Senior/ Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer IRC300832

Description

The Client is the UK’s leading fee-free mortgage broker. The role focuses on supporting the Client’s ongoing IT transformation and modernizing its technology and infrastructure stack. The primary initiative involves planning, designing, documenting and executing the migration of systems from traditional datacenter hosted infrastructure into a secure, automated and cost-effective Microsoft Azure and MS365 cloud environment.

Requirements

Solid experience with the following technologies and tools (must-have):

• MS Azure Expertise: Tenants and Subscriptions, Cloud Adoption Framework/ Azure Landing Zones, Azure architecture, Azure Entra ID (Enterprise applications, conditional access etc), Azure storage accounts, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure networking, and Azure performance, security and cost management.
• MS365 Applications: SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive and Intune.
• MS Exchange Online
• On-prem Infrastructure: Building and configuration of MS Windows Servers, Active Directory domain knowledge, Hypervisor virtualization management (ideally VMWare), Backup solutions (ideally VEEAM), and Infrastructure performance monitoring.
• Additional Technologies: Vulnerability Management, SIEM Technologies, PowerShell and Infrastructure As Code (ideally Terraform and Ansible).
• Excellent written and verbal communication (English language).

Desirable technologies and tools:

• SQL.
• Networking experience (Cisco switch, firewalls).
• Cisco Umbrella.
• Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure support.
• Netapp Experience.
• Knowledge of and/or certification in ITIL 4.

Job responsibilities

• Enable Cloud technology adoption through strategy planning, design, and implementation.
• Lead Infrastructure strategy planning alongside the IT Operations Manager to ensure systems are fit-for-purpose and meet business needs.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert on Azure and MS365 applications, and support mentoring and development of other IT colleagues.
• Serve as a technical escalation point, collaborating with team members to resolve complex problems and provide root cause analysis.
• Enhance automation of cloud enablement tools, such as Infrastructure As Code, and participate in their design and evolution.
• Plan and implement system migrations from datacenter hosted infrastructure to the cloud.
• Create and review comprehensive technical documentation, including high and low-level designs, architectural statements, and standard operating manuals.
• Lead technical projects alongside project managers to define and meet critical timescales.
• Design and implement cloud storage and backup solutions.
• Provide third-line technical support on L&C IT infrastructure across on-prem, datacenter and cloud environments.
• Monitor system performance, costs, availability and functionality and take proactive or remedial action to prevent outages.
• Track asset lifecycle and participate in the replacement, retirement and decommissioning of assets.
• Assist in planning Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity playbooks, carry out testing and perform remedial work.
• Plan, monitor, and test system and data backups in line with IT policies.
• Monitor software versions, and plan and implement system upgrades or patches.
• Maintain a security-first mindset, follow best practices, and manage technologies to protect systems from internal and external malicious activities.