Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Manpower Group (UK); United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ManpowerGroup (UK) invites applications for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own and evolve critical IT infrastructure across multiple UK & Ireland locations. The role focuses on high availability, resilience, security, and performance across virtualization, compute, storage, and backup platforms.

You will collaborate with global IT teams and stakeholders, provide technical leadership, and mentor engineers while driving improvements and transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Strong enterprise infrastructure experience within complex IT environments.
• Expertise in Microsoft 365, Windows Server, Active Directory, Azure AD, VMware, and enterprise networking.
• Experience with backup, disaster recovery, storage, and data protection solutions.
• ITIL Foundation (or equivalent experience).

Responsibilities

• Leading enterprise infrastructure services across multiple sites.
• Managing virtualization, compute, storage, backup, and recovery platforms.
• Providing technical leadership and senior-level escalation support.
• Driving infrastructure improvements, resilience, and performance optimisation.
• Supporting cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and business continuity initiatives.
• Mentoring engineers and contributing to infrastructure projects and transformation programmes.

Skills

Microsoft 365

Windows Server

Active Directory

Azure AD

Enterprise networking

ITIL Foundation

Stakeholder management

Technical leadership

Tools

VMware

Backup solutions

Storage management

Job description

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Location: UK & Ireland (Multi-site Travel Required)
12-Month FTC

Are you an experienced infrastructure engineer looking to take technical ownership of a complex enterprise environment? We're recruiting a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to support and enhance critical IT infrastructure across multiple UK & Ireland locations, ensuring high availability, resilience, security, and performance.

Working closely with business stakeholders, global IT teams, and external partners, you'll play a key role in delivering infrastructure solutions that support both commercial and manufacturing operations.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading enterprise infrastructure services across multiple sites.
• Managing virtualisation, compute, storage, backup, and recovery platforms.
• Providing technical leadership and senior-level escalation support.
• Driving infrastructure improvements, resilience, and performance optimisation.
• Supporting cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and business continuity initiatives.
• Mentoring engineers and contributing to infrastructure projects and transformation programmes.

What We're Looking For

• Strong enterprise infrastructure experience within complex IT environments.
• Expertise in Microsoft 365, Windows Server, Active Directory, Azure AD, VMware, and enterprise networking.
• Experience with backup, disaster recovery, storage, and data protection solutions.
• ITIL Foundation (or equivalent experience).
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Technical leadership experience and a passion for mentoring others.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel between company locations.

Why Apply?

• Technical ownership of a business-critical infrastructure environment.
• Exposure to modern enterprise technologies and transformation projects.
• Opportunity to influence infrastructure strategy and service improvement.
• Career development within a global organisation.

If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.