Lead Infrastructure Specialist - Security

Salary: £70,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Degree-level qualification in Information Technology or a related discipline, or significant equivalent industry experience.
• Advanced expertise across at least three security technologies or disciplines, such as PAM, ADFS, firewalls, Entra, SIEM, EDR/XDR, CTEM, WAF/DDoS, PKI, SASE, IDS/IPS, security assurance frameworks, incident response, or cryptographic systems.
• Advanced experience assessing security controls, security posture, and prioritising risk-based improvements.
• Advanced skills in designing, engineering, and managing secure systems and infrastructure controls.
• Experience planning and leading significant infrastructure change programmes.
• Technical leadership experience within complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to analyse, articulate, and solve complex problems and make sound decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a recognised security subject matter expert, accountable for the design, implementation, and management of cyber security controls and assessment functions.
• Provide technical leadership across security engineering, cyber defence, security assurance, and incident management activities.
• Lead the continual improvement of security controls, assessment methodologies, and cyber resilience capabilities.
• Influence technical decision-making across infrastructure and security teams, ensuring solutions align with our business and technology strategies.
• Design and implement security controls to mitigate threats and vulnerabilities across infrastructure, platforms, and services.
• Work closely with architects, technical leads, suppliers, and delivery teams to deliver secure, resilient technology solutions.
• Develop capability across engineering teams through mentoring, coaching, and technical leadership.
• Support the successful delivery of operational services, infrastructure change, and technology transformation programmes.
• Champion modern engineering practices, continuous improvement, and industry best practice.
• Build strong relationships across our organisation to support secure and effective service delivery.

Technologies:

• Support
• Security
• WAF

More:

We are partnering with HM Land Registry to recruit a Lead Infrastructure Specialist - Security, a senior technical leadership role based in Plymouth with a minimum 60% office-based requirement across the month. This is an opportunity to help protect critical national infrastructure and digitally important services relied upon across England and Wales. We offer a salary of £57,000 to £70,900, a Civil Service defined benefit pension with a 28.97% employer contribution, hybrid working with flexible arrangements, strong investment in learning and development, and an inclusive, collaborative culture focused on innovation and continuous improvement. You may also be required to travel occasionally to other offices, suppliers, and partner organisations, take part in an on-call rota, and work out of hours from time to time to support changes and service improvements.

last updated 31 week of 2026