Technical Consultant (Infrastructure Operations)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves working as a Technical Consultant within NHS England's multi-cloud environment, primarily focusing on Azure. You will collaborate with teams to build and support critical national services, ensuring compliance with cloud controls and guardrails. The position requires using your Azure expertise to engage with technical product teams and help deliver enterprise-level services for streamlined cloud adoption. You will also work with partners and maintain a keen interest in cloud security aspects.
Key responsibilities
- Work within NHS England's multi-cloud environment, with a primary focus on Azure.
- Collaborate with teams building and supporting critical national services.
- Help teams to work within guardrails to be compliant with cloud controls.
- Use 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 chosen partners who provide enterprise-level industry knowledge.
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- 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
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Administrator level Azure Cloud Certification
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,807 – £63,862 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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NHS England
Technical Consultant (Infrastructure Operations)
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
The post of Technical Consultant has been awarded a Recruitment and Retention Premia (RRP) in response to current labour market conditions. In recognition of this, the role attracts an additional monthly RRP payment equal to 13% per annum.
Please be aware that RRP is none contractual and subject to review.
Infrastructure Services
The purpose of Infrastructure services is to ensure our services and systems are hosted effectively, securely and efficiently.
The function of Infrastructure services brings all network and hosting infrastructure into a single team which will provide a multi-skilled 24/7 Infra Operations team organised by function and focussed on supporting continual improvement.
The teams are divided into fourcore areas providing technical and service management expertise:
- Hosting
- Cloud centre of excellence
- Connectivity
- Central capabilities
Main duties of the job
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
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