Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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475966 Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Apply before 11:55 pm on Thursday 10th September 2026
📍 Location: Fareham, Southampton (This role is suitable for hybrid working)
💷 Salary: £44,241
This role comes with a DDaT Allowance of up to £14,756 p.a and £3,000 p.a On-Call Allowance.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
🕘️ Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
🏆️ Available Positions: 1
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to provide technical guidance, governance and assurance across the organisation’s server, hosting and platform infrastructure. Internally, the role is named Lead IT Systems Engineer – Infrastructure. Working within the IT Support function, you will help ensure core IT services remain secure, resilient, stable and aligned to business needs. This is an opportunity to work closely with managed service providers, technical teams and internal users to support critical systems used across the MCA. You will oversee infrastructure operations, support incident and problem resolution, contribute to project delivery and drive continual improvement across on-premises and cloud-based environments.
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will provide technical oversight of MCA’s server and hosting infrastructure, ensuring services delivered through the Managed Service Provider are maintained, monitored, patched and operated effectively. You will act as a senior escalation point for infrastructure support, contribute to project delivery and help ensure MCA systems remain secure, available and performing to expected standards.
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Top Responsibilities
- Providing technical leadership and oversight for MCA server, hosting, storage, backup and disaster recovery infrastructure.
- Working with the Managed Service Provider to assure infrastructure maintenance, monitoring, patching, capacity management and lifecycle planning.
- Acting as a senior escalation point for infrastructure incidents, problems and service requests, ensuring support is delivered within agreed targets.
- Leading, advising and coaching IT colleagues, supporting knowledge sharing and shift-left activity across support teams.
- Working with technical architects to translate infrastructure designs into effective operational services.
For more information on the role and responsibilities please see the full job advert on CS Jobs using the link provided.
Benefits
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
- 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
- Access to the staff discount portal.
- Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
- Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.
- 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.


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About You
To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
- Experience operating within a technical IT Support environment
- Line management experience overseeing performance management targets within an IT support environment
- Experience using and supporting diverse IT systems, including Microsoft 365 suite, Microsoft Azure, Active Directory & EntraID & Microsoft Server infrastructure, including networking elements.
- Experience working with third party vendors.
- Comfortable with project management techniques.
- Understanding of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Principles.
- The eligibility to obtain UK Security Clearance.
How to Apply
👉 Read the full description and apply here
This vacancy closes at 23:55 on Thursday 10th September 2026
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