Lead Infrastructure Engineer - #1753698

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Permanent, Leeds

Hybrid working - 2 days per week

£60,000 - £70,000 + £5k on-call

Fruition IT have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join an organisation on a 5 year AWS cloud transformation journey.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Why Apply?

This is an excellent opportunity for an Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join a cloud transformation journey to AWS. You'll be working on a mixture of project based work & 3rd line support. The scale of the environment includes 3000 Windows server with a small footprint in Linux.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer - What will I be doing?

• Plan, design, and implement IT infrastructure solutions relating to compute, virtualisation, containerisation (both on-premise & AWS Cloud based), load balancers, primary storage, and backup that meets the business needs and requirements.


• Collaborate with other IT teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment and integration of IT infrastructure with other IT systems and services.


• Provide out of hours support via the On-Call support rota and be prepared for occasional planned out of hours work when expected.


• Provide technical leadership, coach and mentor team members

Assist in managing security by:

• Installing operating systems patches and updates.


• Reviewing logs to investigate unauthorised activity.


• Administration of Active Directory and Group Policy.


• Remediating reported vulnerabilities.

Infrastructure Engineer - What do I need?

• Excellent understanding and experience of administrating Windows Server (including Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP) and Linux (RedHat & Oracle) Operating Systems.


• Skills across Microsoft SCOM, SCCM, DPM, WSUS, Intune, Defender, Patch My PC and Windows Hyper-V for running over 1000 servers.


• Experience of administering & supporting both on-premise and AWS platforms


• Experience with automation tools like Ansible, Python and PowerShell will be a plus.


• Experience acting as a techical lead, coaching and mentoring team members


• Experience of designing and building solutions

Added bonus:

• Qualifications in Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate or other relevant Microsoft credentials in desirable.


• ​Certification in AWS desirable (e.,g. Cloud Practitioner and AWS Certified SysOps Administrator) What's

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d out more and explore this opportunity further, please apply and feel free to contact Matt Wood on 0113 323 9748.We are

an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.