Platform & Infrastructure engineer

Who You Are

An experienced Senior Platform and Infrastructure Engineer with a strong background in managing server and cloud infrastructure environments. You possess excellent interpersonal skills, enabling you to effectively engage and negotiate with stakeholders. Your communication skills, both written and verbal, are strong, and you are proficient in delivering presentations. You have a proven ability to deliver exceptional customer service, collaborating effectively within teams. Your extensive experience in a senior engineering role, ideally within a large local authority or a service provider supporting public sector platform and infrastructure services, sets you apart. You have demonstrated success in contributing to high-performing teams, delivering quality services to meet complex business needs, and enabling standardization, simplification, sharing, and re-use of technology solutions. Your solid understanding of IT standards ensures you operate effectively within relevant frameworks and best practices.

What the Job Involves

This role involves managing server and cloud infrastructure environments, supporting public sector platform and infrastructure services. You will collaborate with teams and stakeholders to deliver high-quality services that meet complex business needs. The role requires you to engage in standardization, simplification, sharing, and re-use of technology solutions. This position demands operating within IT standards, best practices frameworks, and requires hands-on experience with managing Windows and Linux servers, VMware, Active Directory, Certificate Authority, Group Policy, and SCCM/Intune. Cloud expertise, particularly with AWS, is highly valued.

Skills

• Strong background in server and cloud infrastructure management
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Exceptional customer service and team collaboration
• Experience in senior engineering roles within large authorities or public sectors
• Ability to deliver quality services that meet business needs
• Solid understanding of IT standards and frameworks
• Hands-on experience with Windows, Linux, VMware, AD, SCCM/Intune
• Cloud expertise, particularly AWS