Role: Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Bolton
Work Pattern: In Office
Salary: £45,000-£70,000
This is a fully in office role, and the candidate must have a driving licence.
This company are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer with a strong foundation in Linux systems and networking to take ownership of core platform operations.
The company is flexible regarding the level of experience for this role, offering significant growth opportunities for junior candidates while also providing engaging and challenging work for more senior professionals.
You will be responsible for the day-to-day engineering, optimisation, and support of infrastructure platforms, with a primary focus on Linux-based systems and network architecture.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, optimise, and secure Linux-based systems, including system tuning, patching, performance optimisation, and troubleshooting complex issues.
- Design, configure, and maintain network infrastructure (VLANs, VPNs, routing, firewalling), ensuring secure, resilient, and high-performance connectivity across data centre and on-premise environments.
- Build and maintain virtualised platforms, managing compute, storage, and network resources to support scalable, high-performance workloads.
- Manage system reliability, uptime, and capacity planning, alongside maintaining backup and disaster recovery processes.
- Automate infrastructure and operational workflows using Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Contribute to monitoring, logging, and alerting improvements to enhance visibility and system reliability.
Skills & Experience
Essential:
- Strong Linux systems administration experience.
- Solid networking knowledge (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, firewalls, routing).
- Experience troubleshooting complex system and network issues.
- Experience managing infrastructure in on-premise or hybrid environments.
- Familiarity with virtualisation technologies.
Desirable:
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
- Exposure to containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Basic experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Familiarity with monitoring/observability tooling.
- Scripting (Bash, Python, or similar).
Why Apply?
- Opportunity to work on high-performance infrastructure.
- High level of ownership and technical responsibility.
- Broad exposure across systems, networking, and virtualisation.
- Competitive salary and growth opportunities.
If you are interested, please apply now.