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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 the 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.

What will you be doing?

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Leading teams and departments in the implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services.
• Troubleshooting and identifying problems across different technology capabilities including compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, cloud, commercial off the shelf (COTS) and open source.
• Establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle and ensure that practitioners adhere to this. You will manage resources to ensure that the systems integration function works effectively.
• Managing, coaching and mentoring more junior infrastructure engineers.

Your skills for this role

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer you will have experience of:

• Delivering management, technical and administrative services to support and maintain live applications, clearly evidence using experience from performing a similar role.
• Providing leadership to the teams responsible for delivery of the service through effective direction and coaching.
• Understanding and / or experience of adhering to service management processes and procedures.
• Leading the technology team to adhere to good engineering principles from architecture through to development.
• Using a Service Management toolset to log and update service incidents.
• Understanding of Lean, Agile and DevOps principles.

Why Join Us?

• Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.
• Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).
• Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).
• Recognition and inclusion: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.

This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you typically need to have been resident in the UK for at least three years. Unfortunately we cannot offer sponsorship.