IT Infrastructure Engineer

Fed up spending all your time firefighting support tickets? Looking for an IT Infrastructure Technician role where you’ll gain exposure to modern Microsoft technologies, enterprise infrastructure and exciting technical projects?

This IT Infrastructure Technician opportunity offers the chance to join a well-established UK manufacturing business where IT is recognised as a key part of the organisation’s continued growth. You’ll support business-critical infrastructure across a large multi-site environment whilst developing your technical expertise across cloud, virtualisation, networking and security technologies.

As IT Infrastructure Technician, you’ll work as part of a collaborative infrastructure team where you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to both day-to-day operational support and infrastructure improvement projects. If you’re looking for a role that combines technical variety with genuine long-term development, this is well worth exploring.

What You’ll Be Doing Working across a diverse enterprise infrastructure, you’ll:

• Deliver 2nd and 3rd line support across core infrastructure technologies
• Support Microsoft Server, Active Directory, Microsoft 365 and Azure environments
• Maintain VMware, on-premise infrastructure and virtualised platforms
• Assist with networking, firewall and security technologies
• Contribute to infrastructure projects from planning through to implementation
• Create clear technical documentation and share knowledge across the wider IT team
• Help maintain secure, resilient and highly available IT services across the business

• Windows Server, Active Directory and Microsoft 365
• Azure cloud technologies
• VMware vSphere and virtualisation
• SQL Server environments
• LAN, WAN and firewall technologies
• Linux, ideally Ubuntu
• Cyber security best practice
• Technical documentation and knowledge sharing
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical colleagues

Experience within manufacturing environments, AWS, GCP, SAN storage, SSL certificate management or emerging AI technologies such as Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT would be advantageous, but isn’t essential.

Why Join? This is a business that continues to invest in both its technology and its people. Infrastructure isn’t viewed as simply keeping the lights on, it’s recognised as a key part of supporting operational performance and future growth.

You’ll work alongside experienced infrastructure professionals, gain exposure to a broad range of enterprise technologies and have the opportunity to build your technical capability through ongoing project work and professional development.

You’ll also benefit from:

• £40,000 - £45,000 salary, depending on experience
• Permanent, full-time position
• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Contributory pension scheme
• Modern laptop and smartphone
• Flexible working arrangements where business needs allow
• Ongoing technical training and development
• A collaborative team environment with genuine long-term career opportunities

Consortium Professional Recruitment Ltd are a professional level recruitment consultancy specialising in the delivery of high relevance recruitment services on behalf of our clients across the UK. We regularly receive large responses to our advertising which can make providing individual feedback to every applicant challenging. If you haven’t received a reply from us within 14 days of your application, we regret to say your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. We have a policy of retaining your details for future vacancies unless you request otherwise. To learn more about our services, please visit Reference: 57079525