Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer - Contract
16 days ago
Motherwell
Up to 650 per day Inside IR35 Motherwell + travel across Scotland sites 6 Months (view to extend) Do you thrive on solving infrastructure chaos rather than just maintaining it? We're looking for a hands-on Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer to join a major M&A integration programme, taking legacy infrastructure and bringing it into a stable, standardised, target-state environment. This is not a desk-based architecture role. You'll be in server rooms and comms rooms, racking and cabling hardware, planning and executing physical relocations, and untangling years of legacy network sprawl - while also mentoring a team that's relying on you to leave things in better shape than you found them. You'll be joining a global pharmaceutical business as it integrates a newly acquired company's IT estate. Expect a fast-moving, six-month programme with genuine ownership from day one - this is a role for someone who can hit the ground running and needs minimal hand-holding. Key responsibilities: • Assess legacy infrastructure and design pragmatic, low-risk migration and remediation plans, • Physically relocate legacy equipment between sites - racking, unracking, cabling and re-cabling comms rooms, • Commission new server rooms, including racks, hardware population and structured cabling, • Manage Dell servers, Windows Server and virtualisation (Hyper-V/VMware) across both environments, • Configure and maintain QNAP NAS storage, • Own backup and restore using Veeam - monitoring jobs, performing restores, and supporting active migrations, • Configure and troubleshoot Cisco Meraki networking (MX/MS/MR), including firewalls, VLANs and segmentation, • Tidy up and restructure legacy network environments, • Support SaaS and tenancy migrations, including moving services from legacy to new tenants, and identity platform work across AD and Entra ID, • Act as a senior escalation point, working closely with project managers, security teams and vendors, • Mentor and upskill junior members of the in-house IT team, ensuring knowledge transfer ahead of handover, • Proven, senior-level experience as an Infrastructure Engineer within a mid-to-large, established organisation with complex, bespoke, or "grown organically" legacy environments, • Experience in a regulated sector (e.g. financial services, healthcare, life sciences or defence) with a solid understanding of handling sensitive data securely, particularly during data transfers, • Strong hands-on experience with Dell servers, Windows Server, Hyper-V/VMware, QNAP NAS and Cisco Meraki, • Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, ACLs), • Proven track record of physical infrastructure work: racking, cabling, and site relocations, • Experience with SaaS tenancy migrations and identity platforms (AD/Entra ID), • Prior involvement in M&A, infrastructure transformation, or large-scale integration programmes is highly desirable, • A natural mentor - comfortable leading and upskilling less experienced colleagues without steamrolling them, • Calm, structured and professional under pressure - a safe pair of hands rather than a firefighter, • Full UK driving licence Based primarily at our client's Motherwell site, with the flexibility to work from other Scotland-based sites as the programme requires. When work is taking place at a particular site, you'll typically be based there for the full day (or week) rather than commuting between locations, so this role suits someone within a genuinely commutable distance of these sites across the Central Belt. This is a 5 day a week, fully on-site role - please only apply if you're able to commit to this on a sustained basis for the duration of the contract. • Contract: 6 months (start date late September 2026), • Rate: Up to 650 per day, Inside IR35, • Location: Motherwell, with travel to other Scotland sites, • Driving licence: Required #J-18808-Ljbffr