Location: Croydon | Salford | Sheffield | Southport | Glasgow (hybrid)

Salary: £62,109 (National) or £66,229 Croydon

Skills allowance of up to £18,291, pending assessment

Advert Close Date: 2nd July 2026

🚀 Job summary 🚀

The Home Office processes on average 10 million emails per week. This role is a technical specialist role – leading and acting as the SME for messaging and hygiene services with additional requirements for implementing and maintaining compliance in line with Government standards utilising the M365 Purview suite. You will also be responsible for line management of infrastructure engineers.

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:

• Microsoft Purview, information protection, Data loss prevention.
• Microsoft 365 platform and associated services, e.g. Graph.
• Power Platform.
• Azure services, including Entra ID.
• AI: Copilot Studio, Azure ML Studio, Python, Github Copilot.
• Data services – including MS Fabric.

⭐ Essential Skills ⭐

• Managing and delivering enterprise email services within time, cost and quality targets. Demonstrable experience of configuration/implementation and management of Exchange on-line and on premises. (ITOP)
• Mail Hygiene – Experience of configuration, management, and customisation of mail hygiene solutions within an enterprise. (HSIN)
• Advising on future technology changes and innovations and defining best practice for network improvements and information security with a specific focus on email services. (DESN)
• Experience or knowledge of mail routing; including relay, connectors, transport, security, and hybrid. (TEST)
• Leading the technology team to adhere to good engineering principles from architecture through to development. (USUP)
• Providing leadership to the teams responsible for delivery, while building strong partnerships with diverse teams across multiple locations and technologies, including compliance and cyber to support the integrity of our email services. (OFCL)

Why work for us...🤩

Find out more information at: Benefits - Home Office Careers, but some of the primary ones are:

• A Civil Service Pension with employer contribution rates of £17,992 annually
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
• 8 days of public holidays, plus 1 additional privilege day.
• Flexi-time allowance and flexible working options

Plus so much MORE: https://careers.homeoffice.gov.uk/benefits

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