Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Hyper-V & Cisco (Onsite)

Hitachi Digital Services, LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite role at Nissan Sunderland

On-call rota

Overtime support

Job summary

Hitachi Digital Services is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead the optimisation, maintenance, and reliability of core IT infrastructure at the Nissan Sunderland plant. You will be the primary technical escalation point for complex system and network issues in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

The role requires strong Hyper-V and Cisco networking expertise, plus hands-on SolarWinds administration and experience supporting critical production environments.

Qualifications

• Expert-level Hyper-V administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with failover clustering and virtual switch configuration.
• Strong Cisco networking experience, including routing, switching, firewalls, and wireless technologies.
• Hands-on administration of SolarWinds (NPM, SAM).
• Minimum 5 years' experience in an enterprise infrastructure, network, or systems engineering role.

Responsibilities

• Manage, optimise, and maintain virtualised environments and server infrastructure to ensure maximum uptime for production operations.
• Act as the Tier 3 escalation point for critical infrastructure issues, including complex Hyper-V diagnostics, failover clustering, and storage performance tuning.
• Support advanced routing, switching, networking, and security troubleshooting activities.
• Manage network segmentation requirements, including VLAN configuration changes across core and access switching infrastructure.
• Assist with the configuration, monitoring, and administration of Cisco firewalls and Cisco wireless environments.
• Own and develop the enterprise monitoring platform using SolarWinds, including alerting, dashboards, and reporting.
• Provide onsite production support and participate in planned maintenance activities outside normal working hours.

Skills

Hyper-V

Failover clustering

Cisco networking

SolarWinds

Enterprise monitoring

Tools

Hyper-V Manager

SolarWinds (NPM/SAM)

Cisco routers/switches/firewalls

Job description

Hitachi Digital Services is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead the optimisation, maintenance, and reliability of core IT infrastructure at the Nissan Sunderland plant. You will be the primary technical escalation point for complex system and network issues in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

The role requires strong Hyper-V and Cisco networking expertise, plus hands-on SolarWinds administration and experience supporting critical production environments.