Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Nuffield Health; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Epsom & Barbican | Hybrid (One office day a week) | Permanent | Full-Time

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connecting health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

We are looking for an experienced Principal Infrastructure Engineer who is passionate about technology, evolving ways of working, and developing people. In this leadership focussed role, you will provide technical direction, managerial support and mentorship to our Infrastructure Engineering Leads and their respective teams, covering hosting and identity, networks, endpoint and unified communications.

As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer, you will have previous experience working in a modern ITIL-based IT service organisation and will collaborate with Product Owners and Delivery Managers to develop and embed agile engineering practices across our Infrastructure squads. You will be an analytical thinker with experience of using data to drive action and be comfortable driving strategic engineering roadmaps. You will work closely with your Lead Engineers to define, implement, operate and evolve secure and reliable infrastructure solutions, bringing experience of managing both traditional and modern IT infrastructure across a multi-site national estate.

You will also play a key role in the design and implementation of secure and integrated healthcare solutions. Working closely and collaboratively with architects and technology partners, you will actively contribute to the architecture and technology selection of high-level solutions. You will also be responsible for guiding infrastructure engineers in translating these high-level solutions into low-level designs that cover networking solutions, hosting/cloud infrastructure, identity, data storage and security.

You should have:

1. Previous and recent experience leading and developing other engineering leaders; helping them to build and develop their teams, practices, and ways of working.
2. The ability to work collaboratively with architects, engineering leads, delivery managers and technology partners to design and implement secure and robust network and hosting infrastructure solutions.
3. Expertise in network infrastructure covering LAN, NAC, WAN, SD-SWAN, Wireless and Firewall technologies. Experience with Palo Alto, Cisco and Aruba solutions is desirable.
4. Experience in Server Infrastructure (setup, configuration and maintenance of hardware and software - Windows) and Virtualisation solutions (e.g. VMware, Nutanix).
5. Demonstrable experience working with Azure Cloud infrastructure (e.g. IaaS, PaaS and Serverless solutions). We’re currently operating in a Hybrid Cloud environment and on a journey migrating from on-prem data centres to Azure Cloud.
6. Experience with Microsoft Active Directory/Entra ID or equivalent identity and SSO solutions.
7. Deep understanding of modern operational management for infrastructure platforms, including experience in driving automation, observability, scaling, and maintaining high availability and performance of cloud-based and on-premises systems.
8. Experience working with and managing technology partners, ensuring services and deliverables meet required standards.
9. Deep knowledge of infrastructure security standards and best practices, and experience ensuring solutions comply with industry regulations.
10. A passion and track record for evolving infrastructure solutions, DevSecOps practices and engineering standards by leveraging modern engineering practices such as observability, Infrastructure/configuration-as-code, automation, auto-scaling and self-healing.

We will provide:

1. The opportunity to lead Infrastructure Engineering across Nuffield Health – recommending the technologies, tools and ways of working that we adopt to build, deploy and run our healthcare solutions.
2. Support for you to develop strategic and tactical infrastructure engineering roadmaps for technologies and services across your area of responsibility.
3. The chance to contribute to, and evolve, our technology-wide engineering standards and practices, along with the support in ensuring that these are adopted and maintained.
4. A wide variety of interesting and challenging work that spans many of our customer-facing solutions, through to managing the infrastructure that our most business-critical systems depend on.
5. The chance to further grow established teams of enthusiastic engineers from Associate to Lead level; helping them to expand their skills and develop their careers alongside your own.
6. Opportunities to learn and develop your career while staying close to your engineering roots.
7. An environment that allows you to perform at your best work, working collaboratively with like-minded colleagues who are focussed on improving the health of our nation and making a real difference to peoples’ everyday lives.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you.