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# Senior IT Hardware Engineer

- **Company:** Cloud People
- **Location:** Portsmouth, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £39,000.0 - £75,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Centers, Firmware, Networking Hardware, PCI Data Security Standards, Reliability Availability Maintainability and Safety Software, Load Balancing, SC Clearance
- **Published:** September 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5891624400

## About the Role

* Around five years or more in data centre operations or infrastructure engineering
 * Strong grounding in commodity compute, storage and network hardware, including standard configurations, firmware and software
 * Solid understanding of data centre best practice, with experience managing RAMS and risk in critical environments
 * Structured cabling standards across Cat6 and 6a, OM3 and OM4, and fibre
 * Familiarity with power and cooling, including PDU configurations and load balancing
 * Awareness of logistics, manual handling and vehicle loading
 * Demonstrated leadership or team management experience, ideally across mixed teams of employees and contractors
 * Experience contributing to large scale projects and multi team delivery
 * Organised and accurate under pressure, with strong written documentation habits
 * Confident with customers, able to explain technical detail clearly to non technical stakeholders
 * Eligible for UK NSV SC clearance and BS7858 vetting
 * Clean manual driving licence, valid passport, and willing to travel to UK and overseas customer sites including overnight stays
 * Available for out of hours work including nights and weekends where projects require it

## Description

* Lead and execute the physical build, installation, relocation and decommission of IT hardware across servers, switches and storage
 * Design and implement rack layouts and cabling solutions, keeping installations clean, labelled and logically routed
 * Manage patching schedules, cable trays and labelling schemes in line with site and customer standards
 * Coordinate with design teams and facilities on power and space planning
 * Produce and maintain Risk Assessments and Method Statements for engineering tasks, and keep asset and site documentation current
 * Support audits and compliance checks across standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS
 * Identify operational risk early, put mitigations in place and promote a safety first culture
 * Represent data centre works through change management and CAB processes
 * Supervise and mentor junior engineers and contractors, allocating tasks and giving technical guidance and feedback
 * Act as the escalation point for technical and logistical issues in day to day operations
 * Work with project managers, infrastructure architects and third party vendors to deliver migrations, expansions and refresh cycles on time and on budget

Technologies:

 * Firmware
 * Hardware
 * Support
 * Load Balancing
 * Network


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