Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Must have SC clearance.
• Strong infrastructure engineering background, ideally within complex or changing environments.
• Enhanced experience with virtualisation platforms, particularly VMware and Hyper-V.
• Experience designing or implementing storage solutions.
• Good knowledge of backup technologies, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience principles.
• Experience with Microsoft 365, Azure Cloud Services, Entra ID, and Active Directory.
• Ability to produce solution designs, low-level designs, and clear technical documentation.
• Proven ability to plan, manage, and deliver technical change.
• Strong analysis, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, and implement a replacement virtualisation platform as part of our move away from VMware.
• Support the migration and improvement of backup solutions, including widening backup coverage across Microsoft 365 and Azure environments.
• Scope, design, and implement replacement storage solutions.
• Produce low-level designs and supporting technical documentation.
• Contribute to cyber resilience improvements across infrastructure, storage, backup, and recovery processes.
• Gather technical requirements, assess current environments, and recommend suitable solutions.
• Plan and manage technical change, ensuring solutions are practical, secure, and fit for purpose.

Technologies

• Active Directory
• Azure
• Cloud
• Hyper-V
• Support
• Microsoft 365
• VMware
• Office 365
• DevOps

More

We are supporting a major infrastructure change programme for an organisation in East Bristol. This is a hands-on contract role, mostly remote, with an initial duration of 6 months and potential to extend. The position is inside IR35 and offers up to £525 per day. The role focuses on modernising virtualisation, storage, backup, Microsoft cloud services, and overall cyber resilience. Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent and contract roles across Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology, and Service & Sales sectors.

last updated 27 week of 2026