Principal Infrastructure Engineer
| Posting date: | 16 June 2026 |
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| Salary: | £80,237 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 £19,483. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 June 2026 |
| Location: | Croydon, London |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Government Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 465414 |
Summary
A Principal Infrastructure Engineer is a technical leader, responsible for developing strategic and tactical engineering roadmaps for technologies and services, ensuring they are future proofed and maximise value of technology investments. You define engineering best practice within the Home Office and inspire others to adopt them.
You may be responsible for the operational relationships with suppliers, ensuring services and products are delivered and aligned to industry best practice, regulatory and contractual requirements.
Leading infrastructure teams, you oversee the building, managing, supporting, and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy and strategy. You will work with technical architects, ensuring continuous improvement to the service catalogue, future designs, and service operability. You will lead on overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects, and tasks.
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.
Person specification
Main Responsibilities
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
Leading teams and departments in the design, implementation, transition, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services.
Providing operational feedback to technical architects to ensure their designs are meeting the needs of the infrastructure engineers.
Providing support to make sure that solutions and services are designed with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats.
Ensuring that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate problems, coordinating teams to investigate problems, implement solutions and establish preventative measures.
Establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle and ensure that engineers adhere to this. Managing resources to ensure that the systems integration function works effectively.
Defining and helping shape engineering best practices and standards.
Apply and continually develop strong technical expertise within computer science or a related computing field, keeping your knowledge current through ongoing professional development.
You may be responsible for the operational relationships with suppliers, ensuring services and products are delivered and aligned to industry best practice, regulatory and contractual requirements.
Leading infrastructure teams, you oversee the building, managing, supporting, and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy and strategy. You will work with technical architects, ensuring continuous improvement to the service catalogue, future designs, and service operability. You will lead on overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects, and tasks.
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.
Person specification
Main Responsibilities
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
Leading teams and departments in the design, implementation, transition, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services.
Providing operational feedback to technical architects to ensure their designs are meeting the needs of the infrastructure engineers.
Providing support to make sure that solutions and services are designed with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats.
Ensuring that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate problems, coordinating teams to investigate problems, implement solutions and establish preventative measures.
Establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle and ensure that engineers adhere to this. Managing resources to ensure that the systems integration function works effectively.
Defining and helping shape engineering best practices and standards.
Apply and continually develop strong technical expertise within computer science or a related computing field, keeping your knowledge current through ongoing professional development.