Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer – Watford – New (REF5)

A market-leading organisation is recruiting an Infrastructure Engineer to join their central delivery team working across M365, Azure, and on-prem infrastructure. This new hands-on role will own infrastructure and migrations end-to-end, implement group-wide standards, and help transform a highly fragmented environment into a consistent, secure, and governable platform.

Duties & responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end M365 tenant migrations (discovery, data migration, target configuration, validation and cutover).
• Review and rationalise Azure estates against Well-Architected principles.
• Maintain and support on-prem infrastructure and hybrid integration points.
• Produce detailed diagrams, build guides, as-built records and runbooks.
• Drive standardisation and guardrails across subsidiaries (identity, security baselines, conditional access, MFA).
• Ensure changes follow change control and risk management processes.
• Design and execute test plans (functional, security, DR, performance) and support operational handover into BAU.

Skills & experience (essential)

• 4+ years’ experience across M365 and Azure in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on with Exchange, SharePoint, Intune, Entra ID (Azure AD), Security & Compliance.
• Experience supporting or leading large-scale migration or consolidation initiatives across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Solid grasp of modern identity and access principles, including secure authentication models and access control.
• Background working with hybrid estates that include both cloud platforms and traditional on-prem infrastructure.
• Ability to automate and standardise through scripting or infrastructure-led approaches.
• Confident communicator, capable of influencing technical direction and explaining change clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable

• Relevant degree or professional cloud/security certifications.
• Experience operating in multi-company / acquisition environments or rolling consolidation programmes.

Please send your CV to receive the full job description and to discuss the role in more detail.