TechOps Infra Engineer - Cloud, Linux & Security

NCC Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Medicash & Critical Illness Scheme

Pension & Life Assurance

Volunteer opportunities

Green Car Scheme

Cycle to work

Special Time Off

Job summary

NCC Group is seeking an IT Infrastructure Engineer to support and extend internal systems used to deliver consultant services from our Manchester data centre. The role blends infrastructure, networking, Linux, and automation to build reliable IT operations.

You will join a global team with opportunities to work on new technologies, maintain secure environments, and participate in out-of-hours work when required. Travel to the Manchester site is expected.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in TechOps or Infrastructure roles with hands-on delivery.
• Strong Linux admin skills across Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL distributions.
• Experience with automation tools and IaC approaches (Ansible preferred).
• Solid scripting ability (Bash/Python) and strong networking basics.
• Security-minded with system hardening and incident response awareness.
• Experience with virtualization platforms and container tech (Docker).

Responsibilities

• Maintain, patch, troubleshoot and monitor physical and virtual IT environments with security focus.
• Diagnose issues and resolve them in line with SLAs and customer needs.
• Lead design/architecture of global IT solutions and mentor teammates.

Skills

TechOps background

Linux administration

Automation

Scripting

Networking fundamentals

Security hardening

Virtualisation

Git version control

Containerisation

Tools

Ansible

VMware

KVM

XEN

Docker

Docker-Compose

Podman

LXC

ELK Stack

Veeam

Job description

NCC Group is seeking an IT Infrastructure Engineer to support and extend internal systems used to deliver consultant services from our Manchester data centre. The role blends infrastructure, networking, Linux, and automation to build reliable IT operations.

You will join a global team with opportunities to work on new technologies, maintain secure environments, and participate in out-of-hours work when required. Travel to the Manchester site is expected.