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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Infrastructure Engineer - **Company:** Aj Bell - **Location:** Manchester, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £71,028.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services, Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Catalyst (Software), Continuous Integration, Multi-Factor Authentication, Monitoring of Systems, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Windows Servers, Network Segmentation, PRINCE2, Scrum Methodology, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Prometheus, Server Administration, Security Information and Event Management, Single Sign-On, Storage Virtualization, Software Vulnerability Management, Wide Area Networks, Scripting, Computer Networking Systems, Identity Services Engine, Load Balancing, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Software Troubleshooting, Kubernetes, SolarWinds (Software), Patch Management, Fortinet, Terraform, Pagerduty, Vmware - **Published:** August 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5841480150 ## About the Role * Strong experience in an Infrastructure Engineer or similar technical role, preferably gained in a Financial Services, regulated or business-critical technology environment. * Experience designing, delivering and supporting production infrastructure services. * Ability to own technical design and delivery for medium-sized infrastructure changes or projects. * Strong understanding of dependencies between infrastructure technologies, applications, networks, identity, security and operational processes. * Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and support timely incident and problem resolution. * Experience producing technical documentation, implementation plans, support handover material and standards documentation. * Experience working within change control, operational governance and service management processes. * Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risks, decisions and trade-offs clearly. * Ability to coach, guide and support less experienced engineers. * Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver work to agreed timescales. * Strong understanding of security, resilience, monitoring, capacity and maintainability considerations. * Experience working with suppliers and third-party support providers where required. Knowledge * VMware technologies including Dell VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure, Aria Suite, NSX, HCX, vSAN, VCF and VMC. * Load balancing technologies such as VMware AVI, NSX or equivalent. * Fortinet SD-WAN and firewall technologies, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and FortiClient VPN or equivalent. * Microsoft Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux server configuration and management. * Monitoring and observability tooling such as SolarWinds, Opsgenie, Grafana, Prometheus or equivalent. * Storage, backup and disaster recovery technologies, including SAN/NAS, replication, snapshotting and recovery testing concepts. * Identity and access technologies such as Active Directory, ADFS, SSO and MFA. * Cisco networking technologies, Cisco ISE and Catalyst Centre or equivalent demonstrable networking experience. * Infrastructure performance and capacity monitoring, planning and remediation. * AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, container platform concepts and cloud-based infrastructure patterns desirable. * Infrastructure as Code, automation, scripting and CI/CD practices desirable with experience of Terraform preferred * Security tooling and practices including patch management, vulnerability management, SIEM, EDR, PAM and micro-segmentation desirable. * ITIL service management and PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum or equivalent project delivery experience beneficial. Personal and other skills * Able to manage complexity and ambiguity, seeking the information and perspectives required to make effective decisions. * Demonstrates good judgement, ownership and self-awareness when balancing business need, risk, security and operational impact. * Focuses on customers by protecting service reliability, supporting agreed service levels and improving customer experience. * Understands the link between Infrastructure, wider Technology Services teams and business outcomes. * Engages others effectively through clear communication, constructive challenge, useful feedback and knowledge sharing. * Makes good decisions by considering evidence, technical options, wider consequences and long-term maintainability. * Works as part of a team to drive improvements, reduce operational risk and support long-term changes * Builds and maintains strong working relationships across the Technology Services department and wider business. ## Description The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, delivering, supporting and maintaining secure, resilient and supportable infrastructure solutions across AJ Bell's technology estate. The role acts as a senior technical contributor within the Infrastructure team. It owns technical design and delivery for medium-sized infrastructure changes and projects, understands dependencies between systems and workstreams, guides Infrastructure Engineers, and ensures work is delivered in line with agreed standards, controls and security expectations. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is expected to be highly technically skilled and experienced across multiple infrastructure technologies. The role balances hands-on delivery with planning, technical leadership, stakeholder communication, operational support, documentation, risk awareness and security-focused best practice. 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