Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Onsite, Hyper-V & Cisco

HITACHI ENERGY CZECH REPUBLIC S.R.O.; Sunderland; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

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. In this role, the successful candidate will serve as the primary technical escalation point for complex system and network issues, ensuring high availability across a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong blend of virtualisation expertise, enterprise monitoring management, and

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience in an enterprise infrastructure, network, or systems engineering role.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, shopfloor, or managed services environments is highly desirable.

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 administration

Failover clustering

Cisco networking

SolarWinds administration

On-call support

On-site presence

Tools

SolarWinds NPM

SolarWinds SAM

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. In this role, the successful candidate will serve as the primary technical escalation point for complex system and network issues, ensuring high availability across a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong blend of virtualisation expertise, enterprise monitoring management, and