Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Overview of the Senior Infrastructure Engineer role at UK Home Office. Salary: £46,062 plus up to £11,338 skills allowance (pending assessment). Location: Manchester (hybrid with 60% office attendance). Close Date: 11:55pm Monday 12th January 2026.

Please note that this role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally require 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years. Candidates must also hold or be prepared to undergo NPPV3 clearance.

Networks and Infrastructure (N&I) within the Home Office are responsible for delivering and maintaining the core infrastructure for all the Home Office. This post sits within the existing Core Infrastructure team. The team handles a diverse range of systems, concepts, and technologies, including Windows and Linux servers, core Windows technologies (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Certificate Authority), server and service monitoring, Infrastructure as Code, immutable infrastructure, automation, serverless compute, and public cloud services across major cloud vendors. The team collaborates with other infrastructure teams and application teams to move legacy workloads to the cloud.

You will be expected to provide out of hours support, either via an on-call rota or ad hoc upon request for maintenance or incident support. A Senior Infrastructure Engineer builds, administers, transitions, supports and maintains infrastructure services throughout the service lifecycle, according to the departmental policy and Home Office strategy.

You will work in a team of Infrastructure Engineers ensuring services are integrated, delivered and operated as needed. You will work with and support third parties in providing infrastructure services and with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations. You will provide input into overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects and tasks.

Tools and technologies

• Privileged Access Management solution such as CyberArk, Beyond Trust or Delinea
• Identity and Security, Active Directory and EntraID, Semperis DSP, SSO, ADFS, AADC
• Solid Windows Server Management & Infrastructure Knowledge such as DHCP, DNS, RDS, IIS, PKI, SCCM
• SQL or .NET framework
• Solid knowledge of Cloud Technologies (AWS or Azure Cloud)
• Solid Understanding of Infrastructure Monitoring and Security Tools, such as Grafana, Dynatrace, SCOM, Splunk etc.

Main responsibilities

• Reviewing systems configuration versus the design of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, supporting the transition to live, including testing and integration activities.
• Administering and supporting multiple platforms including Cloud hosting services, ADFS, AADC and AD (both Microsoft Entra ID and on-premise AD), ensuring the integrity and security of our platforms, products and services.
• Designing, integrating, implementing and maintaining core infrastructure solutions based on user/business needs using Microsoft tooling and platforms - aligning to departmental policies and strategies.
• Maintaining and updating technical documentation.
• Initiating and monitoring actions to investigate patterns and trends to resolve problems, including consulting specialists where required. You will lead the appropriate remedy and assist with implementation of fixes as well as preventative measures.
• Act as a subject matter expert within a team of 3rd line engineers, ensuring we provide the highest level of service to our customers and stakeholders with confidence.
• Coaching and mentoring more junior infrastructure engineers, participating in their appraisal and related performance management processes.
• Input into helping shape engineering best practices and standards.
• Investigate faults in systems, processes and services, and advise on the implementation of appropriate solutions and preventative measures.

Essential skills

• Strong experience in administration and/or development using Microsoft applications or services (either on-prem or cloud).
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) provisioning, restoration, and automation, with hands-on experience in scripting and development tools such as Terraform, .NET, PowerShell, Python, AutoIT, version control software.
• Dissecting a problem into its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes, allowing problem resolution.
• Managing and delivering complex technologies within time, cost and quality targets as well as providing direction and coaching to more junior members.
• Designing and integrating solutions with a focus on seamless interoperability with other services and technologies, ensuring both technical efficiency and optimal user experience.
• An aptitude for continual self and product-development with a strong sense of ownership and drive to follow tasks through to completion.

A civil service pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%. In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements. The ability to potentially adopt flexible working options that suit your work/life balance, plus the opportunity in future to take a career break. 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service. Eight days public holidays, plus one additional privilege day. 26 weeks maternity, adoption or shared parental leave at full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, after qualifying service. Maternity and adoption support leave (also known as paternity leave) of two weeks full pay, after qualifying service. Paid leave for fostering approval processes, support when a child is substantively placed with you plus a foster to adopt policy. Support for guardians and kinship carers. Corporate membership of ‘Employers for Carers’ providing additional information and advice for carers, plus a ‘Carer’s Passport’ to discuss workplace needs and underpin supportive conversations. Time off to deal with emergencies and certain other unplanned special circumstances.

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Employment details: Seniority level: Mid-Senior level, Employment type: Full-time, Job function: Information Technology, Industries: Government Administration.