IT Infrastructure Lead Engineer

2 months ago


Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom Interface Recruitment UK Full time
IT Infrastructure Lead Engineer - High Growth E-Commerce Business

We are seeking an experienced IT Infrastructure Lead Engineer to join our team at Interface Recruitment UK. As a key member of our IT department, you will play a crucial role in the transformation of our client's IT infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and develop scalable IT infrastructure solutions for our client's internal business and customers.
  • Manage the day-to-day operations of the server estate, including desktop, virtual, and physical servers.
  • Enable systems and services to reside on the most secure, reliable, and resilient platforms while consolidating existing infrastructures and reducing costs.
  • Support strategic planning activities by advising on suitable technical solutions and developing high and low-level designs.
  • Keep abreast of new technologies by working closely with our solutions partners and attending industry meet-ups and reading relevant publications.
  • Execute, test, and roll-out innovative solutions to ensure you understand and can demonstrate and advise on tech to our customers.
  • Create and document installation, configuration, maintenance, and support procedures for all systems under management.
  • Manage the Lamp stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP servers), Linux email platforms, MS Windows Servers, VM-Ware platform, and our monitoring and alerting tools.
  • Provide assistance with troubleshooting our internal systems and support the Developers in a DevOps capacity where possible.
  • Assist in the planning and deployment of software updates and patches.
  • Work with the wider IT department and third parties to continually monitor IT security; reacting in a timely manner to any vulnerabilities identified and continuously.
  • Regularly auditing instance usage and ensuring monetary and resource costs are understood with stakeholders.
  • Provide auditing and reporting for all internal and customer IT infrastructures, to highlight risks and plans for mitigation.
  • Support any emergency Business Continuity and/or Disaster Recovery actions if required.
  • Manage the planning and execution of all core infrastructure upgrades and implementations, by following a CAB approval process for any live service affecting change ensuring that changes are understood by all stakeholders and approved/rejected accordingly.
  • Manage third-party contracts and relationships.
  • Conduct audit and inventory of software systems, licensing, and services.

Essential Competencies/Skills and Experiences for the Role:

  • Experience in script writing.
  • Experience in RPM packaging, configuration management/infrastructure as code.
  • Ability to explain technical matters to non-technical members of the team.
  • Ability to work on and lead technical projects adequately, delivering on time and to budget.
  • Flexibility as part of the role, supporting the team and business out-of-hours where necessary.
  • Ability to prepare infrastructure designs, and provide support to the B2B team with presales queries and solution questions.
  • Ability to support and mentor junior members of the IT Operations team on technical matters.

Desirable Competencies/Skills and Experiences for the Role:

  • VM-Ware/RedHat accredited.
  • Experience in a client-facing or consultancy role.
  • Experience of cloud migration projects (Azure and similar).


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