Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: up to GBP40k DOE
HYBRID after training

Are you a skilled Infrastructure Engineer looking for an exciting opportunity to contribute and work in a rapidly expanding IT department? We are seeking a hands-on, multi-disciplined Technical Lead to work within our client s fast paced IT team. This role is primarily office based but can support hybrid working after training.

This individual will support the IT development team and system administrators in delivering robust, performant, resilient and recoverable infrastructure platforms, traditional and cloud, as well as supporting the technical development of the internal infrastructure team. You will determine and maintain best practice and infrastructure standards as well as ensuring all platforms are secure and meet all legislative compliance requirements.

Duties:

• Promoting technical excellence within the team.
• Work within the incident response process providing expertise and support to the support team as required.
• Work with the other technical leads and external technical resource to design and document end to end, secure, and scalable, performant Infrastructure solutions driving appropriate best practice and standards.
• Participate in technical evaluation of products within the infrastructure domain and participate in the deployment and implementation of the infrastructure technologies.
• Work with the development team to understand development roadmaps for the business.
• Contribute to the development of technology roadmaps.
• Work closely with the IT teams to deliver cost effective solutions in line with the IT strategy and roadmap.
• Review vulnerability and penetration test results, advising, preparing, and performing remediation actions.
• Work with security functions, including the Data Protection Officer to ensure policies are maintained and audited.

Candidate Requirements:

• Knowledgeable in enhancements available within the current infrastructure.
• Minimum 3 years experience in a similar infrastructure with a minimum of 1 year s hands on cloud experience.
• Confident delivering creative proposals to senior managers.
• Proven and able to articulate technical hands-on experience with cloud platforms, ideally Azure in both design and support capacity.
• Awareness of DevOps, pipelines, and CI/CD methodology to support infrastructure deployments.
• Experience in a web-enabled, live e-commerce environment with skills to include web site and services implementations, customisation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience of working on multi-tier, high volume, transactional system platforms and an understanding of the challenges and management.
• Experience with use of infrastructure auto-deployment techniques; PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform etc.
• Awareness of web application development techniques and tools, XML, .Net framework, IIS, Apache and CI/CD methodologies.
• Experience of the development of high and low-level designs and documenting technical solutions.
• Working knowledge of ITILv3.