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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
The National Archives
- Kew, England, United Kingdom
- Kew, England, United Kingdom
About
In our strategic vision: Archives for Everyone, we set ourselves the challenge of becoming the 21st Century national archive - a different kind of cultural and heritage institution: Inclusive, Entrepreneurial, Disruptive. We won’t become this overnight. It will take time, focus, effort and daring.
That’s where you come in. Because we can’t do this without you.
Job Overview
Salary: £42,000 plus £2998 Market Supplement
Contract type: Permanent
Band: E / Higher Executive Officer
Closing date: Wednesday 11th February 2026
We are looking for a motivated and creative individual, with hands-on experience in developing and managing cloud infrastructure. You will be part of a creative, motivated and supportive multi-disciplinary team delivering user-focused products for diverse audiences.
We are the official archive for the UK Government and for England and Wales, holding millions of records dating back over 1,000 years. From the Domesday and Shakespeare’s will to military service records, censuses and court judgements we preserve and provide access to these important public records for everyone.
Our Digital Services department is made up of several agile multi-disciplinary teams focusing on different products or services. Our purpose is to design and deliver user-centred services that make our collections accessible, usable, and relevant to a wide range of audiences.
Our Digital Services team build and run services used by over 1 million people a month to access more than 30 million record descriptions, the catalogues of more than 3,000 archives and educational and rich, interpretative content bringing the collection to life. This is an especially exciting time as we redevelop our digital offer. We are exploring new approaches and tools, simplifying key transactions and finding new ways to help people to use our collections.
Our Cloud Infrastructure Engineer has a vital role to play in this.
This is a full-time post, but requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, always taking into account the operational needs of the Department.
A combination of onsite and home working is available and applicants should be able to regularly travel to our Kew site for a minimum of 60% of their work time.
Application Process:
You will be required to enter your work history details and provide an answer to the following sift question:
Describe a time when you encountered a significant technical issue in a CI/CD pipeline or cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Docker). What steps did you take to identify the root cause and resolve the problem? Please explain in detail your troubleshooting process, the tools you used (such as Ansible, Terraform, or monitoring solutions), and how you ensured the issue would not recur. What did you learn from the experience?"
Your answer should include detailed examples of how you meet the first three essential criteria listed below
Essential criteria:
1. Professional experience in DevOps, Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipeline development.
2. Strong, practical experience in automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
3. Experience deploying and maintaining containerised applications using Kubernetes or Docker.
4. Good demonstrable knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS and Lambda.
5. Experience in CI/CD pipeline development using GitHub Actions.
6. Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
7. Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
8. Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Interview: Interviews will be held on-site, including a technical test. All of the above criteria will be assessed at this stage
Job Description
Working as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at The National Archives you will:
Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
Work with development teams in a multidisciplinary, user centred, agile environment, to implement automation and best practices for cloud-based solutions using AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS and Lambda.
Design, build and deploy containerised applications on Kubernetes and maintain the Kubernetes cluster.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, deployment and security, investigating problems, owning issues, working with the team and independently, using the relevant tools and services.
Continuously evaluate and recommend improvements to automation, processes and tools.
Manage your own workload to produce a high standard of work within delivery cycles or against project goals.
Maintain a keen interest in relevant digital, data and technology to promote the adoption of beneficial standards and practices.
The role communicates within the Platform team and multi-disciplinary teams within Digital Services, and across the directorate, including IT.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is
found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service
D&I Strategy .
Benefits
Generous benefits package, including pension, sports and social club facilities, onsite gym, discounted rates at our on-site cafe and opportunities for training and development. Annual leave entitlement of 22 days per calendar year (rising to 25 after the first year, and incrementally to 30 days after six years) and 10½ days public and privilege holidays per annum.
Any move to The National Archives from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/ ( opens in new window)
Reasonable adjustments
If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
Contact The National Archives via careers@nationalarchives.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
Complete the ‘Reasonable Adjustments’ section of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks (opens in new window)
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles . (opens in new window)
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative . (opens in new window)
Contact point for applicants:
Name: The National Archives Recruitment Team
Email: careers@nationalarchives.gov.uk
Further information
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact The National Archives via email: careers@nationalarchives.gov.uk If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission at https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/recruitment-complaints/ (opens in new window)
Languages
- English
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