Senior Infrastructure Engineer

The role

We are seeking a skilled and proactive individual to play a key role in supporting the ANS infrastructure. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining the availability and security of critical components across the ANS platform.

Working closely with the wider Infrastructure and Security Operations Centre (SoC) teams, the role involves managing patching schedules, performing firmware upgrades, and collaborating with vendors to ensure seamless interoperability and support across the technology stack.

This position also serves as an escalation point for both the Infrastructure team and other technical teams, providing subject matter expertise in VMware, storage, and broader infrastructure technologies. The successful candidate will work alongside Team Leaders and Architects to help deliver our product roadmap and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

What will I be doing?

• Work to ensure conformtiy to public sector infrastructure requirements are met.
• Work in conjunction with our SoC team to develop and maintain platform security baselines
• Monitor, diagnose and resolve significant problems within the ANS infrastructure
• Be an escalation point for team members and the support teams offering technical expertise in virtualization, compute hardware and storage
• Collaborate and work with other technical teams to provide industry leading support to our customers
• Responsible for creating high quality documentation
• Proactively work to identify areas of improvement in the platform
• Effectively deliver project milestones
• Responsible for the generation of LLD from HLD
• Ensure our infrastructure is up to date by planning & performing patching and firmware upgrades
• Working with vendors to raise escalations and troubleshoot issues
• Produce and maintain high quality technical documentation
• Out-of-hours work on core systems and joining the on-call rota
• Leading small & medium projects, and working on large scale projects
• Deliver working within ANS change control, CAB and incident management
• Plan, prepare and deliver for upcoming maintenance works.

What will I bring to the role?

• Exposure to secure architechture design and implementation
• Experience with the deployment and management Carbon Black or other EDR solutions across cloud infrastructure
• Siginficant previous experience as an infrastructure engineer working on a large scale enterprise or multi-tenant environment
• VMware 7.0+ in (Experience with hosting provider specific technologies like Auto deploy, VVOLs or multi-site topologies is a bonus)
• Significant experience troubleshooting and analysing complex failures
• Operational experience of NSX 3.0+
• Scripting abilities in Powershell and PowerCLI
• Experience with Cisco UCS or other enterprise blade systems
• Significant Experience with Storage Technologies (HPE 3PAR, Nimble, Dell Compellent)
• Experience with FC storage networking
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring platforms
• Experience in successfully leading and delivering large scale projects
• Ability to produce and maintain Low Level Design Documentation

Why work for ANS?

At ANS, we've created a place where everyone can be themselves, and we empower our people to get the job done. Openness, ambition, honesty, and passion are what drive us every day. We are bold, courageous, and innovative – and we do it like no other. We invest in our people. In training, development, health and more – we give you the benefits and flexibility to maintain a happy work-life balance.

We're proud of the inclusive, fun, dynamic environment we've created. It's a safe space that works for all. You don't have to be a techie to work in tech. Bring your authentic self and find your dream role here. Find out more at LinkedIn pages.

What's in it for you?

With fantastic benefits, an inclusive culture, and a cool office space, we're your kind of workplace.

Company benefits

• As standard: 25 days' holiday, plus you can buy up to 5 more days
• A little extra: we'll give you your birthday off, and an extra celebration day for whatever you want! Tying the knot? You get 5 days' additional holiday in the year you get married. Oh, and 5 volunteer days!
• Private health insurance
• Pension contribution match and 4 x life assurance
• Flexible working and work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year (some exceptions)
• Maternity: 16 weeks' full pay, Paternity: 3 weeks' full pay, Adoption: 16 weeks' full pay
• Company social events – get ready for a jam-packed calendar
• Electric car scheme
• 12 days of personal growth development time

ANS are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and anyone applying for a role at our organisation can be assured that their application will be treated fairly, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sex or sexual orientation. We sometimes ask for information relating to individuals for equal opportunities monitoring purposes only.