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# IT Operations Engineer

- **Company:** Zenith
- **Location:** Leeds, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £43,000.0 - £53,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Active Directory, Microsoft Azure, Computer Networks, Domain Name System (DNS), Monitoring of Systems, Information Technology Operations, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Microsoft Software, Windows Servers, OpenShift, Windows PowerShell, TCP/IP, Virtual Local Area Networks, Software Vulnerability Management, Wide Area Networks, Azure Powershell, Firewalls (Computer Science), Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Bicep, Terraform, Devsecops
- **Published:** July 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f0da0749d47fc202

## About the Role

* Experience in a 3rd line support or IT Operations role, with a strong focus on operational excellence and security best practices.
 * Strong expertise across Microsoft technologies including Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS and Group Policy.
 * Hands-on experience designing, deploying and supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
 * Solid understanding of networking concepts including LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs and firewalls.
 * Experience with scripting and automation tools such as PowerShell, Azure CLI, Terraform or Bicep.
 * Knowledge of infrastructure monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting within production environments.
 * Exposure to or an interest in containerised platforms such as Kubernetes (AKS) or OpenShift would be beneficial.

## Description

We are currently looking for an IT Operations Engineer to join our Tech & Change team. This is a hands-on technical role responsible for delivering IT operational and 3rd line infrastructure support across critical services and platforms. You'll play a key role in maintaining operational excellence, supporting cloud and infrastructure technologies, driving automation, and ensuring the resilience, security and performance of our IT environment.

You'll be part of a growing Infrastructure Operations team, working closely with Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevSecOps and FinOps colleagues. Together, you'll support a modern hybrid cloud environment, manage operational activities, contribute to key technology projects, and help deliver continuous improvement across the IT estate.

What's the Role

 * Deliver 3rd line operational and infrastructure support across key IT services and systems.
 * Manage ITSM queues, monitoring platforms, vulnerability tools and operational backlogs.
 * Build, maintain and secure Azure infrastructure, leveraging Infrastructure as Code where appropriate.
 * Identify and implement automation and scripting opportunities across the technology estate.
 * Monitor, investigate and remediate operational, service and security alerts.
 * Support patching, compliance, vulnerability remediation and infrastructure best practices.
 * Contribute to infrastructure projects and provide operational acceptance before go-live.


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