Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds

Location: Bristol; Leeds, UK; Manchester, UK; Telford; Worthing, UK; Stratford-upon-Avon CV37, UK; Reading, UK; Cardiff, UK; Edinburgh, UK; Glasgow City, Glasgow, UK; United KingdomSalary: 45,544 - 55,157 per yearEmployment: FlexibleCategory: ITPosted: Valid to: Employer: HM Revenue and CustomsJob summaryDiscover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it’s really like to work at HMRC.Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential.As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps), you will work in an Agile fast-paced environment helping to deliver and maintain database products and solutions. Already a skilled Practitioner and role model, you will ensure best practices are adhered to and guide teams on how to deliver and support quality database products.In addition, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, configuration, maintenance of critical infrastructure in the cloud and on-premise, to ensure the availability and consistent performance of our products and services within agreed service levels.At HMRC, diversity is normal here, and we are a considerate organisation that values respect for its people. We offer exceptional flexibility and work-life balance through fair hybrid working arrangements, supporting families and accommodating personal needs. Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion ensures everyone has a sense of belonging, with attention to allergies and support for neurodiversity.Your career will flourish with our clear path for advancement, extensive training and development opportunities, and chance to gain qualifications whilst progressing through grades. You will experience challenging work in our future-focused initiatives, contributing to inspiring purpose and ethical standards that make a social difference.Join us in our service-led organisation where great working conditions meet rewarding opportunities and where your technical expertise directly supports the nation's essential services.Job descriptionThe ideal candidate will have a proven track record as an Infrastructure Engineer or DevOps Engineer, and you will have experience of:Providing effective infrastructure management and support gained in very large, highly available, enterprise-class environments.Technical experience should include, but not limited to, modern delivery of Infrastructure within the cloud, security, backups and restores and on-premise to cloud migrations, with an emphasis on Infrastructure as Code (IaC).Person specificationResponsibilitiesProactively contribute to the DevOps Engineering Community of Practice by providing technical leadership and mentorship to less experienced team members.Manage Infrastructure through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems on-premise and Cloud IaaS and PaaS environments.Configure and maintain IaC, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure optimum levels of performance, availability, security, and automation.Support architects and developers to ensure design, development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.Independently analyse, tackle, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.Assist developers with complex query tuning, schema refinement and cloud migration approaches.Essential CriteriaExpertise in Terraform and AnsibleExpertise pipeline delivery of IaCExpertise level knowledge of Cloud infrastructure technologies such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, IaaS- and PaaS-based solutionsExpertise level skills in Linux OS and scriptingExpertise of DevOps practices, continuous delivery tooling (for example, Artifactory, Git, Kubernetes)Desirable CriteriaWorking knowledge of Agile deliveries, collaborative tooling and techniques, including Jira and KanbanWorking knowledge of ITIL 3 or 4 processesUnderstanding of government or public sector technology requirements Additionally, you will be expected to be included in a 24x7 on-call rota to perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.Important Security InformationSuccessful candidate should already hold or be willing to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance before taking up post. Please see Additional Security Information below.Further Location InformationPlease ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a ‘Further Location Preferences (optional)’ field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.Office closuresFor more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.These sites are:Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, TelfordYou will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.Leeds LocationMoves Adjustment