Senior Network Engineer - Hybrid working in Manchester

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you'll play an important role in making that possible, helping to keep our services resilient, secure and ready to support our growing business.You'll be a senior technical contributor within our Infrastructure team, taking ownership of the design and delivery of medium-sized infrastructure changes and projects. You'll bring deep technical expertise, understand how systems and services work together, and help ensure our infrastructure is built to the right standards, with security, resilience and long-term supportability at its heart.Alongside delivering complex technical work, you'll guide and support other engineers, work closely with colleagues across Technology Services, and help us manage risk, improve our services and deliver reliable outcomes for our customers.You'll help ensure our infrastructure continues to meet the needs of a growing, regulated business, supporting our operational resilience and regulatory responsibilities, including Consumer Duty.What you'll bringInfrastructure experience and technical deliveryStrong experience in an Infrastructure Engineer or similar technical role, preferably gained in a Financial Services, regulated or business-critical technology environment.Ability to own technical design and delivery for medium-sized infrastructure changes or projects. Strong understanding of dependencies between infrastructure technologies, applications, networks, identity, security and operational processes. Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and support timely incident and problem resolution. Experience producing technical documentation, implementation plans, support handover material and standards documentation. Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risks, decisions and trade-offs clearly. Strong understanding of security, resilience, monitoring, capacity and maintainability considerations. Microsoft Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux server configuration and management.Monitoring and observability tooling such as SolarWinds, Opsgenie, Grafana, Prometheus or equivalent.Storage, backup and disaster recovery technologies, including SAN/NAS, replication, snapshotting and recovery testing concepts.Cisco networking technologies, Cisco ISE and Catalyst Centre or equivalent demonstrable networking experience.Infrastructure performance and capacity monitoring, planning and remediation.AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, container platform concepts and cloud-based infrastructure patterns desirable.ITIL service management and PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum or equivalent project delivery experience beneficial.Good judgement, ownership and self-awareness when balancing business needs, risk, security and operational impact.A customer-focused mindset, understanding how reliable infrastructure supports service quality and the customer experience.A considered approach to technical decisions, weighing evidence, available options and long-term maintainability.A collaborative approach to improving services, reducing operational risk and supporting lasting change.Whether you're looking for an ISA, pension or dealing account, whether you want to invest with the help of a financial adviser or do it yourself, we have easy-to-use solutions to suit people from all walks of life.We're one of the UK's fastest-growing investment platform businesses, trusted by everyone from professional financial advisers to first-time investors.Today, over 762,000customers trust us to manage more than 121.5billion of assets. By continually striving to make investing simpler and more accessible, we're helping more people take control of their financial futures.We're proud to be recognised as a Great Place to Work for the past two years, building on six consecutive years as one of the UK's Best 100 Companies to Work For. What we offerCompetitive starting salary26 days holiday, increasing with service + buy/sell scheme + bank holidays7% Pension with matched contributionsDiscretionary bonus schemeShare schemes (including free shares and BAYE)Health Cash Plan and discounted private healthcareFree gymEnhanced family leave (subject to qualifying criteria)Travel and bike loan schemesEmployee Assistance ProgrammeLife at AJ BellRegular social events including summer and Christmas partiesLearning and development opportunities tailored to youCasual dress codeFriendly, supportive team environmentOur ways of workingAt AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you'll spend a minimum of 50% of working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be spent full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.Inclusion & diversityWe’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected, supported and able to be themselves at work.Financial Services