Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description

Permanent Hybrid Stoke-on-TrentThis individual will support the IT development team and system administrators in delivering robust, performant, resilient and recoverable infrastructure platforms, traditional and cloud, as well as supporting the technical development of the internal infrastructureteam.You will determine and maintain best practice and infrastructure standards as well as ensuring all platforms are secure and meet all legislative compliance requirements.What you will be doing:

• Excellent communicator able to clearly understand, solve and educate the teams in all technical issues related to your specialisms, have a broad knowledge of infrastructure technologies & best practices.
• Promoting technical excellence within the team ensuring the highest level of technical quality, leading knowledge transfer of new solutions into the team
• Work within the incident response process providing expertise & support to the support team as required.
• Work with the other technical leads and external technical resource to design and document end to end, secure, and scalable, performant Infrastructure solutions driving appropriate best practice and standards.
• Participate in technical evaluation of products within the infrastructure domain and participate in the deployment and implementation of the infrastructure technologies.
• Work with the development team to understand development roadmaps for the business.
• Participate in the design of best of breed solutions, exploiting industry best practice.
• Contribute to the development of technology roadmaps.
• Work closely with the IT teams to deliver cost effective solutions in line with the IT strategy & roadmap whilst implementing appropriate control mechanisms.
• Knowledgeable in enhancements available within the current infrastructure as well as any shifts in technology and enhancements that would benefit the business and the wider teams.
• Review vulnerability and penetration test results, advising, preparing, and performing remediation actions.
• Work with security functions, including the Data Protection Officer to ensure policies are maintained and audited, including but not limited to; PCI/DSS, GDPR, CE+ and other standards are adhered to.

What we’re looking for:

• Establishes strong working relationships with internal and external suppliers and customers.
• Demonstrate initiative and think independently. Focused on improving the existing processes and technology to improve our service.
• Previous experience in reviewing existing infrastructure and identifying areas for improvement. Confident delivering creative proposals to senior managers
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar Infrastructure role in a similar sized organisation, with a minimum of 1 year’s hands on cloud experience.
• Proven and able to articulate technical hands-on experience with cloud platforms, ideally Azure in both design & support capacity.
• Awareness of DevOps, pipelines, and CI/CD methodology to support infrastructure deployments.
• Experience in a web-enabled, live e-commerce environment with skills to include web site & services implementations, customisation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience of working on multi-tier, high volume, transactional system platforms and an understanding of the challenges and management.
• Experience with use of infrastructure auto-deployment techniques; PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform etc.
• Awareness of web application development techniques and tools, XML, .Net framework, IIS, Apache and CI/CD methodologies.
• Experience of the development of high & low-level designs and documenting technical solutions.
• Working knowledge of ITILv3.