As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer at the Home Office, you will play a pivotal role in leading the design, implementing, and ongoing operation of the Datacentre Infrastructure, Private Cloud and edge capabilities that underpin our critical systems and services. In this leadership position, you will oversee the development of robust, secure, and scalable solutions and blueprints with a focus on integrating hybrid architectures that span on-premises systems and public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure. You will lead 3 rd party suppliers in the ongoing operation of our Datacentre networks and oversee the multitude of projects that deliver new capabilities to the Home Office.
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.
A Principal Infrastructure Engineer for Data Centre Platform Services is an accomplished technical leader. You will develop the strategic and tactical engineering roadmaps for technologies and services that provide the Home Office Data Centre Platforms and Edge Technologies that are used across the estate, making sure that they are future proofed, and that the organisation derives maximum value from investment in technologies. You will define engineering best practice within the Home Office and inspire others to follow this.
You will own the operational relationships with suppliers making sure services and products are delivered and aligned to industry best practice, regulatory and contractual requirements.
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.
What you will do
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
* leading teams, departments and suppliers in the design, implementation, transition, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services
* management of supplier contracts and relationships
* providing operational feedback to technical architects to ensure their designs are meeting 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
Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.
Recruitment events
We are hosting an Engineering online recruitment event on Thursday 6th February 2025 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. Where you can find out more about our roles, working for the organisation and how to apply. Register your interest here: Home Office Events I Eventbrite
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