Infrastructure Engineer
Salary: £40,000 - £55,000 plus a strong benefits package. Security Clearance: SC clearance required (with eligibility for DV). Location: Cheltenham.
Role Overview
We're seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to join an ambitious technology function supporting secure, mission-critical environments for well-known clients. This position offers a broad technical scope, working across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid platforms while helping to evolve infrastructure through automation, modern tooling, and best practice.
You'll be hands-on, technically curious, and comfortable collaborating with DevOps and security specialists to improve resilience, performance, and scalability across the estate.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain physical and virtual server environments
- Administer cloud and hybrid platforms using AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
- Support and troubleshoot enterprise networking technologies including firewalls, VPNs, routing, switching, and load balancing
- Manage identity, access control, and authentication services in line with security standards
- Create and maintain scripts and automation to streamline infrastructure operations
- Implement and support monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to enhance system reliability
- Maintain backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities
- Investigate and resolve infrastructure incidents, performing root cause analysis where required
- Work closely with DevOps, cyber security, and application teams on ongoing improvements and project delivery
Skills & Experience
- At least 2 years' experience in an Infrastructure, Systems, or Platform Engineering role
- Strong administration skills across Windows and/or Linux environments
- Practical experience with virtualisation technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, or KVM
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, and VLANs
- Scripting ability using tools like PowerShell, Bash, or Python
- Hands-on experience with cloud services, particularly AWS and/or Azure
- Exposure to monitoring and observability platforms such as Splunk, Datadog, or Nagios
- Good understanding of infrastructure security concepts and best practices
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)
- Familiarity with enterprise storage and backup solutions, including SAN/NAS technologies