Infrastructure Hosting Engineer - Health and Safety Executive - HEO

Locations: Aberdeen, Ashford (Kent), Basingstoke, Bedford, Birmingham, Bootle, Bristol, Buxton, Cardiff, Carlisle, Carmarthen, Chelmsford, Crewe, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxted, Plymouth, Sheffield, York

Why this role?

HSE is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety. The work we do protects people across the UK, from oil platforms in the North Sea to mines, quarries and industrial sites nationwide.

Technology underpins everything HSE does. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll help ensure the hosting platforms that support inspectors, analysts and staff remain secure, reliable and fit for purpose.

What you’ll be working on

You’ll join the Hosting Team within HSE’s Technology Division, supporting:

• Data centres and hosting platforms
• Servers, storage arrays, backup systems and load balancers
• Hybrid and cloud‑enabled services that support over 3,000 colleagues

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Hosting), you’ll:

• Support and maintain hosting infrastructure to meet SLAs and OLAs
• Monitor platforms, investigate incidents and resolve problems
• Deliver infrastructure upgrades and implement new functionality
• Maintain accurate configuration and asset information
• Support event, incident, problem, capacity and change management
• Ensure hosting platforms remain secure and resilient
• Engage with users to deliver a high‑quality, customer‑focused service
• Work with suppliers and internal teams to improve services
• Support or carry out line management of Hosting Team members (where required)

Who this role is for

This role could be a great fit if you:

• Have experience working in hosting or infrastructure teams
• Understand how to deliver reliable services to agreed SLAs
• Are comfortable working with virtualisation, compute and storage platforms
• Care about security, stability and customer experience
• Can balance technical work with stakeholder communication
• Enjoy working in hybrid environments with some travel

Skills & experience

You’ll need experience in:

• Delivering hosting services with strong customer focus
• Managing an industry‑recognised virtualisation hypervisor
• Managing physical compute and storage platforms
• Managing certificates for host and identity services
• Supporting secure, resilient infrastructure environments

Interested?

This partner post gives you the overview.

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