Infrastructure Specialist

Infrastructure Specialist – AWS / Azure, Infrastructure, Automation

3rd / 4th line support plus upgrade projects

London (hybrid – approx. 4 days per month on-site) | Insurance / Financial Services

Excellent salary, plus on-call and annual company bonus.

Are you a hands-on infrastructure engineer who'd rather automate a problem away than firefight it every week? This is a role for someone who sees the manual toil in a team's day and quietly engineers it out.

A well-established London insurance business is hiring an Infrastructure Specialist into its core IT team – a genuine 3rd/4th line role with real technical depth and a clear move towards DevOps practices.

What you'll be working with:

• A primarily AWS estate, with workloads actively migrating into Azure
• VMware virtualisation across the environment
• Windows Server and Linux operating systems
• A growing DevOps toolset – Terraform, Ansible, and scripting (Python,
• PowerShell, YAML)
• Some upgrade project work alongside BAU: SQL Server 2016→2019 upgrade and a Windows Server 2016 migration ahead of end-of-life

What makes this one different:

This team wants a proactive engineer, not a ticket-clearer. You'll be given the room to develop processes and automation that measurably reduce the team's workload – and the impact you make will be visible. Strong communication matters just as much as the tech, as you'll collaborate closely with stakeholders and other support teams over Teams.

The practicalities:

• London-based, but only around 4 days a month on-site
• Paid On-call commitment of roughly 1 week in 10
• Permanent role within a stable, well-resourced IT function

What we're looking for:

• Strong VMware and Windows Server experience
• Solid AWS (and ideally Azure) cloud exposure
• A real automation/DevOps mindset with scripting ability
• Excellent communication and a proactive, ownership-driven approach
• Desirable: Linux, SQL Server, Pure Storage, Cisco UCS, Veeam/CommVault

If this sounds like your kind of environment, apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation.