Senior Infrastructure Engineer
| Posting date: | 30 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,062 to £50,182 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £46,062 London: £50,182 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: | 12 January 2026 |
| Location: | Liverpool |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 441224/2 |
Summary
The team handles a diverse range of systems, concepts, and technologies. This includes Windows and Linux servers, core Windows technologies such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Certificate Authority. They also manage server and service monitoring, Infrastructure as Code, immutable infrastructure, automation and serverless compute as well as public cloud provided services across several major public cloud vendors. The team collaborates extensively with other traditional infrastructure teams for connectivity and services as well as application teams to move legacy workloads to the cloud.
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.
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A Senior Infrastructure Engineer builds, administers, transitions, supports and maintains infrastructure services throughout the service lifecycle, according to the departmental policy and Home Office strategy.
You will work in a team of Infrastructure Engineers ensuring services are integrated, delivered and operated as the need arises. You will work with and support third parties in providing infrastructure services and with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations.
You will provide input into overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects and tasks.
Tools and technologies:
We encourage applications from candidates who have experience in one or more of the below:
- Privileged Access Management solution such as CyberArk, Beyond Trust or Delinea
- Identity and Security, Active Directory and EntraID, Semperis DSP, SSO, ADFS, AADC
- Solid Windows Server Management & Infrastructure Knowledge such as DHCP, DNS, RDS, IIS, PKI, SCCM
- SQL or .NET framework
- Solid knowledge of Cloud Technologies (AWS or Azure Cloud)
- Solid Understanding of Infrastructure Monitoring and Security Tools, such as Grafana, Dynatrace, SCOM, Splunk etc.
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