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Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Job details
Posting date: 30 December 2025
Salary: £62,109 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 £18,291.
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 12 January 2026
Location: Manchester
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 441498/2

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Summary

A Lead Infrastructure Engineer assumes responsibility for managing third party provision of infrastructure services and the provision of expertise to deliver architectural solutions for infrastructure services throughout the service lifecycle.

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, in particular for core infrastructure projects that span the entire organisation.

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.

Watch this short video to hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital.

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.

Tools and Technologies we use:

We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:

  • 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

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