Infrastructure Specialist

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 73,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension (up to 15%)

Annual bonus

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave

Job summary

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd is recruiting an Infrastructure Specialist to transform our technology delivery by modernising and rationalising our infrastructure landscape. You will assess, validate and decommission legacy components while guiding engineers and stakeholders through remediation plans.

You will work across complex environments, optimise performance and drive cost savings, ensuring governance, resilience and regulatory compliance are met in a large enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience across multiple infrastructure tech stacks.
• Good understanding of Jira Align and agile methodologies.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities across many technologies.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience supporting and managing large enterprise infrastructure platforms.

Responsibilities

• Transform and modernise technology estate, rationalise legacy infrastructure.
• Investigate servers, storage, networks, databases and middleware to identify dependencies.
• Assess readiness for migration, modernisation or retirement and manage risk.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects and business stakeholders to plan remediation.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities through infrastructure rationalisation and continuous improvement.

Skills

Infrastructure expertise

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Performance tuning

Analytical thinking

Adaptability

Tools

Jira Align

Job description

JOB TITLE: Infrastructure Specialist SALARY: £72,702 - £80,780 LOCATION(S): Halifax, Leeds or Manchester HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) at one of above office locations.

Please note that participation in an on-call rota is also a requirement of this role.

What you'll be doing We're transforming the way we deliver technology, building cloud platforms that are secure, resilient and seamless for our customers, while creating a modern, efficient and sustainable engineering experience for our colleagues.

You'll help drive the simplification and modernisation of our technology estate by assessing, rationalising and retiring legacy infrastructure.

Working across complex environments, you'll investigate servers, storage, networks, databases and middleware to identify dependencies, validate ownership, and uncover opportunities for decommissioning and optimisation.

Supporting strategic data centre exit and consolidation programmes, you'll assess infrastructure readiness for migration, modernisation or retirement, helping to manage risks and minimise service impacts.

You'll work closely with engineers, architects, service owners and business stakeholders to validate findings, agree remediation plans and ensure activities are delivered in line with governance, resilience and regulatory requirements.

You'll also play an important role in identifying cost‑saving opportunities through infrastructure rationalisation, tracking benefits realised and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives that support the wider transformation agenda.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and delivering meaningful change across large‑scale enterprise environments.

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good.

We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

What we're looking for Extensive experience of multiple technology stacks in an infrastructure-based position Good understanding of Jira Align and agile methodologies Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and work across a broad range of technologies in a fast-paced environment Good stakeholder management You'll should be able to demonstrate experience in: Supporting and managing enterprise infrastructure platforms Agile ways of working Performance tuning and optimisation Analytical, problem‑solving and communication skills Any experience of these would be really useful: Experience working with regulated or financial services environments Experience of large-scale data analysis Strong understanding of data centre architecture, infrastructure components and operational dependencies.

This is a place for you Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns.

And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers.

Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide‑ranging benefits package, which includes: A generous pension contribution of up to 15% An annual performance related bonus Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies Ready to make an impact?