Infrastructure Engineer - potential for hybrid in Swinton, City and Borough of Salford

Location: Swinton, Manchester (potential for hybrid working)

Reports to: Head of Infrastructure

Salary: £45‑50k p.a. (pension, 24 days holidays)

Our client, a UK‑based consulting company, has established an exciting opportunity for an Infrastructure Engineer to work with the infrastructure team to implement, maintain, optimise and support multi‑site infrastructure on‑prem and, potentially, in the cloud.

Candidates will:

• Utilise expertise with Windows Servers, Azure cloud, VMware hypervisors and SAN storage to maintain business continuity.
• Take part in incident escalations to recover or prevent business disruptions.
• Proactively assist in capacity, disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Work with and be part of the infrastructure team to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• Implement, manage and support the internal IT infrastructure at an enterprise level.
• Proactively support the business and ensure hardware and software systems are patched and up to date.
• Use the company ticketing system to respond, communicate and document incidents, problems and service requests in a timely and professional manner.
• Create, update and maintain installation, implementation, maintenance and configuration documentation as needed.
• Support the wider business by ensuring system performance, uptime, customer SLAs and internal metrics are met.
• Abide by and comply with company compliance standards, policies, guidelines and procedures.
• Support multiple environments; on‑prem office, datacentre, virtual environments, networks, physical and/or cloud solutions as required.
• Participate in paid out‑of‑hours support as part of the on‑call rota.
• Occasional travel required between offices and datacentres.

Required skills, knowledge & experience

• Possess at least 5 years’ experience in a hands‑on enterprise infrastructure support role.
• Excellent understanding and experience managing Active Directory.
• Certified in at least one of the following: MCSA Windows Server, VCP Cloud Foundation, Azure Administrator Associate.
• Ability to attain relevant security clearance (SC clearance).
• Working knowledge of HA, DR and N+1 enterprise architecture.
• Excellent organisational, prioritisation and time‑management skills.
• Must be able to work under pressure.
• Ability to research and recommend solutions for technical issues.
• Must stay current in knowledge of IT technologies, solutions and best practices.
• Working experience with Azure cloud platforms.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills.
• Be able to communicate complex technical details to a non‑technical audience.

Desirable skills, knowledge & experience

• Certified in one of the following: CCNA, MCSE, VCP Datacentre and/or Azure Architect.
• Experience with SQL and clusters.
• SAN and storage management experience.
• Windows cluster management experience.
• Administration of load balancers.
• Knowledge of infrastructure and application security.