Infrastructure Engineer

Are you an experienced Infrastructure Engineer looking for your next move? If you want to be part of a friendly & inclusive team that is passionate about driving things forward, and you enjoy working on a mix of BAU (business as usual) and projects, we may just have the role for you!

We are thrilled to announce an incredible opportunity for an Infrastructure Engineer to join our Technology Infrastructure Platform and Networks team. In this role, you'll be part of a team responsible for the day to day support of our critical infrastructure and associated projects providing technical expertise to deliver and maintain compliant and performant infrastructure systems across YBS.

This is a hybrid role; remote working and a small amount of onsite presence in our Bradford office (1 to 2 days per month.) In addition, data centre attendance (Bradford area) is also a requirement as and when required. There is also a requirement for on call and adhoc out of hours working. When on call, you must be within 1 hour of the data centre.

About the role

• Provide 2nd and 3rd line support services on a 24/7/365 basis for elements of the associated technology stack across all development, testing and business critical production environments.

• Install, configuration, and maintain core hardware infrastructure including physical and virtual servers, VMware ESXi hypervisor and the management tools required to support them.

• Maintain system availability, security, and continued vendor support through the delivery of appropriate systems and application patching.

• Provide effective incident and problem diagnosis and resolution utilising other internal and external support teams when required, taking ownership where appropriate.

• Be an innovator, suggesting and introducing improvements by changes to working processes and driving automation.

• Produce and maintain knowledgebase and procedural documentation to high standards.

• Take the technical lead on various projects and deputise when needed.

• Installation, administration, and support of IT Systems, both virtual and physical including associated Systems Management software to agreed standards.

• Configuration, implementation, and maintenance of core hardware infrastructure including servers, storage, SAN switches and all the management tools required to support them.

About you

Essential experience in providing Infrastructure support services in complex business-critical IT environments. The ideal candidate will have experience in some of the below technologies:

• • • Virtualisation technologies VMware ESXi, OLVM, Hyper-V, AWS, OCI

    • HPE Server Blades & Enclosure Experience

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Support/Installation and Troubleshooting Experience.

    • Redhat Openshift

    • Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022

    • Enterprise storage solutions

    • Scripting and automation tools such as Ansible, Rundeck & PowerShell

    • IT System performance monitoring/tuning and capacity management

    • Server hardware support and installation

    • Enterprise storage solutions

    • System management and monitoring tools

    • IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery service provision

    • TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting

    • Hyperconverged technologies

    • Software defined architectures

    • DevOps working practices

    • Containerised workloads