IT Senior Technical Transition Engineer 310353 in Nottingham

Come and join the Littlefish team!

Work location: Nottingham or Sheffield (Hybrid)

Office day: Wednesday is our regular team collaboration day.

Salary: Up to: £75,000

Must be eligible for SC Clearance (UK resident for the last 5 years)

Here at Littlefish, we look for people who can make a real difference and become a giant slayer. As the world around us continues to change, we look for people who grab that change with optimism and excitement. These are the passionate and high performing people who enjoy and thrive on thinking outside the box.

The role and what you’ll be getting up to on a day to day basis:

We are hiring an experienced Senior Technical Transition Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. This is a highly technical role focused on bringing new customers into service, leading technical due diligence, deploying tooling, documenting environments, and ensuring a smooth transition into operational support. You’ll work across a broad range of technologies, engaging directly with customers, third parties, and internal technical teams to deliver successful service transitions.

• Leading technical due diligence activities for new customer estates.
• Assessing infrastructure, services, tools and operational readiness before acceptance into service.
• Deploying Littlefish standard tooling across customer environments.
• Producing and maintaining high-quality technical documentation and knowledge articles.
• Providing early life support following customer onboarding activities.
• Acting as a technical authority during service transition projects.
• Working closely with operational teams to ensure a seamless handover into support.
• Contributing to technical projects across infrastructure and transition functions.
• Providing technical guidance and knowledge sharing across engineering teams.
• Occasionally supporting the resolution of complex, high-impact incidents and problems.
• Helping shape technical standards, processes, and future service capabilities.

What we are looking for:

You will be an experienced infrastructure engineer who is comfortable leading technical onboarding activities, assessing customer environments and ensuring services are successfully transitioned into operational support. You’ll have strong stakeholder management skills, enjoy solving complex technical challenges and be confident working independently or as part of a wider engineering team.

Key experience and skills:

• Strong Windows Server infrastructure knowledge, including Active Directory, Group Policy, PKI and PowerShell.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra, M365, Intune, and SCCM or other endpoint management platforms.
• Good understanding of networking, security, and cloud technologies, including Azure.
• Experience deploying and supporting service management, monitoring, and backup tooling.
• Proven experience producing technical documentation, knowledge transfer materials, and operational handovers.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, work to tight deadlines and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience supporting service transitions, technical governance activities, and operational readiness processes.
• Relevant certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-305, MS-102, SC-300, CCNA or CCNP would be beneficial, although equivalent practical experience is equally valued.

What can we offer you?

• Through our one of a kind training programme, the Littlefish Academy, you can increase your earnings by £4,500.
• Referral bonus scheme of £1000 when you successfully refer a friend.
• Access to our LinkedIn Learning platform, with over 16000 expert-led online tutorials to enhance and achieve your personal and professional goals.
• Healthcare cash plan. This will give you access to online GP appointments, 24/7 access to qualified counsellors and cash back against a range of general healthcare.
• Casual dress policy.
• Company Pension Scheme.
• Company social events.
• 25 days annual leave plus public / bank holidays.
• Purchase of annual leave scheme.

Life at Littlefish:

Our company values shape who we are as a business, what we stand for and how we work. Hiring people with our values at heart, is very important as we see Littlefish grow.

• I am High Performing - I like to raise the bar, we look at creating opportunities to increase quality and improve efficiency, we strive for service excellence.
• I am Passionate - We build team success and celebrate them together, I am enthusiastic and energetic, I care about the people I work with and we support one another.
• I Have a Can-Do Attitude - I am not afraid to step outside my comfort zone, we are not afraid to challenge status quo, we get stuff done!
• I am Cyber Conscious - I am vigilant, responsible, and proactive in protecting our people, customers and organisation from Cyber threats.

Here at Littlefish we aim to be somewhere everyone can be themselves. We are committed to encouraging a diverse and inclusive community where everyone irrespective of who they are, or their background, can feel equal and supported. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Please get in touch if you are concerned about any difficulties you may face during your recruitment process, so we adjust accordingly.

Part of our application process includes a set of ED&I (Equality, diversity and inclusion) questions. Please note, each question has a ‘prefer not to say’ option.