Remote Infrastructure Engineer — Migration Specialist

TXP; Greater London; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

TXP is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to support a large-scale programme moving applications and services from legacy into cloud and managed hosting environments. The role is hands-on with a focus on safe, structured migration and minimal disruption to live services.

The contract is 6 months with scope to extend, Inside IR35, predominantly remote, paying £500 per day. You will work across development, test and production to coordinate migrations, apply migration patterns, and collaborate

Qualifications

• Strong infrastructure engineering or systems-administration background with hands-on delivery experience.
• Experience supporting application, infrastructure or hosting migrations.
• Solid understanding of Linux and/or Windows systems, networking and environment configuration.
• Ability to work across multiple environments and apply controlled change safely.
• Experience supporting live services in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience troubleshooting infrastructure, configuration and connectivity issues.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively across technical teams.
• Pragmatic and delivery focused, with the ability to work with legacy technology and incomplete information.

Responsibilities

• Support the migration of applications and services from legacy applications into target hosting environments.
• Apply established migration approaches and patterns to individual services.
• Support service discovery, dependency mapping and environment readiness.
• Work across development, test and production environments to coordinate migration activity.
• Complete infrastructure and configuration changes required to support migration.
• Help re-establish and validate connectivity, including network, firewall and service dependencies.
• Support rehearsals, cutovers, smoke testing and post-migration validation.
• Identify risks, support mitigations and contribute to rollback planning where required.
• Collaborate with architects, application teams, platform teams, security specialists and service SMEs to unblock delivery.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Migration experience

Linux/Windows

Networking

Cross-team communication

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

VMware

Job description

TXP is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to support a large-scale programme moving applications and services from legacy into cloud and managed hosting environments. The role is hands-on with a focus on safe, structured migration and minimal disruption to live services.

The contract is 6 months with scope to extend, Inside IR35, predominantly remote, paying £500 per day. You will work across development, test and production to coordinate migrations, apply migration patterns, and collaborate