Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer

📍 UK Remote

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to play a key role in modernising and strengthening a large-scale enterprise technology environment.

You'll be responsible for delivering infrastructure improvements across both on-premises and cloud platforms, helping to increase resilience, reduce technical debt, and support the transition to modern technology services. This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges while working across a broad infrastructure estate.

What You'll Be Doing

Infrastructure Transformation

  • Deliver infrastructure upgrades, migrations and refresh programmes
  • Support the transition of services into modern cloud environments
  • Improve platform stability, performance and lifecycle management
  • Assist with the retirement and consolidation of legacy technologies
  • Drive initiatives focused on reducing operational and technical risk

Cloud & Platform Services

  • Build, configure and maintain Microsoft Azure services
  • Support hybrid infrastructure spanning cloud and on-premises environments
  • Manage identity and access technologies including Active Directory and Entra ID
  • Contribute to platform optimisation and automation initiatives

Resilience & Recovery

  • Enhance backup and recovery capabilities across critical services
  • Support disaster recovery planning and testing activities
  • Help improve business continuity and operational resilience
  • Validate recovery processes and documentation

Security & Governance

  • Apply infrastructure security best practices and standards
  • Support patching, hardening and vulnerability remediation activities
  • Ensure solutions align with security and compliance requirements
  • Contribute to governance, audit and operational assurance activities

Collaboration & Delivery

  • Work closely with technical specialists, architects and operational teams
  • Support infrastructure changes through testing and deployment phases
  • Assist with service transition and operational readiness activities
  • Engage with third-party suppliers where required

Documentation

  • Maintain technical documentation and configuration records
  • Produce implementation and support documentation
  • Ensure accurate handover into operational support teams

What We're Looking For

Technical Skills

  • Strong experience supporting Windows Server environments
  • Good knowledge of Active Directory and Entra ID
  • Hands-on Microsoft Azure experience
  • Understanding of virtualisation technologies such as VMware or Hyper-V
  • Experience with backup, monitoring and infrastructure management tools

Experience

  • Infrastructure upgrade and migration projects
  • Cloud adoption or hybrid transformation programmes
  • Legacy technology replacement and modernisation initiatives
  • Technical debt reduction and platform improvement work

Knowledge Areas

  • Disaster Recovery (DR)
  • Business Continuity (BC)
  • Backup and recovery strategies
  • Infrastructure resilience and dependency management
  • Enterprise infrastructure operations

Personal Attributes

✔ Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills

✔ Ability to work across multiple projects and priorities

✔ Excellent communication skills

✔ Detail-oriented and documentation focused

✔ Comfortable working with both technical and business stakeholders

Desirable Experience

  • Microsoft 365 platform integration
  • Infrastructure automation and DevOps tooling
  • Exposure to security standards such as ISO 27001, NIST or CIS
  • Experience within large, complex enterprise environments
  • Participation in digital transformation or modernisation programmes

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to work on meaningful infrastructure transformation projects that improve resilience, security and long-term operational performance within a complex technology environment. You'll have exposure to modern cloud technologies, enterprise-scale systems and strategic technology initiatives while remaining hands-on technically.

Job Details

Company
Inventive Search
Location
United Kingdom
Posted