Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Job summary

This Infrastructure Engineer designs, supports, and continuously improves resilient infrastructure across global data centres and local sites, helping ensure systems remain secure, scalable, and available. The role covers server and virtualisation environments, maintenance and upgrades, infrastructure refreshes and migrations, technical escalation and root-cause analysis, documentation, and supplier delivery. Key technologies include Nutanix, Microsoft Hyper-V, Rocky Linux, Windows Server, Ansible, Python, BIND DNS, and ISC Kea DHCP.

Qualifications

• At least five years managing infrastructure in a large-scale enterprise or outsourced services environment
• Experience designing and supporting server infrastructure, including Nutanix and Microsoft Hyper-V
• Experience configuring and maintaining Rocky Linux and Windows Server
• Working knowledge of Active Directory and Group Policy
• Experience using Ansible for configuration management and orchestration
• Python scripting capability
• Experience supporting BIND DNS and ISC Kea DHCP
• Ability to manage competing priorities and resolve complex technical issues
• Strong stakeholder communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills
• Eligibility to meet UK Security Clearance requirements
• Experience with enterprise backup solutions, particularly Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, is an advantage
• Experience leading infrastructure refresh, migration, or consolidation programmes is an advantage
• Experience managing technology suppliers and delivery against service levels and milestones is an advantage

Responsibilities

• Design, support, and maintain highly available server and virtualisation environments across data centres and local sites
• Manage infrastructure installation, upgrades, patching, and maintenance
• Lead or contribute to infrastructure refreshes, site migrations, rationalisation, and consolidation
• Provide technical escalation and guidance across server, infrastructure, and networking technologies
• Support technology modernisation and improve scalability, security, business continuity, and operational resilience
• Maintain technical documentation, rack and network diagrams, system records, and infrastructure inventories
• Manage third-party suppliers and delivery partners against agreed outcomes and timescales
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to design and improve infrastructure services
• Assess technology developments and present recommendations to senior leadership

Skills

Certifications

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Security clearance

Relocation