Infrastructure Engineer

With a major on-prem to cloud transformation planned for 2027, this a great opportunity for someone with strong on-prem skills to upskill into Azure and cloud delivery over time. You’ll still need solid on-prem capability in the interim, and some on-prem services will remain post-migration. The current set-up is c.70% on-prem, with expectations that this will change significantly in the coming year.

Key focus

• Hyper-V virtualisation (clusters/failover, estate improvement)
• Rubrik backup & recovery (highly desirable)
• Windows servers + enterprise storage (SAN/NAS, iSCSI/Fibre Channel)
• Firewall / network security hands-on experience
• Acquisition migrations - tenant/user/workload integrations into a core environment
• Exposure to, or ambition for, cloud transformation (Azure)

What you’ll do

• Design, deploy and support Windows on-prem, Hyper-V and Azure infrastructure
• Own patching, performance, capacity and lifecycle management
• Implement security controls and support compliance
• Lead infrastructure projects end-to-end
• Act as senior escalation for complex incidents
• Maintain accurate, audit-ready documentation
• Contribute to the 2026 cloud migration and automation improvements (Terraform)

Essential:

• Proven Hyper-V, Windows Server (2012-2022), servers & storage experience
• Strong AD/DNS/DHCP/failover clustering knowledge
• Rubrik backup experience preferred
• Firewall and core networking fundamentals (VLAN, CIDR, VRRP, etc.)
• Great documentation skills and change control/CAB experience
• Confident communicator, able to manage priorities and own delivery

Desirable:

• Azure admin experience or clear desire to upskill into cloud
• Tenant-to-tenant / acquisition integration experience
• Terraform/IaC exposure
• Relevant certs (CCNA/MCSA/AZ-series)

Largely remote, but with 1-4 days per month onsite in Basildon Light shift rota covering 8am-6pm Permanent | Salary up to £55,000 + benefits