Senior Infrastructure and Cloud Migration Engineer
Remote (if can travel to Yorkshire 1 day per week then that is ideal)
I'm seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Migration Engineer for an initial 4–6-month contract with a possible quick start.
The candidate will support the internal IT and Platform team with a program to modernise legacy infrastructure, upgrade servers, improve cloud services, and support migration activities.
Key responsibilities:
- Assess existing infrastructure and identify systems requiring upgrades, rebuilding or migration.
- Support the rebuilding and modernisation of AWS and on-premises servers.
- Improve infrastructure security, including server hardening, access controls, patching and endpoint protection.
- Plan and deliver phased migrations of business-critical systems while minimising disruption.
- Work closely with our internal IT, Security and Platform (DevOps) teams to ensure systems are stable, secure and properly documented.
- Provide knowledge transfer and handover to the permanent team.
Essential skills and experience:
- Strong hands-on AWS infrastructure and security experience, including EC2, IAM and networking.
- Windows Server, Linux, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and Microsoft Entra Domain Services (Azure AD DS).
- VMware, virtualisation and network infrastructure.
- Server migrations, infrastructure rebuilding and modernisation.
- Security hardening, Microsoft Defender and infrastructure security best practices.
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