Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer - Hybrid- £55,000 - Hyper-V -Azure My client is looking for a Infrastructure Engineer which will be responsible for the technical implementation and maintenance of the organization's services and infrastructure, encompassing both on-premises and cloud environments. The role entails provisioning, deploying, and sustaining these systems to align with business needs. You will be putting your knowledge, communicational skills and experience into practice to provide our customers, both internal and external, with outstanding service and support. Principal accountability areas Our business places a strong emphasis on innovation and relies heavily on software applications, making this role essential for ensuring service continuity and driving business growth. You will take a pivotal role in the design, build and management of the on-premise servers (Windows), virtualisation (Hyper-V) and our cloud infrastructure (Azure). This includes working on both physical and virtual hardware. Ensuring scalability, reliability and security of our infrastructure and collaborating with cross functional teams to meet business requirements. Monitoring and maintain the performance and availability of our infrastructure including regular maintenance such as patching and updates. Implementing and maintaining security measures to protect our infrastructure including ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. Leading infrastructure projects from initiation to completion Ensuring our network and infrastructure documentation is grown and kept up to date for team reference and audit. Reporting on infrastructure performance, incident and improvements The team operates a shift pattern to ensure core business hours are covered (8am-6pm )the person in this role needs to be able to both think tactically and also deliver a robust IT service. The role holder must be willing to travel to all locations, including field sites with a requirement to be in HQ minimum of once a week. The role holder will be expected to provide standby out-of-hours support on a rota. Demonstrable knowledge and experience with infrastructure including Virtualisation (Hyper-V), physical servers (windows) and storage. Proficient Windows server 2012-2019, AD, DNS, DHCP, Failover manager etc. Demonstrable experience with implementation of and backup maintenance (Veeam) Experience with on prem data centre maintenance and management. Demonstrable Azure Management (VM’s, NSG rules, Storage accounts etc) to be able to effectively contribute to the gradual migration of our environments to the cloud.