Senior Infrastructure Engineer Onsite: Hyper-V & Cisco Expert

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Sunderland; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; 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. You will serve as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex system issues, ensuring high availability in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

The role requires expert Hyper-V administration, failover clustering, Cisco networking expertise, and hands-on SolarWinds management, with a minimum of 5 years in enterprise

Qualifications

• Expert-level Microsoft 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 administration

Failover clustering

Cisco networking

SolarWinds administration

Production environment support

Tools

SolarWinds (NPM, 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. You will serve as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex system issues, ensuring high availability in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

The role requires expert Hyper-V administration, failover clustering, Cisco networking expertise, and hands-on SolarWinds management, with a minimum of 5 years in enterprise