Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Flexera Lead

Government Recruitment Service; Borough of Fylde; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead the Flexera Engineering Team. You will oversee the design and delivery of new services, ensure operational stability, and manage staff effectively. Ideal candidates will have experience with Flexera FlexNet Management Suite, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies like AWS or Azure. This role offers a chance to contribute to major digital transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in deploying and supporting Flexera FlexNet Management Suite is essential.
• Familiarity with cloud implementations such as AKS and EKS.
• Solid understanding of IT infrastructure concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design and delivery of new services to enhance the visibility and performance of systems.
• Maintain operational stability and improve resilience of solutions.
• Lead the Flexera Engineering Team and manage staff responsibilities.

Skills

Experience with Flexera FlexNet Management Suite

Kubernetes

AWS and Azure cloud services

Infrastructure as Code

Linux distributions

Windows Server

Job description

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

Do you have experience of deploying and supporting Flexera FlexNet Management Suite (on-premise) Infrastructure and associated integrations with Kubernetes (including cloud implementations such as AKS and EKS), Nutanix, ServiceNow, Citrix and Active Directory to name but a few?

Do you also have experience of leveraging Infrastructure as Code to deploy Flexera One agents to AWS and Azure cloud services?

Do you want to work with us on a once-in-a-generation digital transformation?

If so, click that apply button now and become our next Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead our Flexera Engineering Team.

You will join the DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) Enterprise Tooling Team, responsible for managing and maintaining a range of enterprise products that monitor and report on the performance of the Department’s IT systems.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer-Flexera Lead:

• You'll be responsible for the design, delivery and on-boarding of new services to our existing FNMS installation to enhance the visibility and performance of the Departments systems. You will also be responsible for ensuring the operational stability of our solutions and to improve the on-going robustness and resilience of this product.
• You will have responsibility for maintenance and ownership of the Flexera FlexNet Management Suiteand underlying infrastructure as well as being responsible for Stakeholder Management.
• You will have staff management responsibilities and lead the team, working closely with other Enterprise Tooling teams, Live Service engineers and application owners to ensure the systems and services, which monitor and manage the DWP estate, are operational, performant and that key application metrics are produced accurately.
• You will be joining a team of IT Engineers that are committed to designing, developing, deploying and supporting core IT services that underpin the DWP’s citizen facing systems. These services provide the monitoring necessary to know how healthy the underlying infrastructure or application is and that core IT services are operating in a performant manner.
• You will be expected to be responsible for ensuring best practices are adhered to across the Department and guiding teams on how to deliver quality products.
• Your role will maintain responsibility for all engineering elements within your product set; the focus will be on design and implementation but also provide subject matter expertise to ensure that our tooling portfolio is running optimally.
• In this role, you’ll ensure our team work to ITIL standards across Incident, Problem and Change management as you design and maintain the Portfolio of Enterprise Tools within our domain to provide a robust and modern enterprise strength capability.
• You will be the escalation point for any live service issues related to your toolsets and provide supportand assistance to junior staff and users.
• You'll have a solid understanding of IT infrastructure concepts, enabling you to work effectively with internal and external partners, stakeholders, and customers.
• You will have experience in the Tooling Portfolio that we operate, specifically the installation and support of the Flexera FlexNet Manager Suite is essential. Your experience should include working experience of rolling out the Flexera One agent across a variety of operating systems and cloud services including Kubernetes within AKS and EKS environments. You will be familiar with Infrastructure as code deployments and of working with both Windows Server and various distributions of Linux.

We operate a variety of systems including Windows Server and various flavours of UNIX. You will be confident remotely accessing servers via Remote Desktop Services and SSH.

Our Tooling Portfolio monitors and analyzes our Hybrid hosting estate which is heavily leaning toward a substantial Public Cloud footprint. Therefore, we are looking for applicants with engineering skills and confidence to deploy and support cloud instance elements both via the console or using Infrastructure as Code techniques. As we move towards more solutions based on containerisation technologies you will also be expected to have, and be able to demonstrate, a good understanding of this.