Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Platform/DevOps)

We are looking for an enthusiastic Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Platform/DevOps) with great leadership and technical skills and a drive to improve. This role is a unique opportunity as you will be part of a team delivering Platform Infrastructure and systems to the highest standards and implementing the DevOps culture and principles across the business.

Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work-life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.

Please note: Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. Security Clearance is an essential requirement for this campaign. You'll need to have been in the UK for at least 3 out of the last 5 years to be eligible to apply for SC. The team for this role is based in our Cardiff office, and a hybrid employment contract will be provided as the standard offering. However, remote contracts may be considered as an exception whereby commuting to the office location of your team is not reasonably practicable. We're able to consider full-time, part-time and compressed hours for this role for the successful candidate (part-time and compressed options would be a minimum of 30 hours over 4 or 5 days).

The position will be focussed on building and maintaining Infrastructure to enable the organisation to deliver rapidly and reliably deploy and innovate for our customers. A Lead Infrastructure Engineer will work with our development teams, ensuring work is delivered to the standards set out in our best practice guides. The role requires the candidate to lead on various streams of work and provide technical support to Infrastructure engineers across the organisation.

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, the candidate must perform at the level defined within the DDaT Capability Framework. You may be required to undertake line management responsibilities in this position: this will be discussed with the successful candidate. Management experience is not essential as training can be provided.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for delivering the infrastructure and tooling to support a continuous delivery approach within Companies House.
• You will be user and service focused ensuring that value is delivered through improvement and automation of platform services.
• Working in a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers, a Lead Infrastructure Engineer builds, administers, supports, and maintains solutions as directed and according to departmental policy.
• Most of the time will be spent working with the delivery teams on carrying out the infrastructure work on development projects. This will include answering any queries regarding environment, configuration, and CI/CD processes.
• At this role level, you will:
• Ensure services are integrated, delivered, and operated as required.
• Work with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations.
• Design and develop infrastructure as code, source code repositories, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines to execute change on Cloud environments.
• Lead and support colleagues in non-functional requirements, ensuring availability, security, capacity, and performance for the platform and/or service.
• Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery.
• Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable, and universally available.
• Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems.
• Ensuring best practice guides are maintained and adhered to.
• Ensure that integration is controlled, maintained and managed through IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud solutions.
• Work with stakeholders to deliver and configure solutions via multiple cloud estate providers.
• Lead on technical workstreams, ensuring delivery aligns with organisational goals and best practices.
• Carry out horizon scanning and impact assessments to identify emerging trends and technologies, evaluating their potential influence on our services.

Person specification

We are looking for the following experience, which will be assessed at sift and at interview. Expert knowledge in:

• Terraform and Cloud technologies (preferably AWS)
• CI/CD tools (e.g., Concourse)

Strong practical experience in:

• GitHub (source control and versioning)
• Containerisation (Docker)
• Unix/Linux

Working knowledge of:

• Ansible
• Packer

Specialist skills:

• DevOps: Programming languages such as Java, NodeJS, and Python
• DevSecOps: Cloud security principles and disaster recovery (e.g., AWS Control Tower, IAM solutions, encryption, MFA, governance and compliance ISO 27017, DRaaS)
• Testing Infrastructure: Testing principles and frameworks (e.g., Selenium/Java, Playwright/TypeScript, BrowserStack, Karate DSL)

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Terraform & Cloud Provider Technology Understanding
• Containerisation (Docker)
• CI/CD Tooling and Principles

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £53,540, Companies House contributes £15,510 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we're committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.

We celebrate diversity. As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring we're representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfil our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We also welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

We are proud to be a disability confident leader. Our recruitment process is fully inclusive and we can make adjustments as needed through our process. These could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments and receiving interview questions in advance, to name a few.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at application stage, or if you'd like to discuss any person-centred adjustments, please contact us by emailing.

We are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work which provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. The degree of choice you have will depend on your role and your day-to-day work activities. Your manager will agree regular patterns of attendance with you; however, you may be required to make yourself available to attend the office more frequently when required to meet business needs.