Principal Infrastructure Engineer

A Principal Infrastructure Engineer is a technical leader, responsible for developing strategic and tactical engineering roadmaps for technologies and services, ensuring they are future proofed and maximise value of technology investments. You define engineering best practice within the Home Office and inspire others to adopt them. 

You may be responsible for the operational relationships with suppliers, ensuring services and products are delivered and aligned to industry best practice, regulatory and contractual requirements.

Leading infrastructure teams, you oversee the building, managing, supporting, and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy and strategy. You will work with technical architects, ensuring continuous improvement to the service catalogue, future designs, and service operability. You will lead on overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects, and tasks.

Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.

Main Responsibilities

Your main day to day responsibilities will be: 

• Leading teams and departments in the design, implementation, transition, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services.
• Providing operational feedback to technical architects to ensure their designs are meeting the needs of the infrastructure engineers.
• Providing support to make sure that solutions and services are designed with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats.
• Ensuring that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate problems, coordinating teams to investigate problems, implement solutions and establish preventative measures.
• Establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle and ensure that engineers adhere to this. Managing resources to ensure that the systems integration function works effectively.
• Defining and helping shape engineering best practices and standards.
• Apply and continually develop strong technical expertise within computer science or a related computing field, keeping your knowledge current through ongoing professional development.

UK residency and security requirements       

For meaningful security checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. Learn more on our website. Security Checks - Home Office Careers. 

Please note that this role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years. 

Candidates must also hold or be prepared to undergo NPPV3 clearance. 

However, in exceptional circumstances security clearance applications for candidates who have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years may be considered. Failure to meet this residency requirement will result in your security clearance application being rejected.