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Strategic Capability Lead (Digital Data and Technology DDaT) - for Engineering, Quality Assurance and Test (QAT) and UCD Professions at UK Home Office
A Principal Infrastructure Engineer is an accomplished technical leader. They develop the engineering road-maps for technologies and services in their area of responsibility, ensuring relevance and alignment with architectural road-maps to ensure the organisation derives maximum value from investment in technologies. They are key stakeholders for defining engineering best practice within the Home Office and inspire others to follow this.
You may own the operational relationships with suppliers ensuring services and products are delivered and aligned to industry best practice, regulatory and contractual requirements.
What will you be doing?
You will lead and direct infrastructure teams 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 road-maps, projects and tasks.
Strong experience in the following technologies:
* Azure Local (Edge computing)
* Azure Policy and Governance
* Terraform
Your skills for this role
As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer, you will have experience of:
* Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy and financial governance and security.
* Design, develop and implement efficient, highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure.
* Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging cloud native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments.
* Support cloud adoption of applications as they are being transformed and/or modernised.
* Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to address and resolve technical escalations.
* Advising on future technology changes and innovations and define best practice for network improvements and information security.
* Key engineering principles and standards, and the ability to inspire others to follow these.
* Ensuring all solutions are robust, resilient and appropriately implemented, secured, tested and documented.
* 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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Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Engineering, Information Technology, and Management
* Industries
Engineering Services, Data Infrastructure and Analytics, and IT System Design Services
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