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The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is the independent regulator of fertility treatment and embryo research. We license and inspect clinics and laboratories to ensure safe, effective services for everyone affected by fertility treatment. We hold the largest database of fertility treatments in the world.

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In November 2024, the HFEA was awarded People Insight’s Outstanding Workplace Award 2024. This award is for organisations that achieve a top-quartile employee engagement score, of 85% percent or higher, in their employee survey.

Principal Infrastructure Operations Engineer

We are looking for a Principal Infrastructure Operations Engineer to play a key role in ensuring the IT team supports the organisation to fulfil its statutory and corporate responsibilities.

Strong, demonstrable hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure is essential as you’ll be leading the design, engineering and lifecycle of Azure and M365. This role would suit somebody who is proactive, can work effectively as part of a team and can balance competing priorities.

This role provides strategic and operational leadership for the HFEAs cloud environments, infrastructure, networks, and cyber security functions, ensuring best practices are followed so the HFEAs systems are secure and effective as possible. You will have direct responsibility for a team of two (IT Service & Systems Manager and IT Support Engineer) and will be responsible for managing an ongoing roadmap for service and security improvements. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fascinating area of public health.

Closing date: Midnight on Sunday, 31^st May 2026

Apply for the Principal Infrastructure Operations Engineer role on on NHS jobs.

Member - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

The HFEA has been the UK's regulator of fertility treatment and embryo research for over 30 years, created to make policy and regulate standards as the fertility sector developed following the birth of the world’s first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in 1978. We are one of the few UK wide regulators, overseeing treatment in both the NHS and private sector.

It is a huge privilege to be a Board member of this internationally renowned and respected organisation and to be able to contribute to policy and licensing decisions in such an innovative and ethically contested area of medicine.

Members are required to build and retain public and professional confidence in the regulation of fertility treatment and embryo research and to play a key part in the effective and successful governance of the HFEA.

We are recruiting 2 new HFEA Members: a Professional Member and a Lay Member.

A person who would be recognised as a Professional cannot apply for a Lay post.

We are also seeking one of the new appointees (either the Lay or Professional Member) to also chair a sub-committee of the HFEA board: the Audit and Governance Committee (AGC).

Closing date: Midday on Monday, 25^th May 2026

Apply for the Authority member role on public appointment website.