Technical Consultant (Infrastructure Operations)
NHS EnglandLeeds, Exeter, London, London
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with NHS England based in Leeds, Exeter, London. The advertised salary is £5,580,731 to £6,386,195. Applications close on 17 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
The post of Technical Consultant (Infrastructure Operations) has been awarded a Recruitment and Retention Premia (RRP) in response to current labour m...
Work within NHS England's multi-cloud environment, with a primary focus on Azure, collaborating with teams building and supporting our critical national services.
Helping teams to work within our guardrails to be compliant with our cloud controls.
Use your Azure knowledge and experience to discuss technical topics with highly technical product teams.
Help deliver enterprise level services to automate and streamline future cloud adoption.
Collaborate with our chosen partners who provide enterprise-level industry knowledge.
Have a keen interest and understanding in all security aspects of modern cloud deployments, using cloud-native tooling and best of breed products.
Understand the value in documentation, knowledge sharing and bringing others along for the journey.
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for external candidates.
Essential: - Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable: - Administrator level Azure Cloud Certification
Essential: - Strong technical knowledge of enterprise scale IT services, with a focus on Azure; - Understanding of cloud governance, policy and guardrails and how they are implemented at the enterprise level; - Recent experience in implementing cloud best practice controls via automation, including automated vending of environments; - Proven ability to plan, organise and prioritise own workload and effectively manage conflicting demands and expectations
Essential: - Hands-on experience working with Azure Landing Zones and Policies; - An understanding of Infrastructure services and networking within a mixed on-premises and cloud environment; - Demonstrable experience of automation and scripting with Terraform; - An understanding of Git, working with repositories and collaborating with DevOps teams
How this role compares
We hold 1,232 NHS vacancies in London that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £45,953. This role pays more than about 100% of them.
There are 11,611 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,709 of them in London.
You have 12 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 30 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
NHS England has 32 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
These figures are calculated from the vacancies GovJobs currently holds, not from official pay statistics. They are a guide to the market, not a valuation of this post.
How to apply
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