Overview

Lead Infrastructure Engineer role at UK Home Office. This role involves managing third party provision of infrastructure services and delivering architectural solutions for infrastructure services throughout the service lifecycle. You will oversee programmes and projects and work with Technical Architects to translate designs into operations, supporting technical architects in operationalising the designs.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading teams and departments in the implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services.
• Reviewing systems designs to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, integration of multiple systems and technology, and that Secure by Design principles have been followed.
• Managing planning of system and/or acceptance tests, coordinating both functional and non-functional specifications and providing authoritative advice and guidance on test planning.
• Troubleshooting and identifying problems across different technology capabilities including compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, cloud, COTS and open source.
• Establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle and ensuring practitioners adhere to them. Managing resources to ensure the systems integration function works effectively.
• Evaluating the success of a solution after integration, identifying best practices and lessons learned, and feeding this information into future plans.
• Managing, coaching and mentoring more junior infrastructure engineers.

Your skills for this role

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for Infrastructure Engineering, with the following skills or strong experience in:

• Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy and financial governance and security.
• Design, develop and implement efficient, highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure.
• Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging cloud-native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments.
• Support cloud adoption of applications as they are being transformed and/or modernised.
• Key engineering principles and standards, and the ability to inspire others to follow these.
• Ensuring all solutions are robust, resilient and appropriately implemented, secured, tested and documented.

Why Join Us?

• Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.
• Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).
• Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).
• Recognition and inclusion: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.

Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers

Additional Information

This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you typically need to have been resident in the UK for at least three years. We cannot offer sponsorship.

Application

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Location and seniority

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering, Information Technology, and General Business
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting, Software Development, and Design Services