If you’re passionate about building scalable platforms, driving DevOps culture, and leading teams to deliver faster and smarter, this is your chance to do it at national scale.

Join Companies House and play a key role in powering the infrastructure behind essential UK services. You’ll help teams deploy with confidence, improve reliability, and continuously evolve how digital services are delivered.

About the role

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Platform/DevOps), you’ll lead the design, build and continuous improvement of platform infrastructure across Companies House. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll shape how infrastructure is delivered, embed DevOps best practice, and support teams to build and run services reliably at scale.

You’ll work closely with engineers, architects and stakeholders to create robust, secure and scalable solutions, while leading technical workstreams and supporting colleagues across the organisation. Flexible working is at the heart of this role, with remote options available across the UK and a strong focus on work-life balance.

What you’ll be doing

Lead the delivery of platform infrastructure and tooling to support continuous delivery
Build, maintain and improve cloud-based infrastructure and services
Work closely with delivery teams to support environments, configurations and CI/CD pipelines
Turn technical designs into practical, scalable solutions alongside architects and stakeholders
Develop and manage infrastructure as code and automated deployment pipelines
Drive best practice across DevOps, improving reliability, performance and security
Support and mentor engineers, helping solve complex technical challenges
Lead technical workstreams and ensure alignment with organisational goals
Identify and explore emerging technologies to continuously improve services
Contribute to a strong, collaborative engineering culture

Candidate profile

What we’re looking for

Expert knowledge in:

Terraform and cloud technologies (ideally AWS)
CI/CD tooling (e.g. Concourse)

Strong experience in:

GitHub (version control)
Containerisation (Docker)
Unix/Linux environments

You may also bring experience in:

DevOps programming (Java, NodeJS, Python)
Cloud security and DevSecOps practices (IAM, encryption, MFA, compliance)
Testing infrastructure and frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Playwright, BrowserStack)

Working environment

Location: Remote working (anywhere in the UK)

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London, England, United Kingdom

> 1000 employees

Corporate / Direct Employer

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