Infrastructure Manager

UK Health Security Agency; Greater London, Idmiston; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service pension 28.97%

Learning & certifications

Career development opportunities

Collaborative culture

Job summary

UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) seeks an experienced Infrastructure Manager to lead enterprise infrastructure services across hybrid locations (Porton Down, Colindale, Chilton). The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical direction to ensure secure, reliable and scalable operations supporting national health security.

The successful candidate will manage an estate including virtualization, storage, backup, and network fabrics, guiding a skilled team and setting the technical

Qualifications

• Lifecycle management for VMware environments.
• Lifecycle management for Veeam backup infrastructure.
• Lifecycle management of Fibre Channel or iSCSI networks.
• Ensuring availability, functionality, performance and security of infrastructure.
• Experience leading technical infrastructure teams or transferable leadership skills.
• Deep storage expertise and SAN administration.

Responsibilities

• Oversee operational performance, security and resilience of UKHSA infrastructure.
• Lead upgrade, modernization and technology refresh programs.
• Provide technical direction and investment planning for services.
• Drive reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement across teams.

Skills

VMware lifecycle

Veeam lifecycle

Fibre Channel / iSCSI

Availability & security

Team leadership

Storage

SAN

Job description

Additional Allowance: Market Pay Supplement of £5,000 to £15,000

Location: Chilton, Colindale or Porton Down (Hybrid Working)

Lead Critical Infrastructure That Protects the Nation's Health

At the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), our technology underpins some of the UK's most important scientific, research and public health capabilities. We're looking for an experienced Infrastructure Manager to lead the services that keep these critical operations running securely, reliably and at scale.

This is an opportunity to move beyond traditional infrastructure management and play a direct role in supporting the UK's health security. You'll lead a highly skilled team while remaining closely involved in the technical direction and delivery of a complex, enterprise-scale infrastructure environment.

Managing an estate that includes 2,500 compute cores, 10PB of storage, enterprise backup services, network fabric and edge data centre facilities, you'll have the opportunity to shape future infrastructure strategy, drive innovation and ensure the resilience of services that matter.

Reporting to the Head of Network and Infrastructure, this role offers an exciting blend of strategic leadership (40%) and technical expertise (60%), making it ideal for a senior infrastructure professional who enjoys both leading people and solving complex technical challenges.

The role can be based at Porton Down, Colindale or Chilton, with occasional travel between UKHSA sites and attendance at corporate and industry events.

What You'll Be Doing

Driving Infrastructure Excellence

You’ll have responsibility for the operational performance, security, resilience and future development of UKHSA’s infrastructure services, including:

• Virtualisation platforms, hosts and supporting infrastructure fabric
• Multi-vendor storage environments across on-premise and cloud platforms
• Enterprise backup and recovery services
• Infrastructure upgrade, modernisation and technology refresh programmes

You’ll ensure services remain secure, available and fit for the future while identifying opportunities to improve performance, efficiency and user experience.

Leading and Developing High-Performing Teams

As Infrastructure Manager, you’ll provide both technical and people leadership, empowering a multidisciplinary team of infrastructure specialists to deliver exceptional services.

You’ll:

• Lead, coach and develop a team of highly skilled infrastructure professionals
• Set the technical direction for infrastructure services and future investment
• Drive service reliability, operational excellence and continuous improvement
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation and professional growth
• Ensure services align with organisational priorities, security standards and industry best practice

What We're Looking For

• Lifecycle Management of VMWare
• Lifecycle Management of Veeam
• Lifecycle Management of Fibre Channel Network or iSCSI
• Availability, Functionality, Performance & Security thereof
• Managing technical teams, or evidence of transferable skills
• Storage
• SAN

Why Join UKHSA?

This is your opportunity to apply your technical expertise to work that genuinely makes a difference.

At UKHSA, you'll be part of an organisation whose technology supports critical public services and helps protect the health and wellbeing of millions of people.

In return, you’ll benefit from:

• Working on nationally significant technology services
• A generous Civil Service pension, with employer contributions averaging 28.97%
• Exposure to complex, large-scale and diverse network environments
• Investment in learning, development and professional certifications
• A collaborative, supportive and inclusive culture
• Opportunities to influence the future of critical public sector technology

Discover more about our rewards and benefits: Rewards and benefits – UKHSA | Civil Service Careers

This role closes on 11th September 2026 at 23.55