Senior Infrastructure Engineer: On-Prem & Cloud Lead

TipTopJob; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Acorn is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Liverpool City Centre HQ to join a hands-on, multi-disciplinary IT infrastructure team. You will support on-premises and Azure platforms, drive resilience, monitoring, backups and recovery planning, and collaborate across SecOps, Cloud, Development and Projects.

The role emphasizes senior-level technical leadership, deployment, and security compliance within an environment demanding reliability and escalation support.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years infrastructure experience, with minimum of 1yr in a senior capacity or performing senior duties within a team of engineers with a support background.
• Excellent Active Directory and associated services skills
• Experience with broad variety of classic infrastructure disciplines and technologies; Network, Windows Server, Storage, Virtualisation, Security and Mail and associated services and functions
• Experience of team supervision, or mentoring would be an advantage.
• High level of knowledge with Office 365 suite of applications, security, and tools
• Excellent Microsoft Exchange skills, ideally in Hybrid solution
• Previous experience in designing and leading implementation of infrastructure solutions.
• Experience using infrastructure auto:deployment and scripting techniques; PowerShell, Ansible
• Experience of the development of design and documenting technical solutions
• Proactive and logical approach to fault identification, troubleshooting and problem solving.
• Working knowledge of ITIL

Responsibilities

• Be the hands-on technical lead within the infrastructure team, promoting technical excellence and knowledge transfer.
• Drive deployment and management of on-premises infrastructure with monitors, alerts, backups and recovery plans.
• Collaborate with cloud platform team to manage Azure-related aspects.
• Support the delivery of best-in-class 3rd line support, ensuring tickets are handled efficiently within SLA.
• Identify and implement enhancements to deployed infrastructure solutions and adapt to new technologies.
• Work cross-functionally with Project, Development, Cloud Platform and SecOps for new deployments.
• Contribute to disaster recovery planning and maintain operational resilience.
• Lead technical evaluations of infrastructure products and participate in deployments.
• Contribute to the design of best-of-breed infrastructure solutions and security hardening.
• Partner with SecOps to remediate vulnerabilities within remit.

Skills

Active Directory

Office 365

PowerShell

Ansible

Windows Server

Networking

Storage

Virtualisation

Security

ITIL

Tools

Azure

Job description

Acorn is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Liverpool City Centre HQ to join a hands-on, multi-disciplinary IT infrastructure team. You will support on-premises and Azure platforms, drive resilience, monitoring, backups and recovery planning, and collaborate across SecOps, Cloud, Development and Projects.

The role emphasizes senior-level technical leadership, deployment, and security compliance within an environment demanding reliability and escalation support.