Principal Infrastructure Engineer - Data Centre Platform Services

⏰ Application Deadline: Thursday 6th February 2025 at 23:55pm

Are you a passionate, accomplished technical leader, who thrives when developing strategy and engineering roadmaps to implement innovative technologies?

This role requires a strategic and collaborative mindset. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams, suppliers, and third-party providers to ensure our infrastructure is designed and implemented with security, reliability, and performance at its core. By embedding Secure by Design principles, you will safeguard our operations, data, and resources while ensuring seamless integration across digital programs.

👀 What will you be doing? 👀

You will lead and direct infrastructure teams and suppliers in building, managing, supporting and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy and strategy. You will work with technical architects to ensure there is 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.

🚀 Your skills for this role 🚀

As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer, you will have experience of:

• delivering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) in an enterprise environment using some of the following technologies

• virtualisation, Private Cloud and container-based platforms including Kubernetes and Docker, and backup

• different methodologies including Agile, waterfall and continuous integration principles

• the key engineering principles and standards, and the ability to inspire others to follow these

• managing and delivering complex technologies within time, cost and quality targets

• ensuring all solutions are robust, resilient and appropriately implemented, secured, tested and documented

• building strong partnerships with diverse teams across multiple locations and technologies

• advising on future technology changes and innovations and define best practice for network improvements and information security.

• suppliers and contract 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).

• Inclusion and recognition: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.

Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers

Please note: This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you must typically have been resident in the UK for at least five years.

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