Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Home Office; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 62,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

Home Office in Manchester is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to oversee infrastructure services, translate architectures into operations, and guide teams across core infrastructure projects. You will supervise workforce planning, budgeting, and technology roadmaps while ensuring Secure by Design principles and ongoing improvements.

The role requires SC clearance with UK residency considerations and a hybrid work pattern (60% office).

Qualifications

• Manage and administer 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.

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 and efficient resource use.
• Managing planning of system tests and coordinating functional and non-functional specs.
• Troubleshooting across compute, storage, networking, cloud and open source.
• Establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle and managing resources.

Skills

Azure administration

Multi-region Azure

Infrastructure as code

Cloud adoption support

Secure by design

Policy governance

Team mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Azure

Azure Policy

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.

Senior level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries: Government Administration