At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and innovate in cloud technologies to deliver secure and scalable infrastructure solutions.
- Company: Join the Department for Transport's Digital, Information and Security Directorate.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, generous pension contributions, and flexible working options.
- Other info: Exciting career growth opportunities in a dynamic and supportive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on critical operations while shaping the future of infrastructure services.
- Qualifications: Deep technical expertise in cloud technologies and strong leadership skills required.
The predicted salary is between 57515 - 57515 £ per year.
Are you passionate about cloud technologies and modern infrastructure? Can you use cloud technologies to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions? Do you have the technical expertise to work across Linux, virtualisation, and automation technologies? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
This is an exciting time to join the Digital, Information and Security Directorate within the Department for Transport as we restructure our directorate to ensure we are ready for future challenges, building a more sustainable, skilled and in-house capability. Lead, influence and innovate. This is a rare opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with strategic leadership, working with senior stakeholders to shape cloud and infrastructure services used across the wider DfT Group.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Digital, Information and Security Directorate at a time of significant transformation. As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across a diverse technology landscape, helping to deliver secure, resilient and scalable cloud and infrastructure services that support critical departmental operations.
Working with technologies including Microsoft 365, Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Power Platform, you will lead specialist teams, drive the adoption of best practices, and help define the future direction of our infrastructure services. You will work closely with architects, engineers, suppliers and senior stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes and influencing strategic decisions.
You will be responsible for supporting the design, implementation and operation of cloud-based solutions, championing innovation, improving service performance and ensuring infrastructure remains secure, compliant and fit for the future. Alongside your technical responsibilities, you will help develop team capability, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and contribute to delivering the technology foundations that enable digital transformation across the wider DfT Group.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Interact with senior stakeholders across departments and will reach and influence a wide range of people across larger teams and communities.
- Having the ability to present highly technical information in a confident, clear, concise direct manner to a less technical audience.
- Working with technical architects to translate the architectural designs into operations and support technical architects in operationalising the design and provide strategic advice on use of cloud services across agreed platforms.
- Leading and directing infrastructure specialist teams in building, managing, supporting and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy.
- Leading by example with your technical expertise in Office 365, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure.
- Defining best practices for implementing, supporting and maintaining cloud services, ensuring that these best practices are adopted and followed by own team, and other teams within Digital, Information and Security Directorate.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
This post is a reserved post and is open only to UK nationals. The role is part of the Government Digital and Data Profession and utilises an enhanced Capability–Based Pay Framework which provides access to a Digital and Data allowance. The base pay is £57,515. In addition to this the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £24,915. The value of allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated through the selection process.
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