Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer

Salary up to £38,249, 35 annual leave days + bank holidays, hybrid working (3 days in office), competitive pension scheme and other employee benefits

Hays Technology are working in partnership with a large education establishment in Stoke-on-Trent to recruit an Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer on a permanent basis.

This is a technical role supporting the delivery and technical development of server, storage and Azure Cloud services across the organisation.This role is critical in the delivery of server, storage and Cloud infrastructure services.

Daily they are responsible for the delivery of projects, BAU activities within the team, and the resolution of customer requests and support calls.This is a great opportunity for a skilled Infrastructure Engineer with experience and knowledge in Cloud technologies, Systems Management, Identity Management, networking, databases, data storage and strategy, focused on making a positive contribution.

Main Responsibilities:

The installation, operation, management, and support of company-wide digital infrastructure, both physical and virtual, throughout product and system life cycles, including planned decommissioning, replacement and virtualisation.
Provision, build, deploy and maintain SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS environments within Azure Cloud including AKS, as well as virtual servers within
Azure Local (HCI).
Consider and implement options to expand automation of current processes.
Monitor systems performance and capacity planning for proactive infrastructure fine-tuning and future development.
Administer storage and backup systems to provide agreed service levels and deliver a robust backup policy.
Prepare and maintain operational and disaster recovery procedure documentation. Technical support for and involvement in disaster recovery activities including regular testing of systems.
Research into and implementation of regular and critical software updates to align with current system standards and swift cyber security vulnerability remediations.
Actively participate in the service Duty Officer Rota, assign and complete customer support or service requests following agreed SLOs for ticket completion.
In order to apply for this role, you must have the following skills & experience:

Knowledge, understanding and experience of infrastructure configurations, physical and virtual servers, SANs, WAN topologies, HA/clustering, dynamic allocation policies, number of processors, amount of memory and storage allocations, and external interfaces RF subsystem components, number of access points etc.
Knowledge and experience of relevant procedures for the installation, testing and commissioning of supplier specific equipment and software in all legitimate operational environments
Knowledge and experience of standards associated with digital risk and security practice nationally and internationally, published by authorities such as IEEE, IEC, BSI, ISO. IISP, ISACA
Knowledge of all fundamental elements of hosting and cloud technologies (including Azure Cloud and Azure Kubernetes Service), including: design; planning; security and compliance; integration; provisioning; cloud storage; virtualisation and be able to consider the above in the context of the related business environment.
Knowledge and experience in networking and communications related concepts such as topological design, load balancing, virtual distributed firewall, and overlay networks.
If you have the relevant experience and would like to apply, please submit your CV.

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