Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer - On-Prem Server Design & Migration Permanent | Competitive Salary + benefits | On site, Manchester & Oldham, Monday-Friday | Immediate start The opportunity A growing specialist engineering and technology business is investing in its on-premise infrastructure.

It needs an experienced engineer to design and deliver server migrations. You'll report to the Head of IT and own the infrastructure behind the business: servers, platforms, security and automation. This is a hands-on engineering role, not a service desk job.

You'll spend your first weeks with the service desk and end users to learn the environment. After that, your focus is design, migration and infrastructure projects. What you'll do Design and run on-prem to on-prem server migrations, upgrades and refresh projects Run Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy and Hyper-V Support and migrate SQL Server, IIS and Remote Desktop Services Own backup, disaster recovery and business continuity Patch, monitor and secure servers, endpoints and platforms Work on M365 Hybrid, Azure/Entra ID and Intune Support networking: switching, VLANs, firewalls (Sophos XGS), VPN and WAN Run vulnerability remediation and endpoint protection, and help deliver Cyber Essentials Plus Automate tasks with PowerShell Act as the escalation point for the service desk, and keep documentation and network diagrams up to date What you'll bring 6-8+ years in IT infrastructure Extensive experience designing and delivering on-prem to on-prem server migrations (essential) Strong Windows Server, AD, Group Policy and Hyper-V experience Hands-on SQL Server, IIS and RDS migration experience M365 Hybrid and Intune experience Sound networking knowledge: TCP/IP, VLANs, WAN, VPN Firewall experience, ideally Sophos XGS or another next-generation firewall Patching, vulnerability remediation, and backup and DR experience PowerShell scripting The ability to explain technical problems clearly to non-technical users You must live within commuting distance of Manchester and Oldham. The role is on site five days a week.

Nice to have

Cyber Essentials Plus, Mimecast, and Microsoft, Azure, networking or security certifications. Why apply? You'll be a senior engineer in a small IT team, with real ownership of design and migration projects in a business that is growing and investing in its IT. Interviews are happening now. ...

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