Infrastructure Engineer

Circle Recruitment; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 101,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Circle Recruitment is supporting a Government client based in Cardiff with an Infrastructure Engineer role that can be worked mainly remotely, with quarterly attendance.

The initial contract runs until 02/04, paying between £550 and £600 per day Inside IR35, with an Umbrella solution. The role focuses on delivering secure, resilient infrastructure and providing guidance on security, IAM, and incident response.

Qualifications

• Deliver and maintain secure, resilient infrastructure and platform services.
• Champion security best practices to protect data and services.
• Drive automation to strengthen security, resilience and operational effectiveness.
• Work in a team to build, administer, support, and maintain secure, compliant solutions.
• Provide expert advice on secure environments, IAM, configuration management, vulnerability management, monitoring, and incident response.
• Ensure critical services remain secure, available and resilient against evolving threats.
• Proficient with Linux, Terraform, Docker, AWS, security principles, Bash, Python.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and maintain secure, resilient infrastructure and platform services.
• Champion security best practices across systems.
• Drive automation to strengthen security, resilience, and operations.
• Collaborate with infrastructure team to maintain compliant solutions.
• Advise on secure environments, IAM, hardening, vulnerability management, monitoring, and incident response.
• Protect services against evolving cyber threats.
• Work with cross-functional teams to implement robust infrastructure.

Skills

Security principles

Linux

Bash

Python

AWS

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Infrastructure Engineer

Contract till April

£550 - £600/Day Inside IR35

Mainly Remote/ Cardiff

Clearance: SC

We are seeking a Infrastructure Engineer our Government client based in Cardiff. This role can be worked mainly remotely but will be expected to come to business every quarter.

The Infrastructure Engineer role will be an initial contract until 02/04 paying between £550 - £600/Day Inside IR35.

This role is inside IR35 - Due to the service of the role it will now be based on an Umbrella solution.

Clearance: SC

Role Profile:

• You will be responsible for delivering and maintaining secure, resilient infrastructure and platform services
• You will champion security best practices, ensuring that systems are designed, configured, and operated to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organisational data and services
• Taking a user, service, and risk-focused approach, you will drive continuous improvement and automation to strengthen security, resilience, and operational effectiveness
• Working as part of a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers, you will build, administer, support, and maintain secure and compliant solutions in line with departmental policies, security standards, and industry best practice
• A significant proportion of the role will involve working with teams across the organisation to provide expert advice on secure environments, configuration management, identity and access management, infrastructure hardening, vulnerability management, monitoring, and incident response
• You will help ensure that critical services remain secure, available, and resilient against evolving cyber threats
• Linux/Terraform/Docker/AWS/Security Principles/Bash/Python

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As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Circle and our Client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Our client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, they guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where they have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, they will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a better way for us to communicate, please do let us know.