Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 days ago
Uddingston
Salary: £? - ? per year • 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, such as 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, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing and ACLs, • Proven track record of physical infrastructure work, including racking, cabling and site relocations, • Experience with SaaS tenancy migrations and identity platforms such as AD and 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, • Full UK driving licence, • Assess legacy infrastructure and design pragmatic, low‑risk migration and remediation plans, • Physically relocate legacy equipment between sites, including 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 across both environments, • Configure and maintain QNAP NAS storage, • Own backup and restore using Veeam, including monitoring jobs, performing restores and supporting active migrations, • Configure and troubleshoot Cisco Meraki networking, 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, • Cisco, • Hardware, • Hyper‑V, • Support, • LESS, • Network, • Security, • TCP/IP, • VMware, • Veeam, • Windows, • DevOps 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr