About Scrumconnect Consulting
Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy whose work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. We deliver impactful technology solutions across UK government departments, working at the forefront of user-centred design, agile delivery, and scalable digital services that genuinely make a difference.
Location: Swansea; 60% on-site presence required
Working Pattern: Full-time, 3 days per week
Visa sponsorship available for eligible candidates
Strong focus on work-life balance with a flexible hybrid model (3 days onsite)
Be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary agile environment alongside civil servants and industry experts
About the Role
As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, build, manage, and support the critical infrastructure services that underpin internal operations and high-volume, public-facing digital services. Operating as a core member of a blended agile squad, you will play a pivotal role in enabling agile delivery teams through secure-by-design principles, modernising legacy estates, and supporting cloud adoption on AWS.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate secure-by-design cloud and platform services on AWS, supporting microservices and serverless workloads for high-volume digital services.
Enable delivery teams to build and run Java Spring Boot back-end services and serverless applications, integrated with Ruby on Rails and React front-ends.
Support the migration from legacy technologies (including AIX, Oracle, and Natural/Adabas) to strategic, API-led architectures, ensuring continuity of service while improving resilience and performance.
Establish and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, infrastructure as code, release orchestration, and automated testing to accelerate delivery while maintaining governance.
Implement engineering guardrails, least-privilege identity and access management (IAM), tagging strategies, and observability frameworks to proactively monitor and reduce the mean time to detect and resolve issues.
Work collaboratively with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations, ensuring systems are integrated, delivered, and operated as required
Troubleshoot and identify problems across different technology capabilities, breaking problems down into component parts to diagnose root causes.
Essential Skills & Experience
Extensive experience delivering secure, scalable cloud and platform services within large-scale government or enterprise environments.
Practitioner-level capability in IT Infrastructure, Systems Design, Systems Integration, and Troubleshooting, as defined by the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework.
Proven expertise in AWS cloud-native architectures, including compute, storage, networking, and identity management.
Strong track record in Infrastructure as Code and configuration tools (such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Ansible) and CI/CD automation.
Demonstrable experience working to the GDS Service Standard, the Technology Code of Practice, and secure-by-design principles.
Experience operating effectively within blended, multi-supplier agile squads, demonstrating strong collaboration and knowledge-transfer skills.
Eligibility for BPSS clearance, with the readiness and eligibility to obtain SC clearance required for production environment access.
Desirable Skills & Experience
Experience supporting digital transformation programmes that involve legacy modernisation, such as mainframe-adjacent systems, AIX, Oracle, Natural, and Adabas.
Relevant industry certifications (for example, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, ITIL Foundation, CompTIA Security+).
Experience integrating with cross-government platforms, such as GOV.UK One Login, GOV.UK Wallet, GOV.UK Pay, and GOV.UK Notify.
Technical Stack Context
Backend: Java SpringBoot.
Serverless: AWS Lambda / Node.js (Serverless Framework).
Front-end: Ruby on Rails / React.
Legacy: Java, AIX, Oracle, Natural and Adabas.
Cloud Infrastructure: Primary focus on AWS.
Working Environment
Client processes about 100 million transactions annually, with 84% handled digitally and manages nearly 5 billion digital interactions per year. The successful candidate will be embedded in a blended squad working in a scaled agile environment aligned to the GDS Service Standard and the Technology Code of Practice.
Please refer to https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/infrastructure-engineer for more clarifications on the role and depth of skills.
What we offer
Competitive salary with annual review
Company pension scheme
Generous annual leave entitlement
Critical illness cover
Relocation support of £3,000 – £5,000
Visa sponsorship for eligible candidates
Access to learning and development resources
A supportive, inclusive working environment
Our interview process
We keep things straightforward. Following an initial CV review, successful candidates will be invited to a short screening call with our recruitment team, followed by a two-stage process comprising a technical assessment and a values-based interview with the hiring team. We aim to move quickly and will keep you informed at every stage.
Equal Opportunities
Scrumconnect Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and welcome applications from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.
How to Apply
Please submit your CV to (see below) or apply directly through this listing. For an informal conversation about the role, contact Jaswanth at [email protected].
About Scrumconnect Consulting
Scrumconnect creates next-generation digital services through an award-winning blend of design, engineering, and artificial intelligence expertise. We specialise in modern software development, data solutions, testing, and strategic design to enable faster delivery, better user experiences, and lower operational costs across the public sector.
Our delivery approach is driven by our core values: collaboration, creating value early, integrity, and commitment. We believe we are stronger together, tackling complex problems as one unified team to build intelligent, secure, and scalable platforms. With a proven track record of transforming critical digital services for major government departments including the DVLA, DWP, and HM Courts and Tribunals Service, we focus on turning information into insight, automating complexity, and delivering measurable impact for citizens.
