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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Job details
Posting date: 20 May 2025
Salary: £55,557 to £68,517 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 08 June 2025
Location: LS2 7UA
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 405610/3

Summary

Technology Services provide the foundations upon which digital services for DWP are developed and operate. Our purpose is to deliver secure, effective, and cost-efficient digital infrastructure services and to run live IT operations that support DWP business objectives. We do this by putting users and quality of service at the heart of what we do.

Our team is made up of 1,500 colleagues working collaboratively across 10 portfolio-led teams in a fast-moving environment. Our teams deliver an end-to-end suite of digital products and services that support DWP colleagues and citizens in an ever-evolving technology landscape. Our work is focused around the following 6 themes:

  • Delivering a digital workplace that improves the way we work.
  • Delivering high-quality and resilient IT services and support.
  • Building a world-class performance-focused user experience control centre.
  • Exploiting and enhancing hybrid cloud services.
  • Protecting and securing our services.
  • Developing our people, capability and skills.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer who is a skilled Practitioner and role model in Identity solutions.

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

The Identity team is responsible for all elements of internal authentication within the DWP estate. This is primarily based around Active Directory/Entra ID but includes several other supporting infrastructure components, including DNS, Certificate Services, Encryption Key management, Modern Authentication (MFA, WHfB), Entra ID Connect and Single Sign On technologies. We also support a purpose-built Identity Management platform which integrates with ServiceNow, as well as operating privileged management systems such as CyberArk.

We are the owners of the service, accountable for all day-to-day operational support and all change/project related design elements. Without these services, core DWP business could not be delivered.

We own the Identity roadmap and have a multi-year plan to deliver an enhanced service, with several long-term pieces of work ongoing which include greater adoption of cloud services such as Azure, AWS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to work within our team which provides 365-day a year, 24/7 Identity services for DWPs user base.

Our aim is to provide a modern, reliable and flexible service that allows simple, secure access to DWP devices, Data and Systems using industry best practice for the following technologies:

Active Directory Domain Services, Entra ID, Entra ID Connect, Azure SSO, Azure IAM and CyberArk PAM.

In addition, working closely with DevOps/SREs, the Identity team manage all aspects of Identity and Access management relating to Microsoft Azure Cloud leveraging features such as PIM, MFA, CA Policies, User/Group/App Registration management and Defender for Identity.

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