Infrastructure Engineer
Posted
Summary
Support and enhance a mixed on-premises, hyper-converged and Azure infrastructure estate: patching, monitoring and incident response, Azure migration, Microsoft 365/Entra ID administration, DR failover testing and ITIL change management. Mostly remote with one onsite day a month at UK-wide client offices; deep Microsoft, VMware/Nutanix, HPE and Citrix stack.
Devonshire Hayes is recruiting an experienced IT Infrastructure Engineer to support and enhance a varied infrastructure estate spanning on-premises, hyper-converged and cloud technologies, with a focus on Azure migration and Microsoft 365.
This role requires one day a month onsite in any of the clients offices which are UK wide.
The role
- Maintain secure, reliable server, storage, network and application services, including patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation and incident resolution.
- Monitor availability, performance and capacity; investigate alerts and complete root cause analysis.
- Deliver infrastructure improvements, Azure workload migration, optimisation and automation.
- Execute disaster recovery and failover testing, review technical changes and conduct smoke testing.
- Support ITIL processes, change scheduling and CAB, maintain documentation, and track licensing and certificate renewals.
- Mentor junior colleagues, collaborate with technical partners and improve infrastructure and data centre energy efficiency.
Essential experience
- 5+ years within an infrastructure delivery team, with strong troubleshooting, prioritisation, change management and stakeholder communication skills.
- Microsoft: Windows Server, Exchange, Active Directory, Entra ID, SQL, VPN, DNS and DHCP.
- Cloud and endpoint: Azure, Exchange Online, Azure Arc, Intune, Endpoint Management, and Microsoft 365 administration and security.
- Virtualisation: experience with virtualisation technologies, preferably VMware and Nutanix.
- Hardware and storage: HPE servers and blades; SAN technologies, ideally Nimble, Alletra and 3PAR.
- Networking and security: HPE ProCurve and FlexFabric, firewalls—ideally FortiGate—and secure network architectures such as SASE.
- Citrix: Virtual Apps and Desktops, plus a good understanding of Citrix ADC.
- Automation: scripting skills, such as PowerShell, to support cloud operations.
Desirable
- Azure cloud management and migration.
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates.
- Server and storage infrastructure management.
- Nutanix AHV and disaster recovery failover technologies.
- Rubrik backup solutions.
- Microsoft Sentinel or similar SIEM platforms.