Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure EngineerLocation: Mostly remote, with occasional travel to LeedsRate: 560 per day, Inside IR35Duration: Until November 2027Central government or NHS experience essentialOverviewWe''re looking for a hands-on Infrastructure Engineer to join NHS England and work down a significant vulnerability backlog across national, mission-critical services. New findings land every week from scanners, pen tests, audits and security advisories. Your job is to fix them safely in production, prove they''re closed and keep live services running.Key ResponsibilitiesWork through the vulnerability backlog, fixing findings from scanners, pen tests, IT health checks and auditsPatch and upgrade operating systems, packages, middleware, container base images and application dependenciesFix insecure cloud configuration, including over-permissive IAM, open security groups and unencrypted resourcesKeep legacy data stores patched and contained, and support their removal as migrations completePut compensating controls in place where fixes can''t be applied straight away, and document the riskRespond quickly to critical CVEs, zero-days, NHS England cyber alerts and vendor advisoriesSupport security and service incidents hands-on, including containment, emergency changes and recoveryTest fixes in lower environments and plan rollback for every production changeDeliver changes through formal change control, including emergency changesUse and extend Terraform, Ansible and CI/CD pipelines to apply ..... full job details .....