Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Central Government

Role: Senior Infrastructure Engineer x 3 REF
Contract Length: Until 02/04/2027
Location: Cardiff (Remote possible - but will be expected to come to business every quarter)
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested

Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

You will be responsible for delivering and maintaining secure, resilient infrastructure and platform services across the client. You will champion security best practices, ensuring that systems are designed, configured, and operated to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organisational data and services. Taking a user, service, and risk-focused approach, you will drive continuous improvement and automation to strengthen security, resilience, and operational effectiveness.

Working as part of a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers, you will build, administer, support, and maintain secure and compliant solutions in line with departmental policies, security standards, and industry best practice. A significant proportion of the role will involve working with teams across the organisation to provide expert advice on secure environments, configuration management, identity and access management, infrastructure hardening, vulnerability management, monitoring, and incident response. You will help ensure that critical services remain secure, available, and resilient against evolving cyber threats.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

• Linux
• Terraform
• Docker
• AWS
• Security Principles
• Bash
• Python

We welcome all applications regardless of background, in line with our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, the client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

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