Infrastructure, Security and DevOps Engineer

Title: Infrastructure, Security and DevOps Engineer Location: Leeds Hours: 37.5 The Position Supporting the design, delivery, resilience, security, and efficiency of the firm's IT infrastructure, applications, and deployment pipelines. This role ensures secure, scalable, and highly available systems that support the delivery of high-quality legal services, with continuous integration and delivery processes aligned to the firm's strategic goals and compliant with industry and legal sector-specific standards. Key Responsibilities The Infrastructure, Security and DevOps Engineer is responsible for maintaining and enhancing the firm’s IT infrastructure, ensuring systems are secure, resilient, and capable of supporting business and client service requirements. The role manages core infrastructure technologies across on-premise and cloud environments, drives automation and deployment processes, and monitors system performance to maximise availability, reliability, and operational efficiency. The role also plays a key part in protecting the firm’s technology estate, supporting cybersecurity operations, compliance requirements, and incident response activities. Working closely with IT, security, and development teams, the postholder provides technical expertise, supports infrastructure and transformation projects, delivers 3rd line support, and promotes continuous improvement across infrastructure, security, DevOps practices, and service delivery. About You You will be an experienced IT infrastructure, systems administration, or cybersecurity professional who enjoys working across a broad technology landscape and is passionate about delivering secure, reliable, and high-performing IT services. With strong technical knowledge of Windows and Linux Server environments, Microsoft 365, Intune, Active Directory, Hyper-V, networking, and security best practices, you are comfortable taking ownership of complex technical challenges and providing effective solutions. You are a proactive problem solver with excellent troubleshooting skills and a strong focus on continuous improvement. You enjoy working collaboratively with colleagues across IT, security, and development teams, balancing operational responsibilities with project-based work. Ideally, you will have experience or a keen interest in DevOps practices, automation, cloud technologies, and infrastructure as code, with a desire to continually develop your technical skills. We are looking for someone who is organised, adaptable, and committed to delivering excellent service. You will be comfortable working in a fast-paced professional environment, able to communicate technical concepts clearly to a range of stakeholders, and motivated by the opportunity to contribute to the security, resilience, and future development of a growing international firm. Experience within a professional services environment, along with exposure to technologies such as Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD tools, would be advantageous. About HGF: HGF Limited is one of Europe’s largest intellectual property specialist firms offering a fully integrated IP solution, bringing over 200 Patent Attorneys, Trade Mark Attorneys and IP Solicitors together to provide a full-service IP solution. With 25 offices across the UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Switzerland & Austria, HGF’s Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys provide specialist technical and legal advice to blue chip organisations and small to medium businesses across the world. Many of our clients are household names and the work HGF does allows them to protect and exploit their inventions, new products and branding. Why move to HGF? HGF takes a transparent and merit-based approach to your career development and you will have the opportunity to shape your long-term progression.We’re a firm with a focus on DEI (Diversity, Equality and Inclusion), with a staff led DEI Focus Group, affinity networks and a DEI Board sponsor As a business we have a dedicated Learning and Development team focused on career long development of your skills along with a digital learning platform covering a wide range of contentBenefits including our award winning enhanced parental leave policy, 27 days holiday, bonus scheme and flexible working HGF Values People - People matter. We treat people fairly, with respect and compassion. We foster a friendly, inclusive and enjoyable culture for everyone to prosper in. We invest in our people and offer appropriate coaching and training to assist with development and learning. We promote a healthy work-life balance. Progression is based on merit. Excellence – We strive to be the best. We pursue excellence in all our individual roles resulting in outstanding legal and technical advice for our clients. Our people are pragmatic, responsive and commercially minded. We do not presume but listen to understand so we can engage proactively and appropriately. Teamwork – We stand together. We work with our clients to protect their interests, and with each other as a mutually supporting firm. We value, appreciate and listen to others, regardless of role, recognising each individual’s particular blend of talent, skill and experience. We are individually and jointly accountable and take responsibility for our actions and decisions. Progressive – We innovate. We continually improve our services and processes through understanding, creativity, and investment. We evolve by taking opportunities and adopting new business procedures, unencumbered by historical structures or out-of-date attitudes. As a firm, we have an entrepreneurial spirit, and encourage new thinking in our people.