Senior Infrastructure Consultant - Cloud in Winchester

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Infrastructure Consultant to join our Cloud Operations team within IT at Hampshire County Council.

Are you looking for a challenging and diverse role working as part of a friendly, high performing and supportive team, with an opportunity to make a real difference?

Hampshire County Council is recognised as one of the top-performing local authorities in the UK. As a forward-looking local authority, we are proud to deliver high-quality public services to over a million residents, with our IT teams playing a vital role in that success. As part of our forward-thinking and nationally respected IT function, we are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Consultant to join our dynamic Cloud Operations Team.

What you’ll do:

As a Senior Infrastructure Consultant within the Cloud Operations team, you will provide technical expertise for enterprise IT solutions, ensuring they operate effectively and remain aligned with business needs, corporate strategies, and architectural standards. Your focus will be on maintaining and improving existing cloud and infrastructure services as part of BAU operations, while managing evergreen changes to keep systems secure, compliant, and up to date.

You’ll work across a broad range of technologies and act as a subject matter expert in one or more of the following areas:

• Microsoft Cloud Services
  • Microsoft 365 administration, governance, and optimisation
  • Azure services across security, authentication, Conditional Access, Application and Enterprise Application registrations, DevOps practices, CI/CD tooling, and PaaS/IaaS
  • Power Platform environment management
• Endpoint & Device Management
  • Windows 11 enterprise-scale deployment & management
  • Intune / Microsoft Endpoint Manager
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code
  • PowerShell scripting
  • Infrastructure as Code using ARM templates or Bicep
  • Automated deployments and maintaining declarative Azure configurations
• Core Infrastructure
  • Windows Server
  • Virtualisation platforms (e.g., Hyper‑V, VMware)
  • Networking

You’ll provide expert consultancy to senior management, guiding IT strategy and promoting awareness of IT policies, technologies, systems, and processes. You’ll also play a key role in mentoring and developing less experienced colleagues, offering direction, peer reviews, coaching, and support.

What we’re looking for:

We are seeking a passionate, technically skilled professional who will have a strong technical background with expertise in enterprise-scale Microsoft Cloud and Windows End User Compute technologies within a corporate setting. This is a senior role for a Cloud technology subject matter expert, where you will act as a trusted advisor to senior management, providing consultancy and guidance on IT strategies and solutions. Whether you’re ready to step up or already operating at this level, we would love to hear from you. You’ll thrive in a collaborative, high-performing environment, working alongside motivated and supportive colleagues to deliver excellence and drive innovation in public service IT.

Why join us?

Our benefits package includes details of the holiday entitlement, pension scheme, family friendly policies and interest free travel loans and discounts. We offer a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace. We have created an environment that you can look forward to being a part of, where you are empowered to be your best and a workplace built on teamwork where people can grow and develop in their roles. Hampshire County Council offers a pleasant, supportive, and collaborative working environment.

If you think you have what it takes to make a real difference in Hampshire, get in touch!

Additional Information:

This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check and Non-Police Personnel Vetting. Further information about this process will be provided to successful candidates. Candidates must have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 years for the Non-Police Personnel Vetting in order for clearance to be obtained.

Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.