Richmond and Wandsworth Councils
Infrastructure Analyst
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Job Title: Infrastructure Analyst
Salary Range: £46,206 – £62,451 per annum
Permanent – Fulltime (36 hours per week)
Location: Wandsworth and Richmond
Are you passionate about using modern technology to make a real difference to local communities? Join Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership and play a key role in delivering innovative, reliable and secure digital services that support vital public services. You'll have the opportunity to work with modern infrastructure technologies, develop your technical expertise, and help shape services that positively impact residents every day.
About The Role
As an Infrastructure Analyst, you will play a key role in ensuring the delivery, reliability, security and continuous improvement of critical IT infrastructure services that support Richmond and Wandsworth Better Service Partnership. You will work across a diverse and evolving technology estate, helping to maintain high-quality digital services that enable essential council services to be delivered to residents and communities.
You will have the opportunity to manage and enhance modern cloud and infrastructure technologies, contribute to service improvement initiatives, and provide expert technical support within a live operational environment. Working with a high degree of technical autonomy, you will be trusted to resolve complex infrastructure issues, identify opportunities for optimisation, and contribute specialist expertise to infrastructure projects and change programmes.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced infrastructure professional who enjoys solving technical challenges, driving improvements and working with modern Microsoft technologies in a service focused environment.
What You'll Be Doing
The Infrastructure Analyst is responsible for supporting, maintaining and improving the organisation's infrastructure platforms and services. Key responsibilities include:
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- Provisioning, configuring and managing Azure cloud and private cloud infrastructure, including virtual machines, networking and storage.
- Monitoring infrastructure performance, capacity and costs, identifying risks, trends and opportunities for improvement.
- Implementing and maintaining security controls across infrastructure platforms to ensure compliance and protect critical services.
- Diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure incidents and acting as a senior technical escalation point.
- Designing, developing and maintaining automation solutions and infrastructure-as-code deployments to improve efficiency and consistency.
- Creating and maintaining accurate technical documentation, operational procedures and system configurations.
- Providing technical expertise and guidance to colleagues while contributing to service improvement and solution design activities.
- Supporting infrastructure projects and change initiatives, ensuring solutions are secure, supportable and aligned to agreed standards.
- Working collaboratively within a live service environment where priorities may change in response to incidents, security issues or operational requirements.
Essential Qualifications, Skills And Experience
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:
- Strong experience managing and supporting Microsoft Azure and cloud-based infrastructure services within a complex enterprise environment.
- Experience working with virtualisation technologies and a sound understanding of enterprise infrastructure platforms.
- Experience administering Microsoft Active Directory and supporting associated Microsoft infrastructure services.
- In-depth knowledge of cloud architecture, networking concepts and infrastructure technologies, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues.
- Experience operating with a high degree of technical autonomy in a live service environment, applying professional judgement to manage operational risks and service priorities.
- Experience delivering infrastructure improvements, automation and operational efficiencies, with the ability to contribute technical expertise to projects and service enhancement initiatives.
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Indicative Recruitment Timeline
- Closing Date: Sunday 26th July 2026.
- Shortlisting Date: W/C 27th July 2026
- Interview Date: TBC
We may close this vacancy early once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Useful Information
Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.
We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.
Richmond and Wandsworth Councils
Attached documents:
- Anonymised Application Guide for Candidates.pdf
- Infrastructure Analyst Job Profile.pdf
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