Senior Infrastructure Engineer

We are seeking a skilled and proactive individual to play a key role in supporting the ANS infrastructure. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining the availability and security of critical components across the ANS platform.

Working closely with the wider Infrastructure and Security Operations Centre (SoC) teams, the role involves managing patching schedules, performing firmware upgrades, and collaborating with vendors to ensure seamless interoperability and support across the technology stack.

This position also serves as an escalation point for both the Infrastructure team and other technical teams, providing subject matter expertise in VMware, storage, and broader infrastructure technologies. The successful candidate will work alongside Team Leaders and Architects to help deliver our product roadmap and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

What will I be doing?

Work to ensure conformtiy to public sector infrastructure requirements are met.

Work in conjunction with our SoC team to develop and maintain platform security baselines

Monitor, diagnose and resolve significant problems within the ANS infrastructure

Be an escalation point for team members and the support teams offering technical expertise in virtualization, compute hardware and storage

Collaborate and work with other technical teams to provide industry leading support to our customers

Responsible for creating high quality documentation

Proactively work to identify areas of improvement in the platform

Effectively deliver project milestones

Responsible for the generation of LLD from HLD

Ensure our infrastructure is up to date by planning & performing patching and firmware upgrades

Working with vendors to raise escalations and troubleshoot issues

Produce and maintain high quality technical documentation

Out-of-hours work on core systems and joining the on-call rota

Leading small & medium projects, and working on large scale projects

Deliver working within ANS change control, CAB and incident management

Plan, prepare and deliver for upcoming maintenance works.

What will I bring to the role?

Exposure to secure architechture design and implementation

Experience with the deployment and management Carbon Black or other EDR solutions across cloud infrastructure

Siginficant previous experience as an infrastructure engineer working on a large scale enterprise or multi-tenant environment

VMware 7.0+ in (Experience with hosting provider specific technologies like Auto deploy, VVOLs or multi-site topologies is a bonus)

Significant experience troubleshooting and analysing complex failures

Operational experience of NSX 3.0+

Scripting abilities in Powershell and PowerCLI

Experience with Cisco UCS or other enterprise blade systems

Significant Experience with Storage Technologies (HPE 3PAR, Nimble, Dell Compellent)

Experience with FC storage networking

Experience with infrastructure monitoring platforms

Experience in successfully leading and delivering large scale projects

Ability to produce and maintain Low Level Design Documentation