Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Application Deadline: 5 August 2025

Department: Information Technology

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: EPUKI Leeds Office

Description

EPUKI are recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer based at our EPUKI Leeds office.

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for architecting, implementing, and maintaining robust IT infrastructure solutions across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. This role bridges traditional infrastructure management with modern cloud technologies, ensuring seamless integration between legacy systems and cloud-native solutions. The position requires managing complex environments while maintaining high availability, security, and performance standards across all infrastructure components.

The role encompasses both strategic infrastructure planning and hands-on technical delivery, requiring collaboration with diverse stakeholders to align infrastructure capabilities with business objectives. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in the organisation's IT modernisation initiative, facilitating the transition from a traditional environment to a hybrid model. This includes managing cost, ensuring regulatory compliance, and optimising processes.

This is a hybrid-working role, with the expectation to be present at the office for a minimum of two days per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain hybrid infrastructure solutions, integrating on-premises VMware environments with cloud services, while ensuring alignment with business goals and security standards.
• Administer VMware and Windows Server environments, managing virtualisation, lifecycle, capacity planning, and supporting legacy server platforms.
• Implement and manage Azure cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, security, and hybrid connectivity (e.g., VPN, Azure Arc).
• Utilise Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as ARM templates, Terraform, and Azure DevOps for consistent and automated deployments.
• Ensure operational excellence through proactive monitoring, patching, performance optimisation, and capacity planning across hybrid environments.
• Automate infrastructure tasks and system processes using scripting languages like PowerShell and Python to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Lead and support infrastructure-related projects, collaborating with stakeholders, managing timelines, and providing technical expertise and mentorship.
• Respond to and resolve incidents, performing root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures to ensure system stability and resilience.
• Join the emergency out-of-hours team to cover high-priority incidents on a rotating one-in-seven basis.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Background

• Substantial experience in infrastructure engineering roles with increasing levels of responsibility (essential).
• Proven track record of managing complex infrastructure projects from conception to delivery (essential).
• Experience working in fast-paced environments with multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities (essential).
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and matrix organisational structures (essential).

Behaviours

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with attention to detail.
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with emerging technologies.
• Adaptable and resilient, with the ability to remain effective under pressure, embrace change, and quickly adjust to shifting priorities and technologies.
• Proactive and flexible team player, capable of managing multiple tasks, taking initiative, and contributing to continuous improvement across diverse projects.
• Availability for occasional out-of-hours work for maintenance windows and incident response.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience (essential).
• Microsoft Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305, or equivalent) (highly desirable).
• VMware certifications (VCP, VCAP, or equivalent) (desirable).
• Microsoft Windows Server certifications (desirable).
• ITIL Foundation or equivalent service management framework knowledge (desirable).