Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Big Red Recruitment
Cv48Jh, CV4 8JH, United Kingdom
Last week
£55,000 – £60,000 pa

Salary

£55,000 – £60,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
19 May 2026 (Last week)

Benefits

28 days holidays + Bank Holidays Holiday buy/sell scheme Company pension scheme Cycle to work scheme Death in service Employee assistance programme Occupational health provider service
We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join a growing, evolving technology estate at a pivotal point in its journey.

This is a role with real substance. The foundations are in place, but there's a clear opportunity to shape, mature and lead across infrastructure, cloud, security, and supplier management.

The Opportunity
You'll be stepping into an established team to provide technical guidance to the small existing team, whilst remaining hands on yourself.

You'll play a key role in:
  • Strengthening security practices and making better use of existing tooling
  • Bringing structure to infrastructure and cloud operations
  • Improving resilience, documentation, and disaster recovery capability
  • Working with the Head of Operations to take back control from suppliers and ensuring quality service and better value for money
  • Contributing to cloud and platform strategy (Azure-focused)
The environment has a need for someone who can simplify, stabilise, and modernise.

What You'll Be Doing
  • Leading day-to-day infrastructure and platform operations (Azure, M365)
  • Supporting the development of a team of 3 engineers - bringing structure, coaching, and accountability
  • Owning operational security (patching, vulnerabilities, access controls, audits)
  • Driving improvements in monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery
  • Working closely with suppliers
  • Supporting cloud journey decisions with technical knowledge
  • Bringing greater visibility, documentation, and operational discipline
This is a hands-on role, so you'll need to be comfortable being close to the tech while also stepping up as a Senior member of the team.

What We're Looking For
  • Strong infrastructure background with exposure to on-premise, Azure, Microsoft and O365 stack
  • Experience coaching or mentoring engineers in a hands-on environment
  • Someone confident enough to challenge, but pragmatic in approach
  • A people-focused leader who can bring a team with them
  • Solid understanding of security fundamentals in an operational setting
  • Experience working in multi-site environments
  • Exposure to Azure services Logic Apps / Data Factory, or low/no-code tooling
This role is part of an on-call rota which is currently 1 in 10 for P1 incidents*
*This rota may be subject to change frequency given seniority.

Permanent position
Coventry based office
Hybrid working - 2 days office, 3 days remote
Salary £55,000 - £60,000

28 days holidays + Bank Holidays, holiday buy/sell scheme, company pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, death in service, employee assistance programme, occupational health provider service.

We are an equal opportunity recruitment company. This means we welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.

We are particularly invested in Neurodiversity inclusion and offer reasonable adjustments in the interview process. Reasonable adjustments are changes that we can make in the interview process if your disability puts you at a disadvantage compared with others who are not disabled. If you would benefit from a reasonable adjustment in your interview process, please call or email one of our recruiters.

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