Infrastructure Engineering Lead — Automation

Rubicon Consulting; England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Rubicon Consulting is seeking an Infrastructure Engineering Specialist for a 12‑month contract in Suffolk. You will join a specialist team delivering mission-critical infrastructure projects for government clients, focusing on secure, scalable systems and end-to-end service delivery.

You will lead design, build, and live operations across BMS, CCTV, and CMS environments, champion automation, and collaborate with engineering, security, and operations to optimize resilience and uptime.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead the full lifecycle—design, build, commissioning, and live operations—of complex engineering or infrastructure systems.
• Strong technical knowledge of Building Management Systems, Central Monitoring platforms, CCTV, or equivalent critical control environments.
• Experience operating within high-availability, mission-critical environments where resilience, uptime, and security are non‑negotiable.
• Deep understanding of physical and system security principles, with the ability to identify, mitigate, and manage operational risk.
• Track record of driving automation and Infrastructure as Code, reducing manual intervention, and improving operational performance at scale.
• Ability to design and integrate complex, multi‑vendor systems into cohesive, scalable, and future‑ready platforms.
• Ability to translate technical complexity into clear business value and influence stakeholders across engineering, security, and operations.
• Focus on service assurance, proactive monitoring, and continuous optimisation to enhance availability and performance.
• Networking, security, and identity management
• Experience in regulated or customer‑critical environments
• Leadership or mentoring experience

Responsibilities

• Architecting and delivering next-generation BMS, CMS and CCTV systems
• Driving automation-first infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell)
• Solving complex platform challenges across compute, storage, and networking
• Collaborating with engineers, architects, and operations teams to deliver seamless, end-to-end services
• Enhancing platform security, resilience, and performance at scale
• Championing best practices in incident, change, and problem management
• Creating clear, reusable runbooks and engineering standards
• Continuously improving how we build and run infrastructure—bringing new ideas and technologies into the business

Skills

Lifecycle management

BMS/CMS/CCTV systems

Infrastructure as Code

High-availability operations

Security principles

Automation

Multi-vendor integration

Stakeholder influence

Incident/Change/Problem management

Networking/identity management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Job description

Rubicon Consulting is seeking an Infrastructure Engineering Specialist for a 12‑month contract in Suffolk. You will join a specialist team delivering mission-critical infrastructure projects for government clients, focusing on secure, scalable systems and end-to-end service delivery.

You will lead design, build, and live operations across BMS, CCTV, and CMS environments, champion automation, and collaborate with engineering, security, and operations to optimize resilience and uptime.