Lead Infrastructure Engineer

UK Home Office; Sefton; Hybrid; GBP 62,109 - 80,930; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil service pension with 28.97% employer contribution

25 days annual leave plus public holidays

Flexible working options

Job summary

A governmental agency in the UK seeks a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to oversee infrastructure services within a hybrid working model. Responsibilities include managing infrastructure projects, mentorship, and ensuring robust Azure environments. The ideal candidate has strong experience with Microsoft Azure, infrastructure as code, and team leadership. The role offers competitive salary and generous benefits, including a civil service pension and flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable passion for infrastructure engineering.
• Experience in leading infrastructure teams.
• Ability to design and implement resilient solutions.

Responsibilities

• Manage third-party infrastructure services and architectural solutions.
• Oversee and direct teams for core infrastructure projects.
• Mentor junior engineers in best practices.

Skills

Microsoft Azure management

Infrastructure as code (IaC)

Project management

Team leadership

Security governance

Tools

Terraform

Azure Policy

Job description

Overview

Lead Infrastructure Engineer role at UK Home Office. Location: Southport (hybrid with 60% office attendance). Salary: £62,109 plus skills allowance of up to £18,921 pending assessment. 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.

Note: This listing includes additional recruiter information and related job postings shown for context. The essential content focuses on the Lead Infrastructure Engineer responsibilities, required skills, and benefits as described below.

Responsibilities

• A Lead Infrastructure Engineer assumes responsibility for managing third party provision of infrastructure services and delivering architectural solutions for infrastructure services throughout the service lifecycle.
• You will oversee programmes and projects and work with Technical Architects to translate architectural designs into operations and support technical architects in operationalising the designs, particularly 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 with service support to enable continuous improvement. You are responsible for overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects and tasks.
• Manage, coach and mentor more junior infrastructure engineers.

Tools and Technologies

We encourage engineers to learn new technologies. The Home Office uses a wide range of tools, including:

• Terraform (including Modules, DRY code)
• Azure Policy and Governance

Desirable additional experience:

• Azure Local (Edge computing)

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.
• Flexibility in working options to support work/life balance, plus potential future career breaks.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service; 8 public holidays plus one additional privilege day; maternity, adoption or shared parental leave provisions; paternity leave; carers support and related benefits.
• Time off to deal with emergencies and certain unplanned special circumstances.

Qualifications and requirements

Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role, which may entail residency considerations as noted above. The position also implies experience in leading infrastructure teams and delivering complex infrastructure solutions across an organisational scope.

Application and next steps

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Seniorities, employment type, and job function

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: Government Administration