Infrastructure Engineer

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.