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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.

What will you be doing?

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 meet 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

Your skills for this role

As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer you will have experience of:

• Champion key engineering principles and standards, fostering a culture of technical excellence and encouraging others to adopt best practices.
• Lead the delivery of complex technology solutions, consistently meeting time, cost, and quality objectives.
• Ensure all solutions are robust, resilient, secure, thoroughly tested, and well-documented.
• Build strong, collaborative partnerships across diverse teams, technologies, and geographic locations.
• Provide strategic guidance on emerging technologies and innovations, shaping best practices for network evolution and information security.
• Demonstrate deep hands-on expertise in one or more of the following areas: AWS infrastructure, Azure infrastructure, public cloud networking, and identity and access management.

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.