Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 43,923 - 73,205; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Civil service pension 28.97%

Flexible hours

Generous holidays 26–31 days

Job summary

DWP Digital is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy and optimise hybrid infrastructure across Windows, Linux, cloud platforms, and containers. You will lead technical delivery, champion security and resilience, and mentor colleagues while shaping modern infrastructure services.

The role offers hybrid working in UK hubs, generous benefits including a civil service pension, and a path to develop expertise across AKS, EKS and cloud-native platforms.

Qualifications

• Evidence a strong track record in designing and delivering infrastructure services and solutions across hybrid environments.
• Experience with Windows Server and Unix/Linux distributions.
• Proven ability to deploy and manage containerised platforms.
• Strong IaC and agent-based deployment experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment and improvement of enterprise monitoring and asset management across hybrid environments.
• Provide technical leadership and drive engineering best practices.
• Mentor engineers and act as senior escalation point for live incidents.

Skills

Infrastructure design

Hybrid server estate

Windows Server

Unix/Linux

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

Communication

Mentoring

Agent-based collection

Tools

AKS

EKS

IaC tooling

Job description

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Pay up to £73,205 plus
28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department.

We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique.

We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and significant experience will you need?

Evidence a strong track record in designing and delivering infrastructure services and solutions, working within a hybrid server estate including multiple Operating Systems such as Microsoft Windows Server, multiple Unix or Linux distributions and containerised platforms, to meet strategic plans and roadmaps.

Demonstrate significant experience in providing specialist technical support and assistance to projects ensuring definition and delivery of requisite non-functional requirements to architectural and roadmap developments.

Exhibit significant experience managing, supporting and mentoring the development of team members and consumers alike to successfully deliver high quality outcomes that meet the customers' needs and provides value for money.

Be able to show significant demonstrable experience of using multiple scripting languages across different operating systems this must include agent deployment by Infrastructure as Code techniques.

Demonstrate significant experience of effectively communicating at different levels, across support and engineering, business users, architecture and suppliers.

Proven significant experience of designing, implementing and managing a hybrid On Premise and Public Cloud agent based collection architecture including agent rollout to multiple technologies including knowledge of Infrastructure as Code deployment techniques to the Departments platforms.

You and your role

You and your role You'll lead the design, deployment and improvement of enterprise monitoring and asset management solutions across hybrid environments, working with Windows, Linux, cloud platforms, containers, AKS and EKS. You'll be a technical leader, driving engineering best practice, supporting cloud-hosted infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code, and ensuring our platforms remain secure, resilient and high performing.

Working closely with engineers, service owners and stakeholders, you'll help shape modern infrastructure services, solve complex technical challenges and act as the senior escalation point for live incidents.

You'll also play a key role in mentoring engineers, growing capability across the team and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.

Details

Wages.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Manchester or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model

• you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £73,205 Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of
28.97%, worth over £16,000 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time.

You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
• Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.
• You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time.
• You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards

Process

Interview: a single stage interview online.

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