Infrastructure Engineering Specialist

Rubicon Consulting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for an Infrastructure Engineering Specialist on a 12 Month Contract based in Suffolk. You’ll join a specialist team within Business that is a trusted partner to governments worldwide, protecting critical national infrastructure and committed to safety and security.

Our mission-focused work is innovative, inspiring and technically challenging, offering opportunities to work on rare projects with exciting tools and brilliant people.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead the full lifecycle—design, build, commissioning, and live operations—of complex engineering or infrastructure systems.
• Strong 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.

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.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

BMS/CMS/CCTV systems

Leadership

Stakeholder influence

Security best practices

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Job description

Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for a Infrastructure Engineering Specialist on a 12 Month Contract based in Suffolk.

Role Summary

You’ll be joining a specialist team within Business that is a trusted partner to governments worldwide, protecting critical national infrastructure and committed to the safety and security of our nation and global communities.

Our mission focused work is innovative, inspiring and technologically challenging in a way that makes every day different and stimulating. We provide the opportunity to work on rare projects, with exciting tools and brilliant people. Everyone has access to unparalleled professional and personal development opportunities, and your contribution is always valued.

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

Requirements

• 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

Our Company

Rubicon Consulting is a Talent management consultancy which helps you to optimise business performance and competitive advantage by choosing the right people first time