Role Overview

Work closely with engineering, security, application, and infrastructure teams to design, implement, validate, operate, and continuously enhance enterprise infrastructure across private data centres and public cloud environments, with a primary focus on Azure and Linux-based platforms.
Ensure infrastructure services, network components, security configurations, and operational processes follow the organisation’s established technology, security, governance, and compliance requirements.
Drive reliability, automation, standardisation, and lifecycle management across a complex hybrid technology environment.

📌 General Infrastructure Responsibilities

Provide technical direction and knowledge sharing to junior members of the infrastructure and systems operations team.
Advise internal stakeholders, engineering teams, and technology partners on practical approaches for deploying and maintaining workloads across data centre and cloud environments.
Partner with infrastructure, application, security, and architecture functions to ensure operational requirements are considered during solution design and implementation.
Help establish and maintain standard infrastructure patterns covering compute, storage, networking, identity, security, observability, and Linux operating system configurations.

Build and maintain automation scripts, workflows, and operational tooling to improve infrastructure consistency, scalability, and efficiency.
Hands-on experience with Ansible and AWX for Linux and infrastructure automation.
Apply Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code practices across private and public environments.
Develop reusable enterprise automation modules and IaC templates covering Linux servers, network and security components, platform services, monitoring, and logging.
Connect infrastructure automation workflows with CI/CD processes to enable controlled, traceable, and repeatable infrastructure changes.

Partner with security and governance functions to validate infrastructure implementations against organisational security and operational requirements.
Ensure infrastructure configurations meet defined security baselines, access-control policies, regulatory obligations, and internal standards.
Introduce automated policy validation and compliance controls throughout hybrid infrastructure environments.
Develop automated mechanisms to identify security configuration issues, inappropriate access, configuration drift, and deviations from approved standards.

Work with release and change-management functions to maintain controlled, auditable deployment pipelines with appropriate approval and traceability mechanisms.
Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities for Linux workloads and infrastructure services.
Analyse system behaviour using operational metrics, logs, and event data to identify performance issues and underlying causes.
Troubleshoot infrastructure incidents, service disruptions, and production performance problems across both cloud and on-premises environments.
Contribute to infrastructure asset tracking, resource planning, tagging practices, and cost optimisation initiatives.
Participate in business continuity and disaster recovery activities, including solution design, automation, and recovery testing.

Consistent infrastructure standards and Linux operating system configurations across hybrid environments.
Automated security and governance controls that reduce operational and compliance risks.
Reliable configuration management and infrastructure automation through Ansible/AWX.
Centralised observability capabilities covering monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational reporting.
Well-maintained technical documentation, operational runbooks, automation workflows, and recovery procedures.

Strong hands-on experience operating infrastructure across on-premises and public cloud environments.
Practical experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure; exposure to AWS is an advantage.
Strong Linux administration background, with Windows administration knowledge considered a plus.
Experience with virtualisation technologies such as VMware, together with knowledge of storage and backup environments.
Good understanding of core networking concepts including DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, firewalls, routing, and network segmentation.
Hands-on experience with Ansible and AWX for infrastructure and operating system automation.
Working knowledge of Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
Experience with DevOps and source-control tooling such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and Git.
Strong scripting capability using Bash, PowerShell, and command-line utilities.
Understanding of identity and access management, infrastructure security, governance, and compliance within enterprise or regulated environments.
Strong documentation, troubleshooting, stakeholder-management, and cross-team collaboration skills.

Preferred qualifications include:

Azure Administrator certification such as AZ-104.
ITIL Foundation or equivalent IT service-management certification.
Relevant certifications in Linux administration, cloud infrastructure, automation, or DevOps.