Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Southern Scotland, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for an initial 6 month contract with option to extend on a rate of £600/day (Inside IR35). This role will be hybrid working with a minimum of 1 day per week in the office.

Responsibilities:

• Day to day operation, monitoring and management of the Oracle and Azure cloud environments, ensuring quick and effective deployments using Infrastructure as Code

• Lead and enhance Cloud Security operations, including but not limited to identity and access management, vulnerability management, logging, monitoring, and incident response.

• Initiate and monitor actions to investigate patterns and trends to resolve problems and determine future preventative measures.

• Use information security practices and available security controls to contribute to protecting solutions and services.

• Design, Build, Configure, Implement, Administer and Support infrastructure solutions and services, for example, networking and physical infrastructure, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software, open-source packages and solutions, or virtual and cloud computing.

• Use information security practices and available security controls to contribute to protecting solutions and services.

• Review systems designs to ensure the security and compliance of the design, the selection of appropriate technology, the efficient use of resources, and the integration of multiple systems.

• Take ownership of issues end‑to‑end, investigating problems across systems, processes and services; understanding whether issues are strategic, tactical or operational; and ensuring resolution, mitigation, or appropriate handover.

• Translate designs into delivery, producing logical and physical designs, creating detailed designs, and designing systems with managed risk, appropriate complexity, and meaningful business or technical impact.

• Support the shaping and implementation/ongoing establishment and maturing of IT Architecture Design/Review Boards and Governance within the organisation. Select and contribute to appropriate design standards, methods, and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively

• Contribute to continuous improvement, including implementing remedies and preventative measures, taking inputs from multiple sources, and establishing coherent, effective frameworks.

• Understand and apply modern development standards, explaining the key principles and applying them to your work.

• Apply core technical and testing skills, including executing test scripts, understanding the role of testing, documenting work using required standards and tools, and troubleshooting issues across multiple technology capabilities.

Essential Skills:

• An in-depth knowledge of MS Azure is critical to this role, as is knowledge of the wider Microsoft product suite and Linux. Oracle knowledge is also required. Knowledge of securely integrating MS Azure with other cloud platforms is highly desirable.

• Demonstrable experience managing and maintaining infrastructure systems in a structured environment.

• Experience implementing changes and updates to infrastructure systems, ensuring minimal disruption.

• Experience using and supporting scripting and software tools, in particular a knowledge of Python and MS DevOps platforms is required

• Experience of sitting on Change and Architecture Boards and/or present to them, to ensure compliant and secure services are developed in line with best practice and architectural principles

• A confident and clear communicator with high quality verbal and written communication skills

• Calm and courteous demeanour when faced with difficult/challenging circumstances

• Able to plan and deliver assigned responsibilities to quality and time without close ongoing support/supervision

• Able to thrive in situations where information is only partially available and requires to be gathered by discussion with other stakeholders

• Inquisitive, self-motivated, resilient and results-driven

Desirable Skills:

• Advanced written and verbal communication skills

• Information/Cyber Security Analyst/Senior Analyst knowledge

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.