Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer - Contract
KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions · Bellshill, Scotland ·
Contract - Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer - 6 Month Contract - Inside IR35 - Scotland Up to £650 per day | Inside IR35 | Motherwell + travel across Scotland sites | 6 Months (view to extend) Do you thrive on solving infrastructure chaos rather than just maintaining it?
We're looking for a hands-on Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer to join a major M&A integration programme, taking legacy infrastructure and bringing it into a stable, standardised, target-state environment. This is not a desk-based architecture role.
You'll be in server rooms and comms rooms, racking and cabling hardware, planning and executing physical relocations, and untangling years of legacy network sprawl - while also mentoring a team that's relying on you to leave things in better shape than you found them.
THE ROLE You'll be joining a global pharmaceutical business as it integrates a newly acquired company's IT estate. Expect a fast-moving, six-month programme with genuine ownership from day one - this is a role for someone who can hit the ground running and needs minimal hand-holding.
Key responsibilities
Assess legacy infrastructure and design pragmatic, low-risk migration and remediation plans Physically relocate legacy equipment between sites - racking, unracking, cabling and re-cabling comms rooms Commission new server rooms, including racks, hardware population and structured cabling Manage Dell servers, Windows Server and virtualisation (Hyper-V/VMware) across both environments Configure and maintain QNAP NAS storage Own backup and restore using Veeam - monitoring jobs, performing restores, and supporting active migrations Configure and troubleshoot Cisco Meraki networking (MX/MS/MR), including firewalls, VLANs and segmentation Tidy up and restructure legacy network environments Support SaaS and tenancy migrations, including moving services from legacy to new tenants, and identity platform work across AD and Entra ID Act as a senior escalation point, working closely with project managers, security teams and vendors Mentor and upskill junior members of the in-house IT team, ensuring knowledge transfer ahead of handover WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Proven, senior-level experience as an Infrastructure Engineer within a mid-to-large, established organis...