Interim Infrastructure Engineer

Castle Employment Agency Ltd; Lund; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An employment agency is seeking an Interim Infrastructure Engineer based in Brandsburton, UK. The ideal candidate will manage and improve both on-premise and cloud infrastructure while ensuring stability and security during a critical growth phase. With strong networking, cloud, and SQL knowledge, the candidate should be proactive and able to deliver immediate results. This is a full-time, on-site position with an interim day rate.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in infrastructure within manufacturing or engineering environments.
• Ability to balance operational support and project priorities.
• Proactive and technically strong with minimal handover.

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Oversee email and backup environments for strong recovery.
• Deliver short-term improvement projects.

Skills

BAU experience in manufacturing

Confidence in infrastructure project delivery

Networking knowledge

Cloud expertise

SQL knowledge

Microsoft 365 familiarity

Job description

Interim Infrastructure Engineer

Are you an experienced Infrastructure Engineer available for an interim assignment, with the ability to hit the ground running and support a busy manufacturing environment? Based in Brandsburton East Yorkshire, supporting a business going through a key period of growth and change. You’ll provide hands on expertise across their core infrastructure, ensuring resilience, security, and continuity during a high demand phase.

Key responsibilities

• Managing and improving on premise and cloud based infrastructure, including networks, servers, and storage.
• Administration of Windows and *Nix servers, covering configuration, maintenance, and optimisation.
• Overseeing email, messaging, and backup environments, ensuring strong recovery capabilities.
• Maintaining and tuning Oracle SQL databases to ensure performance and data integrity.
• Supporting application management, configuration, and upgrades across the business.
• Strengthening system security and ensuring controls remain aligned to current threats.
• Contributing to disaster recovery planning and automation of routine tasks.
• Providing 3rd line support for critical systems, ensuring minimal downtime.

BAU and Project Delivery

Alongside day to day support, you’ll also take responsibility for delivering short term improvement projects, including infrastructure upgrades, optimisation work, security enhancement, and streamlining systems and processes. The business needs an engineer who can keep operations stable while pushing projects forward with pace.

What they’re looking for

• Strong BAU experience, ensuring stability, uptime, and smooth operations in fast paced manufacturing settings.
• Confidence owning and delivering infrastructure projects from planning through to implementation.
• Ability to balance immediate operational support with project priorities.
• Proven experience in infrastructure within manufacturing or engineering environments.
• Strong networking, cloud, virtualisation, storage, SQL and Microsoft 365 knowledge.
• Someone proactive, technically strong, and able to step in with minimal handover.

Contract details

• Interim day rate position.
• Full time, on site, Brandsburton based.
• Immediate or short notice start preferred.

If you’re a hands on Infrastructure Engineer who can deliver impact quickly while balancing BAU and project activity, I’d like to speak with you.