Senior Infrastructure and Cloud Migration Engineer

Xpertise Recruitment; Wakefield; A distancia; GBP 101.000 - 138.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Xpertise Recruitment is seeking a Senior Infrastructure and Cloud Migration Engineer for a 4–6 month contract. The role focuses on upgrading legacy infrastructure, enhancing cloud services, and leading migration activities with travel to Yorkshire optional.

The candidate will support internal IT and Platform teams, modernize AWS and on‑prem servers, and improve security and documentation across the estate.

Formación

• Strong hands-on AWS infrastructure and security experience.
• Experience with Windows Server, Linux, AD and Azure AD/Entra.
• VMware, virtualization, and network infrastructure know-how.
• Server migrations, rebuilding, and modernization experience.
• Security hardening and Defender usage.

Responsabilidades

• Assess existing infrastructure and identify systems for upgrade, rebuild or migration.
• Support rebuilding and modernization of AWS and on-prem servers.
• Improve infrastructure security, including hardening, access controls and patching.
• Plan phased migrations of critical systems with minimal disruption.
• Collaborate with IT, Security and Platform (DevOps) teams for stable, secure, documented systems.
• Provide knowledge transfer and handover to permanent team.

Conocimientos

AWS Infrastructure

Server Virtualization

Security Hardening

Windows Server

Linux

Azure AD / Entra

Herramientas

VMware

Descripción del empleo

Senior Infrastructure and Cloud Migration Engineer

Remote (if can travel to Yorkshire 1 day per week then that is ideal)

I'm seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Migration Engineer for an initial 4–6-month contract with a possible quick start.

The candidate will support the internal IT and Platform team with a program to modernise legacy infrastructure, upgrade servers, improve cloud services, and support migration activities.

Key responsibilities:

• Assess existing infrastructure and identify systems requiring upgrades, rebuilding or migration.
• Support the rebuilding and modernisation of AWS and on-premises servers.
• Improve infrastructure security, including server hardening, access controls, patching and endpoint protection.
• Plan and deliver phased migrations of business-critical systems while minimising disruption.
• Work closely with our internal IT, Security and Platform (DevOps) teams to ensure systems are stable, secure and properly documented.
• Provide knowledge transfer and handover to the permanent team.

Essential skills and experience:

• Strong hands-on AWS infrastructure and security experience, including EC2, IAM and networking.
• Windows Server, Linux, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and Microsoft Entra Domain Services (Azure AD DS).
• VMware, virtualisation and network infrastructure.
• Server migrations, infrastructure rebuilding and modernisation.
• Security hardening, Microsoft Defender and infrastructure security best practices.