Overview
Join to apply for the Senior Infrastructure Engineer role at UK Home Office.
Location: Liverpool (hybrid with 60% office attendance)
Salary: £46,062 plus up to £11,338 skills allowance, pending assessment
Close Date: 11:55pm Monday 12th January 2026
Please note that this role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years. Candidates must also hold or be prepared to undergo NPPV3 clearance.
Team context
Networks and Infrastructure (N&I) within the Home Office are responsible for delivering and maintaining the core infrastructure for all the Home Office. This post sits within the existing Core Infrastructure team.
The team handles a diverse range of systems, concepts, and technologies, including Windows and Linux servers, core Windows technologies such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Certificate Authority. They also manage server and service monitoring, Infrastructure as Code, immutable infrastructure, automation and serverless compute as well as public cloud provided services across several major public cloud vendors. The team collaborates extensively with other traditional infrastructure teams for connectivity and services as well as application teams to move legacy workloads to the cloud.
Role responsibilities
* Builds, administers, transitions, supports and maintains infrastructure services throughout the service lifecycle, according to the departmental policy and Home Office strategy.
* Work in a team of Infrastructure Engineers ensuring services are integrated, delivered and operated as the need arises. Collaborate with third parties and with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations.
* Provide input into overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects and tasks.
* Provide out of hours support, either via an on-call rota or ad hoc upon request for maintenance or incident support.
Tools and technologies
We encourage applications from candidates who have experience in one or more of the below:
* Privileged Access Management solution such as CyberArk, Beyond Trust or Delinea
* Identity and Security, Active Directory and EntraID, Semperis DSP, SSO, ADFS, AADC
* Windows Server Management & Infrastructure (DHCP, DNS, RDS, IIS, PKI, SCCM)
* SQL or .NET framework
* Cloud technologies (AWS or Azure)
* Infrastructure Monitoring and Security Tools (Grafana, Dynatrace, SCOM, Splunk, etc.)
Essential skills
* Strong experience in administration and/or development using Microsoft applications or services (on-prem or cloud).
* Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) provisioning, restoration and automation, with hands-on scripting/development tools such as Terraform, .NET, PowerShell, Python, AutoIT, and version control software.
* Problem-solving: ability to dissect problems and identify root causes.
* Experience delivering complex technologies within time, cost and quality targets, including coaching junior members.
* Designing and integrating solutions with focus on interoperability, technical efficiency and user experience.
* Strong ownership and drive to follow tasks through to completion.
Seniority level
* Associate
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology
Industries
* Government Administration
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