About this role
Salary: £45,000 - 50,000 per year
Requirements
- Significant experience in enterprise infrastructure engineering, hardware lifecycle management, or data centre operations.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise server, storage, and networking technologies.
- Experience managing infrastructure projects and leading technical teams.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security, compliance, and governance.
- Ability to combine strategic planning with hands-on technical delivery.
- Proven problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
- Experience in secure, regulated, or high-assurance environments is advantageous.
- Industry certifications such as ITIL, CCNA/CCNP, VMware, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, or Cisco are highly desirable.
- Ability to obtain UK security clearances if required.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery, operation, and lifecycle management of physical IT infrastructure.
- Establish and maintain engineering standards, processes, and best practices.
- Oversee hardware deployment, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning.
- Provide technical leadership across data centres, build labs, and office environments.
- Manage infrastructure projects, hardware refresh programmes, and large-scale deployments.
- Ensure compliance with security, governance, and risk management requirements.
- Support infrastructure resilience, capacity planning, and business continuity initiatives.
- Work with customers, suppliers, and senior stakeholders to deliver projects successfully.
- Mentor and support engineering teams, promoting high-performance working practices.
- Drive continuous improvement across infrastructure systems and processes.
Technologies
- Cisco
- Hardware
- Support
- ITIL
- Security
- VMware
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We are recruiting on behalf of our client for an experienced Principal Hardware Engineer based in Portsmouth, with regular travel to customer sites. This is a full-time opportunity to provide technical leadership in the delivery, operation, and lifecycle management of enterprise hardware environments, including data centres, build labs, and office infrastructure. Youll be supported by a highly skilled team and help maintain engineering standards, governance, and operational excellence across internal and customer environments. We offer the opportunity to work on large-scale enterprise infrastructure projects and cutting-edge data centre and hardware technologies, with career progression, ongoing professional development and certification support, and a collaborative, inclusive working culture. Salary is competitive and dependent on experience.
last updated 43 week of 2026