Job summary

This position is for the role of Technical Lead within the Cloud Infrastructure and Tooling team, in the Data Services and Analytics portfolio of DDaT.

The team are multi-disciplinary and act as enablement for a large portfolio to function. You would help manage a complex, public cloud-based infrastructure, ensuring the team manage the lifecycle of all resources, via Infrastructure as Code.

You would manage staff with varied skills and at various stages of their careers, ensuring that the business’s needs are aligned with the work of the team, whilst helping staff improve their Continuous Professional Development.

Job description

A Lead Infrastructure Engineer assumes responsibility for managing third party provision of infrastructure services and the provision of expertise to deliver architectural solutions for infrastructure services throughout the service lifecycle.

You will oversee programmes and projects and work with Technical Architects to translate the architectural designs into operations and support technical architects in operationalising the designs.

You will lead and direct infrastructure teams in building, managing, transitioning, supporting and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy and ensure a feedback loop exists with service support to ensure continuous improvement. You are responsible for overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects and tasks.

Tools and Technologies we use:

We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:

• Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python
• Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular
• Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra
• DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Git, Bash

What you will do

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• leading teams and departments in the implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services
• reviewing systems designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, integration of multiple systems and technology and that ‘Secure by Design’ principles have been followed
• managing planning of system and/or acceptance tests, coordinating both functional and non-functional specifications and provide authoritative advice and guidance on test planning
• troubleshooting and identifying problems across different technology capabilities including compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, cloud, commercial off the shelf (COTS) and open source
• establishing standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle and ensure that practitioners adhere to this. You will manage resources to ensure that the systems integration function works effectively
• after a solution has been integrated, you will evaluate the success of the project, identifying best practices and lessons learned. You will provide feedback to teams and incorporate this information into future plans
• managing, coaching and mentoring more junior infrastructure engineers

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.

Essential criteria

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, you will have experience of:

• managing and delivering complex technologies within time, cost and quality targets (Lead essential criteria)
• leading the technology team to adhere to good engineering principles from architecture through to development
• providing leadership to the teams responsible for delivery of the service through effective direction and coaching
• different methodologies including Agile, waterfall and continuous integration principles
• building strong partnerships with diverse teams across multiple locations and technologies
• advising on future technology changes and innovations and defining best practice for network improvements and information security