Infrastructure Engineer

Zonal; Stanley; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology provider in the hospitality industry is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to ensure operational excellence in their infrastructure. This role involves building relationships with teams, implementing scalable solutions, and contributing to strategic projects. Ideal candidates will have experience with VMware infrastructure and a passion for technology innovation.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Family-oriented culture

Opportunity to shape company culture

Qualifications

• At least 3 years in a fast-paced engineering or infrastructure team.
• Experience in hypervisors other than VMware is a plus.
• Administrative experience in Pure Storage and Veeam is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with architects and engineering teams.
• Implement and maintain secure and scalable infrastructure.
• Contribute to a culture of automation and documentation.
• Participate in on-call cover and Incident Response.

Skills

3 years+ experience in design and build of management of scalable, highly available VMware infrastructure

Hands-on administration of enterprise storage and datacentre infrastructure

Experience managing Disaster Recovery and Data Protection models

Documenting solutions, specifications and high-level architectures

Hands on experience in datacentre operations and logistics

PowerShell / PowerCLI and tooling in provisioning scenarios

Quick to spot opportunities for new capabilities

Self-starter with a passion for technology

Solid organisation and attention to detail

Job description

Overview

Vacancy Name: Infrastructure Engineer

Vacancy No: VN137

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Hybrid Tanfield

Description

We are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer, someone who can deliver operational excellence and stability in our virtual and storage infrastructure that underpins the Managed Services we deliver for our customers. As well as the day-to-day you will also be able to influence the design and delivery of our next generation hybrid cloud products and contribute to the delivery of cross functional strategic projects. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a wider technical team that will help define the future of hospitality both in the UK and abroad.

Responsibilities

• Build strong, collaborative relationships with architects, operations and engineering teams
• Implement and maintain secure, scalable and highly available datacentre, storage and virtual infrastructure
• Build and continually improve tooling, monitoring and security controls
• Own the infrastructure aspects within DR plans and processes
• Establish and maintain patching and release patterns, hardware lifecycles and procedures
• Contribute to a culture where automate, tool and document is the norm
• Participate in on-call cover and Incident Response
• Play a key role in change management

Who you are

You should have had a background in datacentre or enterprise level hardware, virtual and storage platforms having spent at least some of your career as a member of a fast-paced engineering or infrastructure team:

Essential skills

• 3 years+ experience in design and build of management of scalable, highly available VMware infrastructure
• Hands-on administration of enterprise storage and datacentre infrastructure
• Experience managing Disaster Recovery and Data Protection models
• Documenting solutions, specifications and high-level architectures
• Hands on experience in datacentre operations and logistics (racking, cabling, power management), and capacity management
• PowerShell / PowerCLI and tooling in complex provisioning and deployment scenarios
• Quick to spot opportunities in new capabilities, a fast learner who thrives with autonomy
• A self-starter with a passion for technology and problem solving
• Solid organisation, with a safe pair of hands with attention to detail

Desirable

Experience with other hypervisors (other than VMware); Administrative experience in Pure Storage; Administrative experience in Veeam; Experience in a Managed Services Provider (MSP), multi-tenanted or multi-site environment; Based around central belt Scotland for on site attendance.

What we value

Teamwork, Passion, Innovation and Professionalism are the values we believe make us the company we are. We are looking for someone who understands great culture and will help us shape it as it evolves.

About Zonal

The Zonal group are one of the UK's largest technology providers to the hospitality industry. Our products are used by over 17,000 pubs, restaurants and hotels. Customers include national brands like Pizza Express, Greene King, Harvester and Butlins.

We provide our customers with the solutions they need to make their business a success. These solutions include mobile apps for ordering and web apps for engaging with consumers either through loyalty or reservations. By linking these solutions to Zonal's EPoS (till) system, we help hospitality brands to understand their customers\' behaviour and preferences, enabling them to excel in an increasingly competitive market.

If you have booked a table or hotel room, ordered, and paid for food and drinks, received loyalty offers, or downloaded your favourite hang out's app, you will likely have used a Zonal product.

We are a family business with Scottish roots. We operate from our head office in Edinburgh, our Midlands office in Staffordshire, and our Innovation Centre in Abingdon.

What we value

Passion, Teamwork, Innovation, Professionalism, Accountability and Customer Obsessed are the values we believe make us the company we are. We\'re looking for someone who understands great culture and will help us shape it as it evolves.

Smart, inspiring, forward-thinking people who thrive on building solutions for complex problems. We are very much a family company not just in name. Zonal people work together and look out for each other. Trusted to be accountable, you\'ll find that everyone around you shares a passion for delivering value to our customers and striving to always do better. We provide a flexible working environment with a culture to help everyone achieve their best.