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Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Proven, senior-level experience as an Infrastructure Engineer within a mid-to-large, established organisation with complex, bespoke, or grown organically legacy environmentsExperience in a regulated sector, such as financial services, healthcare, life sciences or defence, with a solid understanding of handling sensitive data securely, particularly during data transfersStrong hands-on experience with Dell servers, Windows Server, Hyper-V/VMware, QNAP NAS and Cisco MerakiSolid networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing and ACLsProven track record of physical infrastructure work, including racking, cabling and site relocationsExperience with SaaS tenancy migrations and identity platforms such as AD and Entra IDPrior involvement in M&A, infrastructure transformation, or large-scale integration programmes is highly desirableA natural mentor, comfortable leading and upskilling less experienced colleagues without steamrolling themCalm, structured and professional under pressureFull UK driving licence Responsibilities: Assess legacy infrastructure and design pragmatic, low-risk migration and remediation plansPhysically relocate legacy equipment between sites, including racking, unracking, cabling and re-cabling comms roomsCommission new server rooms, including racks, hardware population and structured cablingManage Dell servers, Windows Server and virtualisation across both environmentsConfigure and maintain QNAP NAS storageOwn backup and restore using Veeam, including monitoring jobs, performing restores and supporting active migrationsConfigure and troubleshoot Cisco Meraki networking, including firewalls, VLANs and segmentationTidy up and restructure legacy network environmentsSupport SaaS and tenancy migrations, including moving services from legacy to new tenants, and identity platform work across AD and Entra IDAct as a senior escalation point, working closely with project managers, security teams and vendorsMentor and upskill junior members of the in-house IT team, ensuring knowledge transfer ahead of handover Technologies: CiscoHardwareHyper-VSupportLESSNetworkSecurityTCP/IPVMwareVeeamWindowsDevOps More:
We are a global pharmaceutical business delivering a fast-moving six-month M&A integration programme to bring a newly acquired companys IT estate into a stable, standardised target-state environment. This is a hands-on, fully on-site role based primarily at our Motherwell site with travel to other Scotland sites as required. The contract is up to £650 per day, inside IR35, for 6 months with a view to extend, and we are looking for someone who can hit the ground running with genuine ownership from day one.
last updated 36 week of 2026