Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

Lead Infrastructure Engineer role at UK Home Office
. This position involves managing third party provision of infrastructure services and delivering architectural solutions for infrastructure services throughout the service lifecycle. You will oversee programmes and projects, translate architectural designs into operations, and support technical architects in ope rationalising designs, particularly for core infrastructure projects that span the organisation.

You will lead and direct infrastructure teams in building, managing, transitioning, supporting and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy, and ensure a feedback loop with service support for continuous improvement. You are responsible for overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects and tasks.

Salary
: £62,109 plus skills allowance of up to £18,921 pending assessment.
Location
:
Liverpool (hybrid with 60% office attendance). Advert Close: 11:55 pm Monday 12th January.

Security clearance:
This role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally require 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years.

• Leading teams and departments in the implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services.
• Reviewing systems designs to ensure appropriate technology selection, efficient resource use, proper integration, and adherence to 7
  
  Secure by Design principles.
• Managing planning of system and/or acceptance tests, coordinating functional and non-functional specifications, and providing authoritative guidance on test planning.
• Troubleshooting and identifying problems across compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, cloud, COTS and open source.
• Establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle and ensuring practitioners adhere to them; managing resources to ensure effective systems integration.
• Evaluating project success after integration and feeding lessons learned back into future plans.
• Managing, coaching and mentoring more junior infrastructure engineers.

Tools and technologies

We are keen for engineers to continue learning new technologies. The Home Office uses a large range of tools, including:

• Terraform (including Modules, DRY code)
• Azure Policy and Governance

Additional qualifications (advantageous)

• Azure Local (Edge computing)

• 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 enable automated and consistent platform deployments.
• Support cloud adoption of applications as they are transformed and/or modernised.
• Uphold key engineering principles and standards and inspire others to follow them.
• Ensure all solutions are robust, resilient, secured, tested and well documented.
• Demonstrate awareness of civil service pension and benefits where applicable.
• Time off and leave policies aligned with government standards and flexible working options where available.
• Commitment to 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service, plus eight public holidays plus one additional privilege day.
• Parental leave and related family support policies; options for carers and guardians.

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• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Information Technology
• Industries:
  Government Administration

Note:

This description is focused on the UK Home Office role and does not include third-party postings or unrelated listings.