Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud & Hybrid Solutions

About the role

Responsible for designing, deploying and optimising enterprise cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions, focusing on multi‑cloud platforms, virtualization, automation, high availability, security and resilient operations.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy and configure enterprise cloud and hybrid‑cloud solutions across AWS, GCP and private cloud environments.
• Architect and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting mission‑critical, high‑availability 24×7 enterprise services.
• Develop and implement infrastructure automation using Ansible, Puppet, Bash scripting and PowerCLI.
• Design and maintain virtualised infrastructure using VMware vSphere/ESXi, Red Hat Virtualization and KVM.
• Support containerised cloud solutions using OpenShift, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Participate in proofs of concept and technical demonstrations for cloud, virtualization and infrastructure solutions.
• Implement automated server provisioning, configuration management, patching and lifecycle management.
• Develop cloud migration and transformation solutions, including migration of physical and virtual workloads to AWS.
• Architect solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, backup, storage replication, performance and capacity planning.
• Integrate cloud platforms with enterprise networking, security, storage and backup infrastructure.
• Evaluate existing infrastructure and recommend improvements to scalability, performance, resilience, security and operational efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to infrastructure and cloud engineering teams.
• Collaborate with application, network, security, storage, vendor and business stakeholders to deliver integrated cloud solutions.
• Support enterprise infrastructure across Production, DR, Testing and Development environments.

Required profile

• Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in cloud, infrastructure engineering or architecture.
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS and GCP cloud platforms.
• Extensive experience with VMware vSphere/ESXi and enterprise virtualization.
• Strong Red Hat Linux administration and infrastructure experience.
• Hands‑on experience with Ansible and Puppet automation.
• Proficiency in Bash scripting and PowerCLI for infrastructure automation.
• Experience with OpenShift, Docker and Kubernetes container platforms.
• Strong understanding of enterprise SAN/NAS storage, backup, replication and disaster recovery.
• Experience designing and supporting high‑availability infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking, including Cisco, Nexus/ACI, F5 and firewall technologies.
• Experience working across complex multi‑cloud, private‑cloud and virtualised environments.
• Industry experience delivering solutions within Banking & Financial Services, Defence, Government, Telecommunications, Critical Infrastructure and other large enterprises.

Required skills

• AWS
• GCP
• VMware vSphere
• ESXi
• Red Hat Virtualization
• KVM
• Ansible
• Puppet
• Bash
• PowerCLI
• OpenShift
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• SAN
• NAS
• Backup
• Replication
• Disaster Recovery
• Cisco
• Nexus
• ACI
• F5
• Firewalls