Senior Infrastructure Engineer - HMRC - SEO

Manchester Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

HMRC is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps) to work in an agile, fast-paced environment delivering and maintaining database products and solutions. You will guide teams on best practices and ensure availability while delivering quality infrastructure in cloud and on‑premise environments.

The role emphasizes Terraform/Ansible IaC, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure), Linux scripting, and modern CD/CI tooling. A 24x7 on‑call rota is expected within a supportive hybrid working arrangement.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in infrastructure management in large, enterprise environments.
• Experience delivering infrastructure in cloud and on-premise, with IaC focus (Terraform/Ansible).
• Strong knowledge of AWS and Azure cloud platforms; Linux OS and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Proactively contribute technical leadership to the DevOps Engineering Community of Practice.
• Manage Infrastructure across development to production in on‑premise and Cloud IaaS/PaaS environments.
• Configure and maintain IaC, including monitoring system health and performance.

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

IaC

Cloud AWS

Cloud Azure

Linux scripting

DevOps practices

Tools

Git

Kubernetes

Artifactory

Job description

Location

Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Telford Worthing, Stratford

Please note that due to workforce controls, Stratford is only available to existing HMRC staff in these locations. HMRC staff based in Reading can also apply to move to Stratford in line with Migration path. HMRC staff based in 100PS can also apply to move to Stratford.

About The Job

Job summary

Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it's really like to work at HMRC.

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As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps), you will work in an Agile fast-paced environment helping to deliver and maintain database products and solutions. Already a skilled Practitioner and role model, you will ensure best practices are adhered to and guide teams on how to deliver and support quality database products.

In addition, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, configuration, maintenance of critical infrastructure in the cloud and on-premise, to ensure the availability and consistent performance of our products and services within agreed service levels.

At HMRC, diversity is normal here, and we are a considerate organisation that values respect for its people. We offer exceptional flexibility and work-life balance through fair hybrid working arrangements, supporting families and accommodating personal needs. Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion ensures everyone has a sense of belonging, with attention to allergies and support for neurodiversity.

Your career will flourish with our clear path for advancement, extensive training and development opportunities, and chance to gain qualifications whilst progressing through grades. You will experience challenging work in our future-focused initiatives, contributing to inspiring purpose and ethical standards that make a social difference.

Join us in our service-led organisation where great working conditions meet rewarding opportunities and where your technical expertise directly supports the nation's essential services.

Job Description

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record as an Infrastructure Engineer or DevOps Engineer, and you will have experience of:

• Providing effective infrastructure management and support gained in very large, highly available, enterprise-class environments.
• Technical experience should include, but not limited to, modern delivery of Infrastructure within the cloud, security, backups and restores and on-premise to cloud migrations, with an emphasis on Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Person specification

Responsibilities

• Proactively contribute to the DevOps Engineering Community of Practice by providing technical leadership and mentorship to less experienced team members.
• Manage Infrastructure through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems on-premise and Cloud IaaS and PaaS environments.
• Configure and maintain IaC, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure optimum levels of performance, availability, security, and automation.
• Support architects and developers to ensure design, development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.
• Independently analyse, tackle, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
• Assist developers with complex query tuning, schema refinement and cloud migration approaches.

Essential Criteria

• Expertise in Terraform and Ansible
• Expertise pipeline delivery of IaC
• Expertise level knowledge of Cloud infrastructure technologies such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, IaaS- and PaaS-based solutions
• Expertise level skills in Linux OS and scripting
• Expertise of DevOps practices, continuous delivery tooling (for example, Artifactory, Git, Kubernetes)

Desirable Criteria

• Working knowledge of Agile deliveries, collaborative tooling and techniques, including Jira and Kanban
• Working knowledge of ITIL 3 or 4 processes
• Understanding of government or public sector technology requirements

Additionally, you will be expected to be included in a 24x7 on-call rota to perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.