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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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Job Description: The Senior Infrastructure Engineer role in Birmingham involves enhancing the IT environment through high-level BAU support and project work. The position requires ownership of core infrastructure services and mentoring junior staff while driving a digital strategy in a collaborative team. The role emphasizes the adoption of modern cloud-first technologies and participation in impactful projects. Excellent benefits accompany the position, including generous holiday and pension contributions.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions aligned to organisational strategy
  • Lead BAU operations across networks, firewalls, hosting platforms, and server endpoints
  • Proactively monitor systems, troubleshoot issues, and conduct root cause analysis
  • Own disaster recovery and business continuity planning, testing, and documentation
  • Act as a subject matter expert on infrastructure and cybersecurity best practice
  • Mentor junior engineers and support wider Digital Services initiatives
  • Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to deliver tailored solutions

Skills Required:

  • Some experience in automation tools (Ansible, Terraform etc)
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft technologies (Office 365, Azure AD/Entra, Intune, AVD, Windows Server)
  • Understanding of identity management, SSO, MFA, RBAC
  • Skilled in cloud networking, server/storage systems (Azure)
  • Experience with VMware vSphere/vCenter and enterprise-level firewalls
  • Certifications such as ITIL, CCNA, Microsoft, VMware, or Citrix preferred
  • Leadership and mentoring capabilities
  • Vendor and stakeholder management
  • Strong problem-solving and risk mitigation skills
  • Customer-focused with an eye for service delivery improvements
  • Excellent communication and strategic thinking abilities

Salary (Rate): £55,000 yearly

City: Birmingham

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Senior Infrastructure Engineer : Birmingham (Hybrid) : GBP45,000:GBP55,000 + Excellent Benefits

Im seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with a background in high level BAU support and project work, to improve their IT environment. Youll be working on high:impact projects and help drive a forward:thinking digital strategy in a purpose:led organisation. Youll be joining a collaborative Digital Services team, where youll take ownership of core infrastructure services and mentor junior colleagues and helping the organisation embrace modern cloud:first technologies.

Benefits for the senior infrastructure engineer

  • 25 days holiday + bank holiday
  • Up to 6 matched pension, performance related bonus, online discount scheme
  • EAP, online GO and mental health services, health cash plan, Cycle to work scheme.
  • Accident insurance, sick pay insurance
  • Excellent learning and development opportunities

Key Responsibilities For The Senior Infrastructure Engineer

  • Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions aligned to organisational strategy
  • Lead BAU operations across networks, firewalls, hosting platforms, and server endpoints
  • Proactively monitor systems, troubleshoot issues, and conduct root cause analysis
  • Own disaster recovery and business continuity planning, testing, and documentation
  • Act as a subject matter expert on infrastructure and cybersecurity best practice
  • Mentor junior engineers and support wider Digital Services initiatives
  • Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to deliver tailored solutions

What Were Looking For In The Senior Infrastructure Engineer

  • some exerience in automation tools (Ansible, Terraform etc)
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft technologies (Office 365, Azure AD/Entra, Intune, AVD, Windows Server)
  • Understanding of identity management, SSO, MFA, RBAC
  • Skilled in cloud networking, server/storage systems (Azure)
  • Experience with VMware vSphere/vCenter and enterprise:level firewalls
  • Certifications such as ITIL, CCNA, Microsoft, VMware, or Citrix preferred
  • Leadership and mentoring capabilities
  • Vendor and stakeholder management
  • Strong problem:solving and risk mitigation skills
  • Customer:focused with an eye for service delivery improvements
  • Excellent communication and strategic thinking abilities

If you are interested in this role or looking for something similar, Alex directly on you are interested in this position please click apply. Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent and contract roles within Engineering and Manufacturing, IT and Digital, Science and Technology and Service and Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills and qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

Rate:

£55,000 Per year

Location:

West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

IR35 Status:

Undetermined

Remote Status:

Hybrid

Industry:

IT

Seniority Level:

Not Specified

Job Description: The Senior Infrastructure Engineer role in Birmingham involves enhancing the IT environment through high-level BAU support and project work. The position requires ownership of core infrastructure services and mentoring junior staff while driving a digital strategy in a collaborative team. The role emphasizes the adoption of modern cloud-first technologies and participation in impactful projects. Excellent benefits accompany the position, including generous holiday and pension contributions.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions aligned to organisational strategy
  • Lead BAU operations across networks, firewalls, hosting platforms, and server endpoints
  • Proactively monitor systems, troubleshoot issues, and conduct root cause analysis
  • Own disaster recovery and business continuity planning, testing, and documentation
  • Act as a subject matter expert on infrastructure and cybersecurity best practice
  • Mentor junior engineers and support wider Digital Services initiatives
  • Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to deliver tailored solutions

Skills Required:

  • Some experience in automation tools (Ansible, Terraform etc)
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft technologies (Office 365, Azure AD/Entra, Intune, AVD, Windows Server)
  • Understanding of identity management, SSO, MFA, RBAC
  • Skilled in cloud networking, server/storage systems (Azure)
  • Experience with VMware vSphere/vCenter and enterprise-level firewalls
  • Certifications such as ITIL, CCNA, Microsoft, VMware, or Citrix preferred
  • Leadership and mentoring capabilities
  • Vendor and stakeholder management
  • Strong problem-solving and risk mitigation skills
  • Customer-focused with an eye for service delivery improvements
  • Excellent communication and strategic thinking abilities

Salary (Rate): £55,000 yearly

City: Birmingham

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Senior Infrastructure Engineer : Birmingham (Hybrid) : GBP45,000:GBP55,000 + Excellent Benefits

Im seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with a background in high level BAU support and project work, to improve their IT environment. Youll be working on high:impact projects and help drive a forward:thinking digital strategy in a purpose:led organisation. Youll be joining a collaborative Digital Services team, where youll take ownership of core infrastructure services and mentor junior colleagues and helping the organisation embrace modern cloud:first technologies.

Benefits for the senior infrastructure engineer

  • 25 days holiday + bank holiday
  • Up to 6 matched pension, performance related bonus, online discount scheme
  • EAP, online GO and mental health services, health cash plan, Cycle to work scheme.
  • Accident insurance, sick pay insurance
  • Excellent learning and development opportunities

Key Responsibilities For The Senior Infrastructure Engineer

  • Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions aligned to organisational strategy
  • Lead BAU operations across networks, firewalls, hosting platforms, and server endpoints
  • Proactively monitor systems, troubleshoot issues, and conduct root cause analysis
  • Own disaster recovery and business continuity planning, testing, and documentation
  • Act as a subject matter expert on infrastructure and cybersecurity best practice
  • Mentor junior engineers and support wider Digital Services initiatives
  • Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to deliver tailored solutions

What Were Looking For In The Senior Infrastructure Engineer

  • some exerience in automation tools (Ansible, Terraform etc)
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft technologies (Office 365, Azure AD/Entra, Intune, AVD, Windows Server)
  • Understanding of identity management, SSO, MFA, RBAC
  • Skilled in cloud networking, server/storage systems (Azure)
  • Experience with VMware vSphere/vCenter and enterprise:level firewalls
  • Certifications such as ITIL, CCNA, Microsoft, VMware, or Citrix preferred
  • Leadership and mentoring capabilities
  • Vendor and stakeholder management
  • Strong problem:solving and risk mitigation skills
  • Customer:focused with an eye for service delivery improvements
  • Excellent communication and strategic thinking abilities

If you are interested in this role or looking for something similar, Alex directly on you are interested in this position please click apply. Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent and contract roles within Engineering and Manufacturing, IT and Digital, Science and Technology and Service and Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills and qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

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