Infrastructure Engineer
This is an office based role - please apply if you are local to the Kent County. The Role
We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer with strong expertise in Fortinet / FortiGate firewalls and VMware vCenter to join a dynamic IT infrastructure team.
You will play a key role in maintaining, securing, and optimising the organisation’s network and virtual infrastructure environment, ensuring high availability, performance, and resilience across business-critical systems.
This role offers a mix of BAU support and project-based work, including infrastructure upgrades, security enhancements, and virtualisation improvements.
Key Responsibilities- Design, implement, and support Fortinet / FortiGate firewalls and security appliances
- Manage firewall policies, VPNs (IPSec/SSL), NAT, VLANs, and routing protocols
- Administer and maintain VMware vCenter and ESXi environments, including VM provisioning and host management
- Monitor and optimise virtual infrastructure performance and capacity
- Support network infrastructure including switching, routing, WAN/LAN, and SD-WAN
- Implement security best practices across network and virtual environments
- Provide 2nd/3rd line support for infrastructure and network incidents
- Support backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability configurations
- Maintain infrastructure documentation, diagrams, and configuration standards
- Contribute to infrastructure transformation and cloud integration initiatives
- Proven experience in an Infrastructure or Network Engineer role
- Strong hands-on experience with Fortinet / FortiGate firewalls
- Solid experience administering VMware vCenter and ESXi hosts
- Strong understanding of network security principles and firewall management
- Experience with Windows Server and Active Directory
- Knowledge of virtual networking within VMware environments
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
- Fortinet certifications (e.g., NSE 4 or above)
- VMware certifications (e.g., VCP)
- Experience with hybrid cloud environments (Azure, AWS)
- Experience with backup solutions (e.g., Veeam)
- Automation or scripting experience (PowerShell, Python)
- Experience with monitoring or SIEM tools