Summary: The role of Cloud Infrastructure Engineer focuses on supporting and maintaining both on-premises and Azure cloud infrastructure services for a global IT consultancy. The position requires proactive management of IT operations and infrastructure projects, ensuring security and reliability. This is a 6-month contract role based in Birmingham, with a hybrid working arrangement. The ideal candidate should possess extensive experience in infrastructure operations and Azure services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the security, availability, integrity, and day-to-day support of core infrastructure services, including on-premise and Cloud.
• Provide operational support and maintenance for on-premises and Azure cloud infrastructure services.
• Take proactive ownership of IT infrastructure operations, support, and project-related activities.
• Monitor and manage infrastructure-related tickets/requests and technical escalations.
• Assist with regular operational activities such as disaster recovery tests and out-of-hours work as required.
• Contribute to the optimisation, monitoring, maintenance, and improvement of all infrastructure services.
• Coordinate activities required to deliver a strong infrastructure operations service.

Key Skills:

• Hands-on experience as an infrastructure operations support engineer.
• Experience in all aspects of enterprise Windows platform management.
• Maintaining and creating comprehensive documentation including processes, procedures, and guides.
• Support and development of core infrastructure services, including Windows Server Administration (2012/2016/2019/2022).
• Cloud Platform experience, preferably Azure.
• Experience with hyperconverged hosting platforms (e.g., Nutanix).
• VMware System Administration skills.
• Proficiency in Powershell.
• Experience with backup and recovery tools (e.g., CommVault, Azure Backup).
• Knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g., SCCM, Group Policy).

Salary (Rate): 300

City: Birmingham

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT