Working within a small team of like-minded technical professionals, this role will play an essential part in designing, implementing, operating, and improving enterprise cloud technology services within the organisation to help meet its mission and goals—with a growing focus on quality, automation, and testing.

You will work across numerous agile multidisciplinary teams including Architecture, Software Engineering, Data, Security and Operations, playing a part in the technical and service roadmaps that enable us to deliver excellent digital services that support Government housing policy and line of business systems. While your primary focus will remain on the Homes England Cloud Hosting Service (built on MS Azure products), you will also help teams improve how services are tested, validated, and released—supporting our ambition to ‘World Class’ and deliver with greater confidence and reliability. This role combines Infrastructure, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and a strong emphasis on service quality and test automation.

We’re in the early stages of our transformation, so now is a great time to join us for this opportunity to help form what will be both a challenging and fun time to be working on these changes. You will help shape how we embed testing and automation into our cloud platform and delivery processes.

A bit about you…

Having technical knowledge is great, but being able to apply it collaboratively and practically is essential. You will work closely with colleagues within the Digital Team and across the business, helping teams understand and improve how services are tested, validated, and released. Understanding your audiences and framing problems and solutions for their understanding is a key skill.

You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders, with discussions shaped by a good understanding of commercial and operational impact. You will be able to work through ambiguity and legacy complexity, and help teams move towards more automated, secure, and reliable approaches without losing sight of operational reality.

You will have significant experience working at technical level with a proven track record of leading and delivering on infrastructure and platform-related outcomes, including the ability to articulate this in a meaningful way to stakeholders. Experience with test automation, quality assurance, or improving delivery confidence is highly valued.

You will have a good understanding of other areas within Digital such as Operations, Information Security, Software Engineering, Data and Architecture, enabling you to contribute to our methodologies and frameworks and promote good practice in testing and automation.

An innovative and collaborative approach to solving technical problems is essential, as is the ability to manage expectations and communicate technical issues and proposed solutions in a way that is meaningful to different audiences.

Skill Areas & Levels

IT Infrastructure. Design, implement, administer, and support infrastructure technologies and solutions covering compute, storage, networking, IaaS, PaaS & SaaS across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. Experience with test automation, quality assurance, or improving delivery confidence in these environments is highly valued.

Having at least MS Certified: Azure Fundamentals or equivalent experience is essential. Some of our specific technologies are: Azure DevOps, ARM Templates, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, Kubernetes, Power BI, among others within the Azure stack. Our IaC languages are Terraform & ARM.

Testing & Automation. Design and implement automated testing approaches for platform and application services, working with engineering teams to discover current manual testing activities, identify high-value scenarios for automation, and build automated checks into delivery and operational processes to improve service quality, security assurance and release confidence.

Troubleshooting and Problem Solving. You can initiate and monitor actions to logically investigate the correlation of events and trends, breaking down problems into their component parts to identify and diagnose root causes. You understand how infrastructure, application behaviour and test coverage interact in complex environments.

Systems Design. You design systems based on numerous factors such as risk, impact, complexity as well as internal governance such as strategy, standards and principles to ensure alignment and collaborative delivery. You help shape how services can be prepared for transition towards more automated, reliable and testable platforms.

Information Security. Understanding of infosec, types of security controls, standards and practices used to mitigate security threats within solutions. You apply these appropriately to reduce risk and embed security into engineering workflows.

Software Development. You understand the software development lifecycle and its part within the wider delivery of modern software services, including how application engineering, infrastructure, testing, security and release practices work together. Knowledge of both tools, technologies, standards and ways of working.

Please refer to the DDAT page for further information on skill levels https://www.gov.uk/guidance/skill-levels-for-digital-data-and-technology-roles

Who are we?

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer...

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.

Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go.

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.

We’re a diverse team of more than 1,000 professionals spanning 17 professions, helping Homes England to be effective, efficient and deliver for communities.

Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country. For more information about our EDI strategy please see our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Report 2024 to 2025 — Second Edition - GOV.UK

You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your Right to Work in the UK at this stage.

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

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