Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: £45,000 – 55,000 per year

Requirements

• At least 5 years experience in a hands‑on enterprise infrastructure support role.
• Excellent understanding and experience managing Active Directory.
• Certified in at least one of the following: MCSA Windows Server, VCP Cloud Foundation, or Azure Administrator Associate.
• Ability to attain relevant security clearance (SC clearance).
• Working knowledge of HA, DR, and N+1 enterprise architecture.
• Excellent organisational, prioritisation, and time management skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to research and recommend solutions for technical issues.
• Must stay current with IT technologies, solutions, and best practices.
• Working experience with Azure cloud platforms.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical details to a non‑technical audience.
• Desirable: certification in CCNA, MCSE, VCP Datacentre, or Azure Architect.
• Desirable: experience with SQL and clusters.
• Desirable: SAN and storage management experience.
• Desirable: Windows Cluster management experience.
• Desirable: administration of load balancers.
• Desirable: knowledge of infrastructure and application security.

Responsibilities

• Work with and be part of the infrastructure team to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• Implement, manage, and support internal IT infrastructure at an enterprise level.
• Proactively support the business and ensure hardware and software systems are patched and up to date.
• Use the company ticketing system daily to respond to, communicate, and document incidents, problems, and service requests in a timely and professional manner.
• Create, update, and maintain installation, implementation, maintenance, and configuration documentation as needed.
• Support the wider business by ensuring system performance, uptime, customer SLAs, and internal metrics are met.
• Abide by and comply with company compliance standards, policies, guidelines, and procedures.
• Support multiple environments, including on‑prem office, datacentre, virtual environments, networks, physical, and cloud solutions as required.
• Participate in paid out‑of‑hours support as part of the on‑call rota.
• Travel occasionally between offices and datacentres.
• Use expertise with Windows Servers, Azure cloud, VMware hypervisors, and SAN storage to maintain business continuity.
• Take part in incident escalations to recover or prevent business disruptions.
• Proactively assist in capacity, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.

Technologies

• Active Directory
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• Hardware
• Support
• SQL
• Security
• VMware
• Windows
• DevOps

More

We are a UK-based consulting company offering an exciting opportunity for an Infrastructure Engineer to join our infrastructure team. The role is based in Swinton, Manchester, with potential for hybrid working. We offer a salary of £45,000–£50,000 per annum, along with a pension and 24 days holiday. You will work across multi‑site infrastructure on‑premises and potentially in the cloud, supporting a wide range of enterprise environments and contributing to the stability, performance, and continuity of our business systems.

last updated 28 week of 2026

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