Infrastructure Engineer (ZTNA)

Job Title

Infrastructure Engineer (ZTNA)

Salary

£48,987 – £55,000

Location

Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester

Hours

Full‑time

Working Pattern

Hybrid – at least two days per week at an office site.

Responsibilities

• Design, evolve, and operate Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) platforms, protecting access to critical applications and services through modern identity‑aware and context‑driven security controls.
• Apply automation and secure‑by‑default engineering practices to improve resilience, performance, and security.
• Influence technical direction, uplift engineering standards, and develop ZTNA and wider Zero Trust capabilities across the organisation.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy and technical influence using Infrastructure‑as‑Code, CI/CD, and policy‑as‑code approaches.
• Drive platform modernisation, improve observability and telemetry, and support major incident diagnostics.
• Embed Zero Trust principles and produce high‑quality engineering documentation.
• Participate in the on‑call rota to contribute to the operational resilience of critical access services.

Qualifications

• Proven engineering mindset with hands‑on experience across ZTNA, remote access or identity‑aware access technologies onprem and cloud.
• Demonstrable experience in cloud network security, preferably Azure and GCP.
• Strong automation and scripting skills – Python preferred.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools, Terraform preferred.
• Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS).
• Knowledge of identity protocols such as SAML and OIDC.
• Understanding of Zero Trust principles.
• Ability to lead complex technical investigations and diagnose issues under pressure.
• Confidence to influence engineering decisions and contribute to technical direction.

Desired Skills

• Identity & Access Management (IAM) knowledge.
• Experience with device posture and endpoint security.
• Understanding of secure application access patterns.
• Experience with Zero Trust architectures.
• Knowledge of federation and user‑to‑application segmentation.
• Professional cloud certifications.
• Security, identity or network engineering accreditations.

Benefits

• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes, including free shares.
• Flexible benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• Range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
• Disability adjustments and inclusive workplace practices – including a Disability Confident Scheme.

We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and provide reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, long‑term health, or neurodivergent conditions. Interviews will be fair and proportionate for applicants who meet the minimum criteria and have a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition.

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