Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Armstrong Talent Partners

Blantyre

On-site

GBP 60,000 - 90,000

Full time

36 hours ago

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Job summary

Armstrong Talent Partners is recruiting a hands-on infrastructure generalist for a fast-growing technology company in Scotland. You will work across virtualisation, compute, storage, network and backup to deliver customer and internal projects.

Role requires comfort with unfamiliar tech, excellent communication, and a pragmatic approach to automation. You will help design a next-generation cloud/HPC platform and support live production environments.

Qualifications

Hands-on across virtualization, compute, storage and networking in production environments.
Ability to learn unfamiliar technologies and lab-test before delivering.
Strong communication to customers and non-technical colleagues.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and support virtualisation, compute, storage, network and backup infra across data centres.
Deliver customer projects end-to-end from scoping to handover.
Deliver internal infra projects to improve platforms, resilience and efficiency.
Automate repetitive build/config tasks.
Contribute to future cloud/HPC platform architecture.
Troubleshoot cross-domain issues from switch to application.
Maintain clear documentation and as-built records.
Provide escalation support.

Skills

VMware vSphere/ESXi

Hyper-V

Fortinet FortiGate

Cisco switching/routing

NetApp/Storage

Scripting/Automation

OpenStack or KVM

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps (Argo CD/Flux)

GPU/HPC infrastructure

Observability stack

Automating build/config

Tools

OpenStack

KVM-based hypervisors

Argo CD

Flux

Grafana

Prometheus

Zabbix

Nagios

Job description

The client is the fastest growing technology company in Scotland, with plans to deploy and invest over £2 billion in the coming years. You would be joining at a relatively early stage of that trajectory. For the right person, this is a chance to build something from the ground up inside a business that is scaling fast.

About the Role

You will be an infrastructure generalist working across a broad range of technologies to deliver both customer and internal projects. One day you might be building out a virtualisation cluster for a customer, the next you could be troubleshooting a storage replication issue, hardening a firewall estate, or automating a build process that currently takes hours.

This is a wide role rather than a narrow one. We are looking for someone who enjoys breadth, is comfortable being the person who picks up an unfamiliar technology and works it out, and who wants to keep learning. You will be given the time, support and opportunity to develop into new areas.

Alongside business-as-usual project delivery, you will contribute to the design and build of next-generation cloud and HPC platform, the infrastructure that will underpin our AI and high-performance computing services for years to come. It is a rare chance to help shape a platform from the ground up rather than inherit someone else's.

About You

The successful candidate will be comfortable with breadth and happy to move between technologies rather than specialise. They will be curious, preferring to understand why something broke rather than just restart it, and pragmatic about automation, automating what's genuinely worth automating rather than automating for its own sake. They will also be a clear communicator, able to explain technical detail to both customers and non-technical colleagues, and capable of working independently on project delivery while knowing when to ask for input.

What You'll Be Doing

Designing, building, and supporting virtualisation, compute, storage, network and backup infrastructure across our data centres
Delivering customer projects end to end, from scoping and design through to build, migration and handover
Delivering internal infrastructure projects that improve our platforms, resilience and efficiency
Automating repetitive build and configuration work rather than doing it by hand twice
Contributing to the architecture and build of future cloud and HPC platform
Troubleshooting complex, cross-domain issues where the cause could sit anywhere between the switch port and the application
Producing and maintaining clear documentation and as-built records
Providing escalation support to colleagues
VMware - vSphere/ESXi in production, including cluster build and lifecycle management
Hyper-V - build, configuration and day-to-day operation
Fortinet - FortiGate firewalls and wider Fortinet product set
Cisco - switching and routing in a data centre or enterprise environment
Storage - NetApp or comparable enterprise storage platforms (SAN/NAS, replication, snapshots)
Scripting and automation — strong practical ability in at least one of: PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible or Terraform
Backup - Cohesity or comparable enterprise backup and recovery software
Server estates – HPE/Dell/Cisco/Lenovo hardware management.
Observability — hands-on experience across the monitoring stack:
Metrics collection (Zabbix, Prometheus, Nagios or similar)
Log collection and aggregation (Graylog, Loki, Logstash or similar)
Visualisation and dashboarding (Grafana, Kibana or similar)
Working with technologies you have never seen before — a track record of being handed something unfamiliar and getting to a working result: reading the documentation, building a lab, testing your assumptions and asking the right questions. This is a core part of the job, not a nice-to-have

We don't expect you to be an expert in all of the above. What matters is that you're genuinely hands-on across most of it, and comfortable working in a live production environment.

Working with agentic AI tooling (Claude Code, Codex or similar) as part of day-to-day engineering
OpenStack or other KVM-based hypervisor platforms
CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code workflows
GitOps and continuous delivery tooling (Argo CD, Flux or similar)
GPU and HPC infrastructure, including high-density and liquid-cooled environments

If you tick a lot of the desirable list but only some of the essential, apply anyway. That's where our platform is heading, and we'd rather hire for that strength and fill gaps than the reverse. Tell us in your application what you have and what you'd need to pick up.