you hold a relevant degree with foundational technology skills and have ambition to learn and grow as a technologist within IT&D at West Midlands Police.

The graduate programme provides review points, access to industry skilled professionals, leading enterprise technology exposure alongside hands-on training to help you be the best technologist possible

*** Please be aware that in order to be eligible to apply for this role, you need to be residing in United Kingdom for 5 years consecutively***

he IT & Digital department is responsible for the force’s adoption and use of information and digital technology.

The department consists of three core functions as follows:

• Architecture Management (responsible for identifying and selecting the right technologies for the force)

• Delivery Management (responsible for delivering and implementing the right technologies for the force)

• Service Management (responsible for managing and maintaining all live, operational technology for the force)

West Midlands Police IT & Digital is a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation of individuals committed to delivering excellent information technology solutions to support West Midlands Police and the public we serve.

Cloud Services underpin many aspects of West Midlands Police today, we operate a technically hybrid estate, and our services running under Amazon Web Services are critical to enabling Police Officers and Police Staff to perform their roles and fulfil the Forces mission of ‘working in partnership, making communities safer’.

The IT & Digital Cloud Services Team (AWS) are a highly skilled and multi-disciplinary team who design, build and run technology solutions across a wide range of administrative and operational Police functions including data platform solutions that support Response, Custody and Intelligence, a nationally significant automated AI voice solution that handles all non-emergency calls to WMP, secure gateway services as well as many traditional line of business applications and hosting solutions.

We are looking for skilled and enthusiastic Infrastructure Developers with a passion for technology and an ability to learn what we do today as well play an important role in building well architected AWS solutions for the future. You can expect to be using tried and tested patterns to deliver incremental deliverables one day and exploring new technologies and approaches to move our people and our solutions forward on another day.

If you would like to work within a Dev Ops team of skilled technologists and can make a positive impact on our current and future solutions this opportunity could be your next challenge.

You will develop and support mission critical policing systems and enjoy working with native cloud technologies. At West Midlands Police IT & Digital there is a very wide scope to build your career across many and varied projects and technology disciplines.

• Contribute to the production of infrastructure designs for IT solutions in line with force requirements and standards

• Work with Senior Developers in the Team as well as Architecture Management and Business Stakeholders to understand IT solution requirements and recommend appropriate infrastructure designs and configurations

• Assist with the build and deployment of AWS infrastructure for new IT solutions including the configuration of sub-production environments in line with architectural designs as well as force requirements and standards

• Write Infrastructure as Code packages and programs that provision and maintain…