Senior Infrastructure Engineer

The Granite Group; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the insurance sector is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join their IT infrastructure team in Liverpool. This hands-on role involves supporting the Head of Infrastructure Services and project managers in delivering robust and secure infrastructure platforms, including data center and Azure Cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in infrastructure technologies, strong troubleshooting skills, and a proactive approach to maintaining best practices.

Benefits

Enhanced leave

Wellbeing programs

Pension

Flexible benefits

Recognition awards

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years' infrastructure experience, with at least 1 year in a senior or support lead role.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure and infrastructure automation tools.
• Working knowledge of ITIL processes and ability to communicate IT issues to non-IT stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical evaluation and deployment of infrastructure products.
• Develop, test, and manage disaster recovery plans.
• Support project, development, DevOps, and SecOps teams for deployments.

Skills

Networking

Cloud Infrastructure

Security Technologies

Infrastructure Automation

Proactive Troubleshooting

Tools

PowerShell

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Hands-on multi-disciplined technical role within the IT infrastructure team, supporting the Head of Infrastructure Services and project managers in delivering robust, performant, resilient, and recoverable infrastructure platforms; Data centre and Azure Cloud. Supporting the technical development of the internal infrastructure team, maintaining infrastructure best practices and standards, and ensuring all platforms are secure and meet legislative compliance requirements.

Title:

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Location:

Liverpool

Salary:

up to £50,000 depending on experience

Working Hours:

37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, covering hours 08:00 to 17:30 on a rolling rota basis

What you will be doing:

1. A technical lead within the infrastructure team, supporting the promotion of technical excellence and leading knowledge transfer of new solutions.
2. Bring broad knowledge of traditional and cloud infrastructure technologies, processes, and best practices; stay updated on technological enhancements beneficial to the business.
3. Support project, development, DevOps, and SecOps teams for deployments, management, and maintenance.
4. Develop, test, and manage disaster recovery plans, ensuring operational resilience.
5. Provide expertise and support within the incident response process.
6. Lead technical evaluation and deployment of infrastructure products.
7. Contribute to technical design and industry best practices.
8. Collaborate with the Infrastructure Team Manager to deliver cost-effective solutions aligned with IT strategy.
9. Work with SecOps engineers to remediate vulnerabilities.

What we are looking for:

• Minimum 4 years' infrastructure experience, with at least 1 year in a senior or support lead role.
• Experience with network, server, storage, and security technologies.
• Mentoring or team supervision experience is advantageous.
• Practical experience with cloud infrastructure, especially Microsoft Azure.
• Familiarity with Office 365, security, and hybrid Exchange environments.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools like PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform.
• Ability to develop and document technical designs.
• Proactive troubleshooting skills and ability to communicate IT issues to non-IT stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of ITIL processes.
• Experience in network technologies, cloud computing, IaC, security, Windows Server, Linux, Kubernetes, DevOps, and virtualization.

About Acorn Insurance:

With over 40 years of experience, Acorn Insurance provides motor insurance across the UK, serving over 50,000 customers. We offer comprehensive training, foster diversity, and are recognized as a Great Place to Work for 2024/5.

Why Join Us?

We offer benefits including enhanced leave, wellbeing programs, pension, flexible benefits, recognition awards, and more. We are committed to an inclusive environment and consider reasonable adjustments for applicants.

Note: Applications require at least one year remaining on your visa; we do not sponsor visas. All roles are subject to DBS and financial checks.