Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Data Centre

Posting date:	29 December 2025
Salary:	£46,062 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 £11,338.
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	11 January 2026
Location:	Farnborough
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	440664/2

Summary

The Home Office has several Data Centres that form an on-premise hosting for a variety of services. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer working as a Data Centre Manager you will be part of the Co-Location Services team, working alongside other Infrastructure Engineers to ensure that these facilities operate in accordance with Departmental Policies, Standards and industry best practices.

The role encompasses the maintenance of the Data Centre infrastructure throughout service and asset lifecycles as well as working with projects to deliver solutions using the latest technologies. An important element of which is the management of, and collaboration with, suppliers, Technical/Solution Architects and other specialists to deliver sustainable solutions.

In addition, you will support the management of the Co-Location Service offerings and work with teams across the Home Office to develop these services to meet future demand.

Where business needs allow some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office.

The successful candidate ideally will be based at the Corsham site, travel to other locations will be required as part of the role, according to business requirements.

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As part of the Co-Location Services Team, you will be working collaboratively with Programs and Projects, Technical Architects and other Infrastructure Engineers to ensure that the architectural designs and/or Project requirements translate into physical solutions that comply with Data Centre standards and industry best practice. This involves actively managing capacity (power, space) ensuring current and forecast demand is met.

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