Senior Infrastructure & Security Engineer (Contract)

Matchtech Group; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 6,199,000 - 9,643,000; Full time

Job summary

Matchtech Group is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for a contract with a public sector organisation in Cardiff. The role focuses on delivering and maintaining secure, resilient infrastructure and platform services that support critical operations, with emphasis on security by design and compliance.

You will build, administer and harden infrastructure, manage identity and access, monitoring and incident response, and drive automation to improve availability and security across services.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in IT infrastructure engineering, administration and support.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security, resilience and secure platform design.
• Experience with infrastructure hardening, configuration management and vulnerability management.
• Knowledge of identity and access management principles and security best practice.
• Understanding of monitoring, incident response and operational risk management.
• Ability to identify opportunities for automation and continuous service improvement.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to provide technical advice to varied stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a user, service and risk-focused approach.

Responsibilities

• Building, administering, supporting and maintaining secure and compliant infrastructure and platform solutions.
• Applying security best practice to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of organisational data and services.
• Providing expert advice on secure environments, configuration management and infrastructure hardening.
• Supporting identity and access management, vulnerability management, monitoring and incident response activities.
• Maintaining resilient and highly available services in line with departmental policies and security standards.
• Driving continuous improvement and automation to enhance security, resilience and operational effectiveness.
• Working collaboratively with infrastructure specialists, engineers and teams across the organisation.
• Contributing to the ongoing protection of critical services against evolving cyber threats.

Skills

IT infrastructure

Security principles

Vulnerability management

Automation

Tools

Identity & Access Management

Monitoring & Incident Response

Job description

Matchtech Group is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for a contract with a public sector organisation in Cardiff. The role focuses on delivering and maintaining secure, resilient infrastructure and platform services that support critical operations, with emphasis on security by design and compliance.

You will build, administer and harden infrastructure, manage identity and access, monitoring and incident response, and drive automation to improve availability and security across services.