Lead Infrastructure Engineer

UK Home Office; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 558,098 - 682,119; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-year reward scheme

Civil service pension with large employer contribution

25 days annual leave

26 weeks maternity or adoption leave

Paid leave for fostering processes

Support for carers

Job summary

A government department is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to manage infrastructure services and provide architectural solutions. Located in Manchester, this hybrid role offers a salary of £62,109 plus an allowance of up to £18,921. Essential skills include Microsoft Azure management, Infrastructure as Code, and troubleshooting. The position provides 25 days annual leave, a civil service pension, and flexible working options. Candidates must pass Security Check clearance and have 5 years’ UK residency.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated passion for Infrastructure Engineering.
• Experience in managing Microsoft Azure environments.
• Ability to design robust, resilient, and well-documented solutions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee programs and projects in infrastructure services.
• Lead infrastructure teams in managing and maintaining solutions.
• Evaluate project success and incorporate lessons learned.

Skills

Microsoft Azure management

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Cloud deployment

System design

Troubleshooting across technologies

Tools

Terraform

Azure Policy and Governance

Job description

Overview

Lead Infrastructure Engineer role at UK Home Office. Salary: £62,109 plus skills allowance of up to £18,921 pending assessment. Location: Manchester (hybrid with 60% office attendance). Advert Close: 11:55 pm Monday 12th January. Please note that this role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years.

A Lead Infrastructure Engineer assumes responsibility for managing third party provision of infrastructure services and the provision of expertise to deliver architectural solutions for infrastructure services throughout the service lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• You will oversee programmes and projects and work with Technical Architects to translate the architectural designs into operations and support technical architects in operationalising the designs, in particular for core infrastructure projects that span the entire organisation.
• You will lead and direct infrastructure teams in building, managing, transitioning, supporting and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy and ensure a feedback loop exists with service support to ensure continuous improvement. You are responsible for overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects and tasks.
• Tools and Technologies we use: Terraform (including Modules, DRY code); Azure Policy and Governance. Additionally, experience in one of the following would be advantageous: Azure Local (Edge computing).

Main responsibilities

• Leading teams and departments in the implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services.
• Reviewing systems designs to ensure 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 provide 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 ensure that practitioners adhere to this. You will manage resources to ensure that the systems integration function works effectively.
• After a solution has been integrated, you will evaluate the success of the project, identifying best practices and lessons learned. You will provide feedback to teams and incorporate this information into future plans.
• Managing, coaching and mentoring more junior infrastructure engineers.

Note: We maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.

Essential skills

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.
• A civil service pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%.
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
• The ability to potentially adopt flexible working options that suit your work/life balance, plus the opportunity in future to take a career break.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
• Eight days public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
• 26 weeks maternity, adoption or shared parental leave at full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, after qualifying service.
• Maternity and adoption support leave (also known as paternity leave) of two weeks full pay, after qualifying service.
• Paid leave for fostering approval processes, support when a child is substantively placed with you plus a foster to adopt policy.
• Support for guardians and kinship carers.
• Corporate membership of ‘Employers for Carers’ providing additional information and advice for carers, plus a ‘Carer’s Passport’ to discuss workplace needs and underpin supportive conversations.
• Time off to deal with emergencies and certain other unplanned special circumstances.

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries: Government Administration

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