Lead Infrastructure Engineer
| Posting date: | 15 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £62,109 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £62,109 London: £66,229 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: | 27 January 2026 |
| Location: | Liverpool |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 443925/2 |
Summary
A Lead Infrastructure Engineer assumes responsibility for coordinating with 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 architectural designs into operational systems and support technical architects.
You will lead and direct infrastructure teams in building, managing, transitioning, supporting and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy and foster open feedback and continuous learning with service support to ensure continuous improvement. You are responsible for overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects and tasks.
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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We are looking to recruit 2 Lead Infrastructure Engineers across 2 teams.
1 Role - Within Enterprise Services (ES), the Cyber Team is responsible for securing Home Office cloud platforms through the implementation and ongoing maintenance of advanced security technologies. Your main focus initially will be to lead a team to promote and support the onboarding of assets to a protective monitoring service using Defender XDR features. You will act as a security subject matter expert within our security technology services team, offering specialised knowledge in administration, support, and the execution of project and product deliverables. Our team is committed to advancing intelligent solutions by utilising cutting-edge security capabilities.
1 Role – The Endpoint Experience team is the front end to all home office systems and services from the client perspective. We ensure end user devices and OS platforms are best fit for exceptional user experiences whilst also working closely with security and architecture teams. We develop many different controls and customisation depending on each area’s requirement. We are secure by design and align to modern security benchmarks. This includes laptops, smartphones, kiosks and virtual environments, along with the management of core applications across those platforms. The Lead Engineer will be responsible for the creation/validation of design, continual improvement and maintenance of these products working within a team of lead infrastructure engineers, engineers, delivery managers and product managers. In addition, the lead engineering role is responsible for technical road mapping, innovation and developing the engineering team capabilities.
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:
Tools and Technologies we use:
- Microsoft M365, Samsung Knox, Apple Business Manager
- Azure Virtual Desktop, Nerdio, Windows365
- Nexthink
- Microsoft Entra
- Microsoft Defender XDR
- Automation Tools: PowerShell, Azure Runbooks, Azure Dev Ops Repos/Pipelines
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