AMS PSR

On behalf of Companies House, we are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer Lead Inside IR35 for a 6 month contract based remotely with ad-hoc travel to Cardiff. 

Companies House drives confidence in the economy and makes the UK a great place to start, and run, a business.

As an executive agency sponsored by The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) we have the ability to play a leading role in the right against corrupt business practices by providing the transparency and clarity necessary for the UK to continue to be regarded as a world-leading place to do business.

Companies House is undergoing an historic change – to our systems, culture, services, and ways of working. Our people are at the heart of these changes.

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (2023) gives Companies House the power to play a more significant role in disrupting economic crime and supporting economic growth.

These changes represent the biggest opportunity for Companies House in almost 170 years. This move will help us achieve the kind of culture we want – one which drives high performance and where our brilliant people can flourish.

As a Infrastructure Engineer Lead your main responsibilities will be:

• Designs, builds, manages and supports the infrastructure services that underpin all internal user services and services to the public
• Working in a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers, builds, administers, supports and maintains solutions as directed and according to departmental policy
• Ensures services are integrated, delivered and operated as required
• Work with and support third parties in providing infrastructure services
• Work with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations
• Provide input into overall management - workforce, budget, technology roadmaps, projects and tasks

Essential:

• Ansible
• Experience with Security Principles
• AWS cloud provider with experience in resource such as:
• AWS SSO
• ECR
• ECS
• EC2
• RDS
• LAMBDA
• Concourse (or any alternative CI/CD tooling)
• Docker
• Terraform

Desirable:

• Artifactory JFrog
• Elastic Search
• Grafana
• Hashicorp Vault
• Kafka
• Kibana
• Matomo
• Packer
• Perl or Python
• Prometheus
• sonarqube

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Companies House 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. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant / Commitment

Companies House guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".