Server & Storage Engineer - hybrid

Jacobs; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering firm is seeking a skilled Server & Storage Engineer in Warrington. This role focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining hybrid server & storage infrastructures. Ideal candidates will possess strong knowledge of SAN solutions, VMWare, and server hardware. Competitive salary and benefits, with a focus on work-life balance and flexibility.

Benefits

Free medical cover

Enhanced parental leave pay

Professional development reimbursement

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience with SAN solutions and data migrations.
• Familiar with automation and scripting for efficiencies.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage resilient infrastructure solutions.
• Install and configure hardware/software for optimal performance.
• Collaborate with IT teams for seamless application integration.

Skills

NetApp knowledge

Dell PowerEdge Server knowledge

VMWare management

PowerShell scripting

Monitoring tools usage

Networking concepts understanding

AD and GPO understanding

Tools

Veeam Backup

SolarWinds

Job description

Server & Storage Engineer - hybrid, Warrington

Client: Jacobs

Location: Warrington, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 575c5756a53e

Job Views: 3

Posted: 12.08.2025

Expiry Date: 26.09.2025

Job Description:

We'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working with us offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the opportunity:

We are seeking a highly skilled and versatile server & storage engineer to join our Amentum International team. The role holder will possess expertise in hybrid environments (on-prem, Azure, SaaS). The role holder will lead the design, implementation and maintenance of resilient server & storage infrastructure that ensures optimal reliability, scalability, and performance. Expertise in virtualisation, storage, backups & VDI is essential.

Reporting to the Tech Services Manager, you will be working as a part of a small but highly proactive and passionate team providing remote and on-site server & storage infrastructure support and project input for our enterprise end users (internal users), across the UK, EMEA, APAC (approx. 7,500 users). You will also collaborate with colleagues at our USA central (HQ) technology team.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage resilient infrastructure solutions that ensure optimal reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Install and configure server hardware and software, ensuring systems are optimized for performance and security.
• Perform regular updates, patches and backups.
• Maintain records of server configurations, procedures, and changes for reference and compliance.
• Collaborate with other IT teams to support applications and ensure seamless integration.
• Train and mentor other team members, to ensure cross-training / skilling.

Requirements:

• Excellent knowledge of SAN solutions primarily NetApp build / configure & maintain.
• Excellent knowledge of hosting platforms Dell PowerEdge Server & Cisco USC.
• Excellent knowledge in the management and maintenance of VMWare based virtualised estates.
• Clusters / HA / Replication / Distributed Switches / vCenter upgrades & host patching.
• Experience in Veeam and other Backup technologies.
• Experience in migrations for data & infrastructure.
• Good understanding of automation and scripting; comfortable creating PowerShell scripts for infrastructure automation and efficiencies.
• Skilled in using monitoring & alerting tools and configure dashboards, e.g., SolarWinds.
• Good understanding of networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, VLANs, iSCSI).
• Good understanding of Activity Directory and GPOs.
• Several years of experience working within a large enterprise estate (5,000+ users).
• Proven track record managing enterprise-grade infrastructure in a production environment.