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Age UK is recruiting for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with significant DevOps, Scripting and Azure experience to design, automate, and optimise our cloud-based infrastructure on a permanent basis. You'll build modern Azure solutions, automate processes using PowerShell, C#, Azure DevOps, Git, Bicep and ensure our cloud environment is secure, scalable, and efficient. You'll manage and enhance key platforms including Azure, Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and Microsoft Entra, while overseeing monitoring, performance, and lifecycle management. You'll also strengthen security through proactive vulnerability management, automated remediation and robust backup strategies, supported by strong networking knowledge. This collaborative role involves working closely with teams across the business, supporting day-to-day operations, and maintaining clear technical documentation. If you're passionate about cloud engineering and automation, this is a great opportunity to make a real impact. This is a hybrid opportunity, a blend of homebased and office working. Our linked office for this role is in London (near Tower Hill). You will be expected to attend the office once a fortnight. Travel costs to the London office are not covered by the charity. Age UK internal grade - 5LT Closing date for applications 20th April, 2026. Must haves: The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process: Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P Experience Azure DevOps experience including pipeline creation, management, optimization, and release. (A, I) Infrastructure as Code experience deploying and managing Azure infrastructure programmatically through automation (Bicep, Terraform, or ARM templates). (A, I) In-depth experience with Microsoft Azure, with emphasis on automation and scripting. (A, I) Proven experience deploying and managing IaaS and PaaS workloads on Microsoft Azure. (I) Experience in effectively addressing vulnerabilities. (I) Skills and knowledge Advanced scripting skills (preferably PowerShell and C#) with demonstrated ability to build complex automation solutions. (A, I) Ability to architect and implement solutions across the Azure platform (App Services, Functions, Storage, Networking, Virtual Machines, etc.) (A, I) Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and make independent decisions, as well as effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams. (I) Proficiency with Git source control and workflows. (I) Understanding of IaaS/PaaS/SaaS approaches to infrastructure and their trade-offs. (I) Understanding of IT security principles. (I) Understanding of common networking concepts and protocols. (I) Personal attributes Strong communication skills, verbal and written. (I) Great to haves: The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process: Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P Experience Experience with container technologies (Docker, Azure Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service) (I) Linux management experience (I) Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Application Insights, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor). (I) Skills and knowledge Understanding of the product lifecycle, from inception to decommissioning. (I) C# development skills for custom tooling, Azure Functions, and automation utilities. (I) Personal attributes Relevant Microsoft Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305, or AZ-400). (I) What we offer in return Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, Health cashback plan and EAP Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free Blue Light Card Scheme You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250 Many additional benefits Additional Information Supporting statements and anonymisation Candidates are expected to provide a supporting statement that explains how they meet the competencies annotated with an 'A' in the job description, to assess suitability for the position. Age UK acknowledges and accepts that AI may be used to support the application; we do expect candidates to personalise experience, knowledge and skills and failure to do so, may result in your application being rejected. Please submit a Word version of your CV as it will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role. Our system is unable to anonymise supporting statements and heavily formatted CVs. Please could you remove any personal information including your name before you upload to support our inclusive recruitment process. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us if invited for interview. Equal opportunities & Disability Confident Scheme Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. Age UK is a Disability Confident Scheme employer. Due to high numbers of applications received, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job. Reasonable adjustments Disabled job seekers can access reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All requests for reasonable adjustments are considered on a case-by-case basis, in collaboration with the disabled job seeker to best meet their needs, by contacting the Recruitment Team. Disability disclosures will be kept confidential and only shared on a need-to-know basis to support the implementation of adjustments. Disclosures will not be used to inform hiring decisions. Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment. Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time. Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. For a full list of benefits please visit our website.

Role : Azure Architect-Linux with Active SC Clearance Location: London, UK(2 days in a week from office, Hybrid) Job type: 6 Months contract with possible extension Job Details: 12+ years of IT experience and minimum of 5+ years of experience on Azure Infra, Azure Migrate, Azure Networking mainly Azure IaaS/PaaS, DC, Cloud, Security, SIAM and Data/Storage areas Azure Key Vault, Azure IAM. Should have worked with the team size of above 5 Infra, technically guided, managed and governed the team. Primary skills: Expertise in On-prem/Public cloud Infra assessments using Azure Migrate Driving the cloud Solutioning Azure activities for large complex migration Ensure that the proposed solution covers Azure strategy, stakeholder management as well as the actual solution covering Business, Application and Infrastructure as well as commercial aspects (in terms of value for money and not commercial costing etc.) Working experience with various industry domains like banking, healthcare, Insurance Understanding customer Infra landscape. Design and build Azure Landing Zone activities. Clear understanding of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and ROI (Return on Investment). Provide the Azure target architecture and its BoM pricing and licensing related details. Azure Target Solutions architect Diagram (all Azure services ) including HLD & LLD . Migrating on premise workloads to Azure using Azure Migrate. Troubleshooting experience with Azure & Linux environments (Processor, networking, clusters, IO, memory etc. related issues) Define & realize end-to-end solution architecture addressing business processes, specifications in a domain regulation in a domain, quality attributes of a system and economy of solution. Strong knowledge on Linux Manage storage devices, logical volumes, and file systems, Install & update software packages. Strong knowledge in Upgrading / migrating Linux Servers to later versions. Strong Knowledge with Backup and restoration of Servers. Hands-on experience in restoring OS and Data files from backup. Hands on experience in Control services and daemons: manage services and the boot-up process. Hands on experience in Manage networking: Configure and troubleshoot networking on Linux systems. Hands on experience in configure link aggregation and bridging: Configure and troubleshoot advanced network interface functionality including bonding, teaming, and local software bridges. Hands on experience in managing DNS for servers: DNS records for systems and configure secure DNS caching. Hands on experience in configure and troubleshoot email delivery: Send Mail, Postfix Hands on experience in Provide file-based storage: Provide NFS exports and SMB file shares to specific systems and users. Hands-on experience in Apache HTTPD web service: Configure Apache HTTPD to provide Transport Layer Security (TLS)-enabled websites and virtual hosts. Hands on experience in Execute shell scripting and automation techniques. Optimize web server traffic: Improve performance of your web servers by using Varnish to cache static content being served and HAProxy to terminate TLS connections and balance load between servers. Tune system performance: Improve system performance by setting tuning parameters and adjusting scheduling priority of processes. Ability to provide guidance to other engineers. Ability to complete root-cause analysis on complex issues. High-end troubleshooting complex issues. Strong understanding of security within a UNIX environment. Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Contents Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information Location Belfast, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London About the job Summary Join a team at the heart of the global economy! We create digital services, data tools and technology for businesses to prosper around the world. Have a look at our video ! Our Digital, Data and Technology team develops and operates tools, services, and platforms that enable the UK government to provide world leading support to businesses in the UK and overseas. Youll get to constantly push boundaries in an environment free of heavy legacy, driven by curiosity, social purpose, diversity of thought, entrepreneurship, and the aspiration to offer an incredible experience to all our users. Find out more on our blog, Digital Trade. Job description As our Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will lead a team of site reliability engineers who are committed to delivering excellent services and continual improvement. You will drive adaption of best practices and be responsible for managingour platform hosting. You will influence our future hosting strategy, helping to develop the team's roadmap of work and lead the support of several services offerings including CI/CD, Account Management, Containerisation, Network Connectivity, Cloud Cost Optimisation, Service Performance and Availability. Working with development teams to create reusable components, enabling service delivery at pace, you will automate the oversight of systems at scale, covering a hybrid cloud environment, including but not limited to AWS, GovUK PaaS, & Azure. Responsibilities In your day-to-day role, you will: Set the SRE teams technical direction, working with the technology leadership team. Provide technical leadership & guidance to the SRE team through coaching and mentoring. Lead the sharing of knowledge and good practice to develop the teams capability. Identify and lead on modernization initiatives through continuous improvement. Give development teams the tools for their job, including infrastructure, APM, exception, log aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CD/CI pipelines. Collaboratively develop the future hosting strategy. Actively lead the support of service offerings (Account Management, Security, CI/CD, Automation, Containerization, Service Performance & cloud Infrastructure). Ensure security, stability, and capacity are embedded in services deployments. Champion the adoption of emerging technology to automate tasks & deployments. Solve complex issues using root cause analysis, progressing opportunities to improve reliability, security, capability of infrastructure, application, and site services. Essential Skills and Experience Youll have demonstrable skills and experience of: Team leadership: managing workload, coaching, and mentoring technical staff. Setting the direction for technical teams, and liaising with colleagues to establish requirements and identify, propose, initiate work. Identifying good practices, sharing experiences, and championing your team's agenda, acting as the voice of the team. Working with cloud technology and the use of orchestration tools, developing infrastructure as code on top of cloud computing services. Deploying & managing CI/CD pipelines. Identification of process optimization opportunities and leading teams to deliver service improvements. Experience of information security, designing, quality-reviewing and quality-assurance solutions with security controls embedded. Designing and reviewing systems, selecting appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively. Benefits Learning and development tailored to your role An environment with flexible working options A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27% Things you need to know Security Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check . See our vetting charter . People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks. Selection process details We are closely monitoring the situation regarding the coronavirus, and will be following central Government advice as it is issued. There is therefore a risk that recruitment to this post may be subject to change at short notice. In addition, where appropriate, you may be invited to attend a video interview. Please continue to follow the application process as normal and ensure that you check your emails regularly as all updates from us will be sent to you this way. Assessment and Interview As part of the application process you will be asked to upload a CV which outlines your experience, skills and fit for the role. At the sift stage for this role, Inspire People will assess you against the essential criteria listed above to compile a long list of applications. If you are progressed through to this stage, you will be asked to complete a short, pre-recorded video interview with Inspire People or provide written answers to questions. These applications will then be sifted by DIT hiring managers. Initial sifting will take place the week commencing 26th September, with CV submissions to DIT on the 30th September. Interviews will take place the week commencing 10th October. Please note that these dates are indicative and may be subject to change. At the interview stage for this role, we will assess your technical/specialist experience, outlined in the above role description, testing your ability through relevant assessments/presentations and ask you questions around Behaviours and Technical skills, which are part of the Civil Service Success Profiles . The technical element within the interview, where you will be asked a series of questions to demonstrate your specific professional skills and knowledge related directly to the job role and context, will assess against these Technical Skills: Availability and capacity management Information security Modern standards approach Programming and build (software engineering) Prototyping Service support Systems design Systems integration User focus You will also be assessed against the Behaviours of: Communicating and Influencing Developing Self and Others Changing and Improving Making Effective Decisions Offer Stage Appointments may be made to candidates in merit order based on location preferences. The salary we will offer is determined using interview performance. Scores at interview translate to proficiency levels and an associated salary. Once a successful candidate has a proficiency level and is part of the capability framework, they will be given opportunities to self-assess to progress through the pay scale within their grade during their time at DIT. For further explanation of proficiency levels and more information about DDaT click here. The Department for International Trade embraces and values diversity in all forms. We welcome and pride ourselves on the positive impact diversity has on the work we do, and we promote equality of opportunity throughout the organisation. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. Candidates who pass the bar at interview but are not the highest scoring will be held on a 12-month reserve list for future appointments. Candidates who are judged to be a near miss at interview may be offered a post at the grade below the one advertised. If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out. The Department for International Trade embraces and values diversity in all forms. We welcome and pride ourselves on the positive impact diversity has on the work we do, and we promote equality of opportunity throughout the organisation. Harmonised terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you. Please note the successful candidate will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of 18 months before being released for another role. Any move to the Department for International Trade from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band. Reasonable adjustment If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes. If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should contact the DDaT Recruitment team before the closing date to discuss your needs. ..... click apply for full job details