Senior Infrastructure Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the IT sector is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join their growing team in Liverpool. This hands-on role involves supporting both on-premises and cloud (Azure) platforms, ensuring secure and high-performing infrastructure. The position includes leading technical initiatives and collaborating with various teams to maintain best practices. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in IT Infrastructure, specifically with Microsoft Azure and 4+ years of relevant experience.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance – starting at 31 days, rising with service

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Life assurance & flexible benefits platform

Mental health and wellbeing support

Company pension scheme

Access to early wage via Dayforce Wallet

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years' experience in IT Infrastructure, with at least 1 in a senior capacity.
• Strong background in server, storage, network, and cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical lead within the infrastructure team.
• Design, implement, and support resilient hybrid infrastructure solutions.
• Support incident response and perform root cause analysis.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Office 365

VMware

Hyper-V

Microsoft Windows Server

Linux

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Hybrid – Liverpool

Salary: £55,000 DOE

We are currently seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join a growing IT Infrastructure team based in Liverpool. This is a hands-on, multi-disciplinary technical role supporting the Head of Infrastructure and project teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing on-prem and cloud (Azure) platforms.

You'll play a key role in the continued development and evolution of infrastructure services across both data centre and cloud environments, while also helping shape best practices and technical standards across the team.

Benefits Include:

• Generous holiday allowance – starting at 31 days, rising with service
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Life assurance & flexible benefits platform
• Mental health and wellbeing support (counselling, CBT, 24/7 helpline)
• Company pension scheme
• Access to early wage via Dayforce Wallet

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Act as a technical lead within the infrastructure team, promoting engineering best practices and knowledge sharing.
• Design, implement, and support resilient hybrid infrastructure solutions across Azure and traditional platforms.
• Collaborate with DevOps, SecOps, and development teams to support deployments and maintain secure, reliable environments.
• Support incident response and perform root cause analysis of infrastructure-related issues.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Lead infrastructure product evaluations and take part in implementing new technologies.
• Ensure solutions are aligned to the wider IT strategy and roadmap.

What We’re Looking For:

• Minimum 4 years' experience in IT Infrastructure, with at least 1 year in a senior or lead capacity.
• Strong background in server, storage, network, and cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including designing and supporting cloud environments.
• Knowledge of Office 365 tools including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, Intune, and hybrid setups.
• Proactive mindset with excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Working knowledge of ITIL practices is .

Desirable Technical Stack:

• LAN/WAN/DNS networking
• Microsoft Windows Server & Linux administration
• Azure IaaS & PaaS services
• Office 365 & Intune
• Security tools and vulnerability remediation
• Virtualisation (VMware/Hyper-V)

If you’re keen on getting your details over to me for the Infrastructure Engineer role, please apply directly with your CV or contact abbey.mcdonnell @maxwellbond.co.uk or reach me on 0161 840 1025