Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Posting date:	22 April 2025
Salary:	£73,900 to £81,290 per year
Additional salary information:	You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £21,700. New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the pay range minimum.
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	04 May 2025
Location:	Liverpool
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	398681/1

Summary

A Principal Infrastructure Engineer is an accomplished technical leader. They develop the engineering road-maps for technologies and services in their area of responsibility, ensuring relevance and alignment with architectural road-maps to ensure the organisation derives maximum value from investment in technologies. They are key stakeholders for defining engineering best practice within the Home Office and inspire others to follow this.

You may own the operational relationships with suppliers ensuring services and products are delivered and aligned to industry best practice, regulatory and contractual requirements.

You will lead and direct infrastructure teams in building, managing, supporting and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy and strategy. You will work with technical architects to ensure there is continuous improvement to the service catalogue, future designs and service operability.

You will lead on overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology road-maps, projects and tasks.

Strong experience in the following technologies: -

• Azure Local (Edge computing)

• Azure Virtual Desktop

• Azure Policy and Governance

• Azure PaaS (Azure App service, Azure SQL)

• Azure Networking

• Azure Virtual Machines

• Azure Kubernetes Service

• Terraform

• Azure DevOps

What you will do

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Leading teams and departments in the design, implementation, transition, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services
• Providing operational feedback to technical architects to ensure their designs are meeting the needs of the infrastructure engineers
• Providing support to make sure that solutions and services are designed with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats
• Ensuring that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate problems, coordinating teams to investigate problems, implement solutions and establish preventative measures
• Establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle and ensure that engineers adhere to this. Managing resources to ensure that the systems integration function works effectively
• Defining and helping shape engineering best practices and standards
• Developing team members using your knowledge and experience, engendering collaboration and progress for individuals and teams

Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.

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