Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Virtualisation & Cloud

UK-based | Permanent

We’re partnering with a UK software engineering and digital product business to recruit a Senior Infrastructure Engineer supporting business-critical online platforms used by international customers.

This role combines hands-on engineering with influence over infrastructure decisions, technology investment and supplier performance. You’ll help select the right solutions, deliver improvements and maintain reliable production services.

The role

• Maintain and improve virtualised and hybrid infrastructure.

• Deliver upgrades, migrations and resilience improvements.

• Support Windows Server, Microsoft cloud services and customer-facing applications.

• Evaluate technologies, manage suppliers and contribute to budgets and cost optimisation.

• Resolve complex incidents and communicate clearly with technical teams and business stakeholders.

What we’re looking for

• Strong practical VMware/vSphere or Hyper-V experience.

• Windows Server, IIS, failover clustering and Microsoft Network Load Balancing.

• Microsoft 365/Entra experience, including Exchange Online, Intune, Defender and Teams.

• Hands-on AWS and Cloudflare experience across DNS, CDN and WAF.

• Evidence of supplier management and responsibility for infrastructure spending.

• Experience supporting highly available, business-critical production environments.

You’ll suit this opportunity if you enjoy technical delivery alongside the commercial decisions that make infrastructure effective.

The business operates a 24/7 environment. The updated salary, benefits, working pattern and Oxford attendance requirements are being finalised and will be discussed before progressing an application.

Interested? Send me your CV or message me for an initial conversation.

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