Infrastructure Engineer

An excellent opportunity for an Infrastructure Specialist (Hybrid) to join a leading global engineering Business with continuous development and training.

As an Infrastructure Specialist, you will be responsible for the daily support of our customers.

The role will involve mainly project work plus technical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues, and be responsible for escalations within the team, for satisfactory resolution.

Benefits: Infrastructure Specialist

• Incentive schemes designed to reward individual contribution and performance
  
  
• 10% personal pension plan
  
  
• 33 days holiday
  
  
• Private Health Scheme (non-contributory for employees)
  
  
• Opportunity for international travel
  
  
• Life assurance x 6
  
  The Role: Infrastructure Specialist
  
  
• Participation in the design, tender, procurement and delivery phases of new projects.
  
  
• Participation in the installation/configuration of infrastructure for new customers, and the improvement/enhancement of existing customer deployments.
  
  
• To oversee the performance of the infrastructure across the infrastructure managed services customer base and internally.
  
  
• To monitor the performance of the servers, proactively identify issues/abnormalities that may pose a threat to the customer's service.
  
  
• Review performance logs, analysing the performance, identifying trends, patterns and detecting irregular behaviour.
  
  
• Managing the monitoring solutions-setting up, updating, enhancing, and modifying the parameters as the infrastructure and systems are updated and upgraded.
  
  
• Ensuring that the servers are backed up, security measures are in place, and that there is an automatic failover in the case of any server downtime.
  
  
• Proactively and reactively applying vulnerability patches to managed sites.
  
  
• Communicate with the customer regarding any underlying issue and provide timely feedback
  
  
• To support to colleagues through knowledge sharing and promoting knowledge sharing initiatives.
  
  Essential Skills: Infrastructure Specialist
  
  
• Fluent in English (both spoken and written)
  
  
• A team player with a desire to learn more and train others.
  
  
• A willing communicator
  
  
• Qualified to a good degree level in any technical discipline (or to be able to show that you now possess these skills through extended experience)
  
  
• A willingness to travel to visit customer sites
  
  
• Driving License
  
  ​Technical Skills: Infrastructure Specialist
  
  
• Configuration automation with Ansible
  
  
• Linux, preferably Redhat/Centos
  
  
• Good Network skills (Firewalls & Switches)
  
  
• AWS/Azure/GCP
  
  
• Containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker
  
  
• Nagios
  
  
• Grafana and or Prometheus
  
  
• Vmware
  
  Experience: Minimum 3 years