Senior Infra Engineer: Hyper-V, Cisco & SolarWinds (Onsite)

Hitachi, Ltd.; Sunderland; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Digital Services is seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead the optimisation, maintenance and reliability of core IT infrastructure at the Nissan Sunderland plant. You will be the Tier 3 escalation point, ensuring high availability in a fast‑paced manufacturing environment and supporting Hyper‑V, Cisco networking, and SolarWinds monitoring.

The role requires a strong virtualization background, enterprise monitoring experience, and willingness to work onsite five

Qualifications

• Expert‑level Hyper‑V administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with failover clustering and virtual switch configuration.
• Strong Cisco networking experience, including routing, switching, firewalls, and wireless technologies.
• Hands‑on administration of SolarWinds (NPM, SAM).
• Minimum 5 years' experience in an enterprise infrastructure, network, or systems engineering role.

Responsibilities

• Manage, optimise, and maintain virtualised environments and server infrastructure to ensure maximum uptime for production operations.
• Act as the Tier 3 escalation point for critical infrastructure issues, including Hyper‑V diagnostics, failover clustering, and storage performance tuning.
• Support advanced routing, switching, networking, and security troubleshooting activities.
• Manage network segmentation, VLAN configuration across core and access switching infrastructure.
• Assist with configuration, monitoring, and administration of Cisco firewalls and wireless environments.
• Own and develop the enterprise monitoring platform using SolarWinds, including alerting, dashboards, and reporting.
• Provide onsite production support and participate in planned maintenance outside normal hours.

Skills

Hyper‑V administration

Failover clustering

Cisco networking

SolarWinds

Production environment support

Tools

Hyper‑V

SolarWinds

Job description

Hitachi Digital Services is seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead the optimisation, maintenance and reliability of core IT infrastructure at the Nissan Sunderland plant. You will be the Tier 3 escalation point, ensuring high availability in a fast‑paced manufacturing environment and supporting Hyper‑V, Cisco networking, and SolarWinds monitoring.

The role requires a strong virtualization background, enterprise monitoring experience, and willingness to work onsite five