Infrastructure Engineer

• Experience working with Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) technologies.
• Working-level technical knowledge of authentication and authorisation protocols (such as Kerberos, SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect).
• Proven experience onboarding and integrating applications with Entra ID, including the configuration and management of Enterprise Applications.
• Practical experience using scripting and command-line tools to automate identity operations, including PowerShell, Bash, and Azure CLI.
• Experience implementing, supporting, or operating Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions and role-based access control (RBAC), for example Azure Privileged Identity Management (PIM) or CyberArk PAM.
• Practical experience of secrets management technologies and secure handling of credentials.
• Experience working within large enterprise environments, including collaboration across multi-supplier and partner-led delivery models.

Pay up to £52,442 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance., Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £52,442.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £12,000 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

And we have an award-winning environment and culture:

• DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards
• Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024
• Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025
• Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards

We are looking for an Identity Access Management Infrastructure Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us., We're building secure, scalable systems that support millions of users, and we're doing it with some of the best tech out there, think Entra ID, Active Directory and cloud platforms like Azure and AWS and a whole lot of automation. This role focuses on identity security and digital encryption, and you get to work across everything from authentication protocols to certificate management and secrets handling. It's fast-paced and constantly evolving. If you've got experience with IAM, PKI and cloud integration and you're comfortable scripting and automating with tools like PowerShell or APIs you'll fit right in. This team is extremely collaborative and forward-thinking. Everyone brings something different to the table and there's a real focus on learning, sharing ideas and building solutions that make a difference.