Infrastructure Engineer

NPR Recruit; Stockport; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global engineering business in the UK is looking for an Infrastructure Specialist for a hybrid role. The successful candidate will support daily operations, oversee project work, and troubleshoot issues. Essential skills include configuration automation with Ansible, expertise in Linux, and cloud services like AWS/Azure. A minimum of 3 years of experience is required, along with strong communication skills and a willingness to travel. This position offers benefits including a personal pension plan and 33 days of holiday.

Benefits

Incentive schemes

10% personal pension plan

33 days holiday

Private health scheme

Opportunity for international travel

Life assurance x 6

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years experience required.
• Willingness to communicate with customers and provide timely feedback.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues.

Responsibilities

• Support daily operations and customer requests.
• Oversee and improve infrastructure performance.
• Monitor servers and proactively identify issues.
• Manage monitoring solutions and ensure backed up servers.

Skills

Fluent in English (both spoken and written)

A team player with a desire to learn and teach

Good communication skills

Willingness to travel

Education

Good degree level in any technical discipline or equivalent experience

Tools

Ansible

Linux

AWS/Azure/GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Nagios

Grafana

Prometheus

Vmware

Job description

An excellent opportunity for an Infrastructure Specialist (Hybrid) to join a leading global engineering Business with continuous development and training.

As an Infrastructure Specialist, you will be responsible for the daily support of our customers.

The role will involve mainly project work plus technical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues, and be responsible for escalations within the team, for satisfactory resolution.

Benefits

• Incentive schemes designed to reward individual contribution and performance
• 10% personal pension plan
• 33 days holiday
• Private Health Scheme (non-contributory for employees)
• Opportunity for international travel
• Life assurance x 6

The Role

• Participation in the design, tender, procurement and delivery phases of new projects.
• Participation in the installation/configuration of infrastructure for new customers, and the improvement/enhancement of existing customer deployments.
• To oversee the performance of the infrastructure across the infrastructure managed services customer base and internally.
• To monitor the performance of the servers, proactively identify issues/abnormalities that may pose a threat to the customer's service.
• Review performance logs, analysing the performance, identifying trends, patterns and detecting irregular behaviour.
• Managing the monitoring solutions-setting up, updating, enhancing, and modifying the parameters as the infrastructure and systems are updated and upgraded.
• Ensuring that the servers are backed up, security measures are in place, and that there is an automatic failover in the case of any server downtime.
• Proactively and reactively applying vulnerability patches to managed sites.
• Communicate with the customer regarding any underlying issue and provide timely feedback
• To support to colleagues through knowledge sharing and promoting knowledge sharing initiatives.

Essential Skills

• Fluent in English (both spoken and written)
• A team player with a desire to learn more and train others.
• A willing communicator
• Qualified to a good degree level in any technical discipline (or to be able to show that you now possess these skills through extended experience)
• A willingness to travel to visit customer sites
• Driving License

Technical Skills

• Configuration automation with Ansible
• Linux, preferably Redhat/Centos
• Good Network skills (Firewalls & Switches)
• AWS/Azure/GCP
• Containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker
• Nagios
• Grafana and or Prometheus
• Vmware

Experience

Minimum 3 years