# EOI - Infrastructure Engineer

**Company**: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
**Location**: Manchester, Greater Manchester
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: GBP 56,582 - 69,740 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are transforming DCMS to meet the needs of a modern, delivery-focused department working on some of government’s highest-priority agendas to drive growth, enrich lives and level-up society.

As Infrastructure Engineer, you will act as a technical leader balancing strategic oversight with hands-on guidance. You will collaborate with Technical Architects to turn complex designs into live operations, manage third-party services, and direct a team of specialists to deliver critical infrastructure programmes across the service life cycle.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Manage third-party infrastructure services and provide expert technical guidance to develop architectural solutions across the product life cycle.

- Collaborate with technical architects and specialists to translate high-level designs into live, stable operational environments.

- Drive the successful execution of infrastructure programmes and projects to meet core organisational objectives.

- Direct and lead infrastructure specialist teams in building, managing, and maintaining solutions in strict accordance with departmental policies.

- Ensure internal user services and public-facing services are underpinned by infrastructure designed, built, and supported to exceptionally high standards.

- Act as a senior technical leader within IT Operations, champion engineering standards and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

- Provide regular updates to the Head of Technology Operations & Strategy regarding project progress and infrastructure stability.

**Person specification**

- Lead engineering teams to design, implement, administer, and support complex infrastructure services.

- Apply modern engineering standards and practices, ensuring consistent team adoption.

- Anticipate upcoming technology changes and advise on their operational implications.

- Take full accountability for technical issues and proactively solve problems to improve user outcomes.

- Diagnose root causes across compute, storage, network, and software, while investigating recurring trends to embed preventative actions.

**Desirable skills:**

- Extensive working knowledge of public cloud platforms, specifically Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

- Experience implementing and supporting Zero Trust access management controls across a mixed cloud estate.

- Experience overseeing the build, configuration, and support of end-user devices across a diverse range of technology vendors.

**Benefits**

Alongside your salary of £56,582, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £16,391 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. We offer a wide range of benefits, including:

- Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working

- 26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years’ service

- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

- Access to the Edenred employee benefits system

- 3 days of paid volunteering leave

- Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity and adoption leave

- Staff reward and recognition bonuses

- Occupational sick pay

- Access to the Employee Assistance Programme

## Skills

### Required
- infrastructure services
- technical leadership
- cloud platforms
- engineering standards

### Nice to have
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Zero Trust access management controls

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