Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

National History Museum; London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The National History Museum seeks a Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer to support its digital strategy. This role involves managing cloud infrastructure and providing technical support for internal and public-facing applications, contributing to the Museum's mission of inspiring care for the natural world.

Benefits

27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays

Generous pension scheme

Life insurance

Staff discounts at shops and cafes

Training initiatives and skill development

Access to gym and sports clubs

Qualifications

• Expertise in cloud and infrastructure technologies.
• Experience maintaining Linux-based systems.
• Ability to manage third-party applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to digital product teams.
• Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure.
• Ensure routine maintenance of applications.

Skills

Cloud technology

Linux

Infrastructure Management

Emotional intelligence

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Relevant technical degree or equivalent experience

Job description

About Us

We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.

Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.

We employ 900 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.

Diversity and inclusion matter to us.

Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. Diversity is one of our core values and we strive to build a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. All new staff who join us learn about the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Museum and how to contribute to creating an inclusive environment.

We know we have more to do, but we are committed to ensuring that everyone who works at the Museum feels they can thrive and feel valued and respected.

About the role

The Museum’s Technology Solutions team is looking for an experienced Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer to play a key role in the realisation of an ambitious digital strategy, providing technical support to our Digital Product teams serving a variety of public, internal and scientific audiences.

You’ll be part of a highly collaborative and supportive technical team working proactively to maintain and improve the Museum’s web infrastructure and drive modernisation initiatives as we peruse an ambitious programme of change. You will be the main point of contact for our Product teams on technical issues and will maintain an understanding of hosted applications and the product teams they relate to. This role will also manage a small number of third-party applications that form part of the Digital Product environment, including Adobe Experience Manager CMS, performing routine maintenance and upgrades. You will also support our scientific research teams by maintaining Linux based compute /storage devices and HPC job schedules

About you

We are seeking a Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Architect who is not only a technical expert with a strong desire for continuous learning and adaptation to new technologies, but also a collaborative and inspirational team member. The ideal candidate will possess a highly professional approach, excelling at building relationships with stakeholders and consistently connecting team efforts to our organisational mission. They will be adept at fostering trust, simplifying processes, enabling team success, and navigating complex situations with emotional intelligence, always valuing diverse perspectives and taking ownership for collective outcomes.

Thriving at the Museum: the way we work

We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum’s values and forms the framework for the way we work.

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What we offer

• 27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (full time equivalent)
• Generous defined contribution Natural History Museum Pension Scheme (employer contribution 4 - 10%)
• Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan
• Life insurance
• Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK.
• Staff discount at our Museum shops and cafes
• We offer a wide variety of training initiatives and opportunities to build skills. Investing in staff development is important to us, and we are ambitious about helping staff to grow and fulfil their potential.
• Affordable membership to the Civil Service Sports Council which offers a range of benefits including an extensive list of special offers and reduced entry fees at a selection of cinema chains, theme parks, theatres, retailers and supermarkets. It also provides entry to up to 300 English Heritage sites and other national treasures. For more details, visit https://www.cssc.co.uk
• Membership to our Sports and Social Association (for a small fee), which includes access to our in-house gym and clubs such as football, softball, table tennis and tennis and classes in Middle Eastern dance, yoga and Tai Chi

Hybrid working

We are working towards a vision where both people and planet thrive, and nothing gives a greater connection with this, than seeing first-hand, the visitors, scientific research and collections that all of our work is inspired by and working side by side with the teams delivering the visitor experience and events. We also recognise the benefits and flexibility that hybrid working brings. We operate a hybrid working model that requires regular, weekly attendance for this role, with the precise pattern of days on site and worked from home to be agreed with your manager.

How to apply

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Closing date: 23:59 on 15 July 2025

Interviews expected: w/c 28 July 2025

Please note that this role does not qualify for Museum sponsorship so the successful postholder will need to have a valid right to work in the UK at the point of offer.