Lead Infrastructure Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to drive their AWS cloud transformation. This permanent position in Leeds offers a hybrid working model and responsibilities across project work and third-line support, ensuring alignment and integration of systems while providing technical leadership to the team.

Benefits

Competitive salary with annual reviews

Discretionary profit share scheme

Healthcare benefits

Ongoing professional development

Qualifications

• Excellent understanding of Windows Server and Active Directory.
• Experience in AWS and Cloud environments.
• Ability to lead and mentor IT teams.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design, and implement IT infrastructure solutions.
• Collaborate with IT teams for system integration.
• Provide out of hours support via on-call.

Skills

Administrating Windows Server

Linux Administration

Cloud Platform Support

Automation Tools

Education

Qualifications in Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate

Certification in AWS

Tools

Microsoft SCOM

SCCM

DPM

WSUS

Intune

PowerShell

Ansible

Job description

Job Description

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Permanent, Leeds

Hybrid working - 2 days per week

£60,000 - £70,000 + £5k on-call

Fruition IT have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join an organisation on a 5 year AWS cloud transformation journey.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Why Apply?

This is an excellent opportunity for an Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join a cloud transformation journey to AWS. You'll be working on a mixture of project based work & 3rd line support. The scale of the environment includes 3000 Windows server with a small footprint in Linux.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer - What will I be doing?

• Plan, design, and implement IT infrastructure solutions relating to compute, virtualisation, containerisation (both on-premise & AWS Cloud based), load balancers, primary storage, and backup that meets the business needs and requirements.
• Collaborate with other IT teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment and integration of IT infrastructure with other IT systems and services.
• Provide out of hours support via the On-Call support rota and be prepared for occasional planned out of hours work when expected.
• Provide technical leadership, coach and mentor team members

Assist in managing security by:

• Installing operating systems patches and updates.
• Reviewing logs to investigate unauthorised activity.
• Administration of Active Directory and Group Policy.
• Remediating reported vulnerabilities.

Infrastructure Engineer - What do I need?

• Excellent understanding and experience of administrating Windows Server (including Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP) and Linux (RedHat & Oracle) Operating Systems.
• Skills across Microsoft SCOM, SCCM, DPM, WSUS, Intune, Defender, Patch My PC and Windows Hyper-V for running over 1000 Servers.
• Experience of administering & supporting both on-premise and AWS platforms
• Experience with automation tools like Ansible, Python and PowerShell will be a plus.
• Experience acting as a technical lead, coaching and mentoring team members
• Experience of designing and building solutions

Added bonus:

• Qualifications in Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate or other relevant Microsoft credentials in desirable.
• Certification in AWS desirable (e.,g. Cloud Practitioner and AWS Certified SysOps Administrator)

What's in it for me?

• Hybrid working model (2 days in Leeds office)
• Competitive salary with annual reviews
• Discretionary profit share scheme
• Company benefits package including healthcare
• Ongoing professional development & certified training opportunities
• Exposure to large-scale, enterprise infrastructure and cloud environments

To find out more and explore this opportunity further, please apply and feel free to contact Matt Wood.

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