Senior Infrastructure Enigneer

Full-time (Permanent) Up to £44720 per annum + £12,680 p/a
Manchester Published on 23 April 2025 Deadline 7 May 2025

A Senior Infrastructure Engineer builds, administers, transitions, supports and maintains infrastructure services throughout the service lifecycle, according to the departmental policy and Home Office strategy.

What will you be doing?

You will work in a team of Infrastructure Engineers ensuring services are integrated, delivered and operated as required. You will work with and support third parties in providing infrastructure services and with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations.

You will provide input into overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects and tasks.

Strong experience in the following technologies:

• Azure Local (Edge computing)
• Azure Policy and Governance
• Terraform

Your skills for this role:

• 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.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to address and resolve technical escalations.
• Advising on future technology changes and innovations and define best practice for network improvements and information security.
• 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.
• Providing direction and coaching to more junior members.

Benefits:

• Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King's Birthday.
• Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).
• Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).
• Inclusion and recognition: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.

Please note: This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you must typically have been resident in the UK for at least five years.

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