Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Proven, senior-level experience as an Infrastructure Engineer within a mid-to-large, established organisation with complex, bespoke, or grown organically legacy environments
- Experience in a regulated sector, such as financial services, healthcare, life sciences or defence, with a solid understanding of handling sensitive data securely, particularly during data transfers
- Strong hands-on experience with Dell servers, Windows Server, Hyper‑V/VMware, QNAP NAS and Cisco Meraki
- Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing and ACLs
- Proven track record of physical infrastructure work, including racking, cabling and site relocations
- Experience with SaaS tenancy migrations and identity platforms such as AD and Entra ID
- Prior involvement in M&A, infrastructure transformation, or large‑scale integration programmes is highly desirable
- A natural mentor, comfortable leading and upskilling less experienced colleagues without steamrolling them
- Calm, structured and professional under pressure
- Full UK driving licence
Responsibilities
- Assess legacy infrastructure and design pragmatic, low‑risk migration and remediation plans
- Physically relocate legacy equipment between sites, including racking, unracking, cabling and re‑cabling comms rooms
- Commission new server rooms, including racks, hardware population and structured cabling
- Manage Dell servers, Windows Server and virtualisation across both environments
- Configure and maintain QNAP NAS storage
- Own backup and restore using Veeam, including monitoring jobs, performing restores and supporting active migrations
- Configure and troubleshoot Cisco Meraki networking, including firewalls, VLANs and segmentation
- Tidy up and restructure legacy network environments
- Support SaaS and tenancy migrations, including moving services from legacy to new tenants, and identity platform work across AD and Entra ID
- Act as a senior escalation point, working closely with project managers, security teams and vendors
- Mentor and upskill junior members of the in‑house IT team, ensuring knowledge transfer ahead of handover
Technologies
- Cisco
- Hardware
- Hyper‑V
- Support
- LESS
- Network
- Security
- TCP/IP
- VMware
- Veeam
- Windows
- DevOps
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We are a global pharmaceutical business delivering a fast‑moving six‑month M&A integration programme to bring a newly acquired companys IT estate into a stable, standardised target‑state environment. This is a hands‑on, fully on‑site role based primarily at our Motherwell site with travel to other Scotland sites as required. The contract is up to £650 per day, inside IR35, for 6 months with a view to extend, and we are looking for someone who can hit the ground running with genuine ownership from day one.
last updated 36 week of 2026
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Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer in Viewpark employer: KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions LTD
Join a pioneering medical device design and development company in Cambridgeshire, where you will be part of a dynamic team dedicated to innovation in healthcare. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, you will benefit from structured career progression opportunities while working in a collaborative and supportive environment. Enjoy the unique advantage of contributing to cutting-edge projects that make a real difference in people's lives, all while being part of a company that values your development and well-being.
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KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions LTD Recruitment Team
