Lead Infrastructure Engineer
| Posting date: | 04 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £60,300 to £66,330 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 £20,100. New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the pay range minimum. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 July 2025 |
| Location: | Sheffield |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 414568/3 |
Summary
You will oversee programmes and projects and work with Technical Architects to translate the architectural designs into operations and support technical architects in operationalising the designs.
You will lead and direct infrastructure teams in building, managing, transitioning, supporting and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy and ensure a feedback loop exists with service support to ensure continuous improvement. You are responsible for overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects and tasks.
We are looking for candidates with strong experience in the following technologies:
- Azure Networking (including Virtual WAN)
- Azure PaaS (including Azure App service, Azure SQL)
- Azure IaaS (including Virtual Machines)
- Terraform (including Modules, DRY code)
- CI CD (including GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
- Azure Policy and Governance
Additionally, experience in one of the following would be advantageous:
- Azure Local (Edge computing)
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- Azure Kubernetes Service
What you will do
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
- Leading teams and departments in the implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services.
- Reviewing systems designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, integration of multiple systems and technology and that ‘Secure by Design’ principles have been followed.
- Managing planning of system and/or acceptance tests, coordinating both functional and non-functional specifications and provide authoritative advice and guidance on test planning.
- Troubleshooting and identifying problems across different technology capabilities including compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, cloud, commercial off the shelf (COTS) and open source.
- Establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle and ensure that practitioners adhere to this. You will manage resources to ensure that the systems integration function works effectively.
- After a solution has been integrated, you will evaluate the success of the project, identifying best practices and lessons learned. You will provide feedback to teams and incorporate this information into future plans.
- Managing, coaching and mentoring more junior infrastructure engineers.
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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