Computing Infrastructure Principal Officer

Are you the technical expert who can keep our core IT infrastructure secure, resilient, and performing at its best? This is your opportunity to provide senior technical expertise, ensuring that the systems that underpin our organisation remain secure, reliable, and ready to support the delivery of essential services.

This is an expert level technical role providing ongoing support, maintenance, and development across our compute infrastructure, ensuring it remains secure, resilient, and highly available. Working as part of a skilled technical team, you will be responsible for proactively identifying and resolving issues, implementing improvements, and ensuring systems are optimised for performance, security, and reliability.

You will also contribute to the organisation’s wider security posture through effective vulnerability management, firewall administration, and adherence to best practice in infrastructure design and operation. Working collaboratively with colleagues across IT and the wider organisation, you will help ensure that technology services are robust, secure, and aligned with organisational needs.

To apply for this role, please follow the ‘Apply Now’ button above and upload your CV and a Supporting Statement. We will be using your Supporting Statement to shortlist so please be sure to address how you meet all the criteria in the person specification, drawing on any relevant work/life experience, education, or personal interests.

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