Senior Infrastructure Engineer (67999)

Description

The company Digital Services is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead the optimisation, maintenance and reliability of core IT infrastructure at the Nissan Sunderland plant.

You will be the main technical escalation point for complex system and network problems, keeping systems highly available in a fast-moving manufacturing setting.

The ideal person combines strong virtualisation skills, enterprise monitoring administration and Cisco networking knowledge, with experience supporting critical production systems.

The company is a global digital solutions and transformation business that works with organisations to turn data into better decisions. The team is made up of engineers who share knowledge and work together on complex challenges.

The company is committed to an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit, and it is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes applicants regardless of protected characteristics. If you need reasonable accommodations during recruitment, tell the company so it can support you.

Responsibilities

• Run and tune virtualised environments and server infrastructure so production stays up.
• Serve as Tier 3 escalation for critical infrastructure faults, including detailed Hyper-V diagnosis, failover clustering and storage performance tuning.
• Troubleshoot advanced routing, switching, networking and security issues.
• Carry out VLAN changes across core and access switches to meet network segmentation needs.
• Help configure, monitor and administer Cisco firewalls and Cisco wireless networks.
• Own and grow the enterprise monitoring platform built on SolarWinds, covering alerts, dashboards and reports.
• Provide onsite production support and take part in planned maintenance outside normal hours.

Requirements

• Expert-level experience administering and troubleshooting Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Experience with failover clustering and virtual switch configuration.
• Strong Cisco networking experience across routing, switching, firewalls and wireless.
• Hands-on experience administering SolarWinds NPM and SAM.
• At least 5 years in an enterprise infrastructure, network or systems engineering role.
• Experience in manufacturing, shopfloor or managed services environments is highly desirable.

Conditions

Work onsite at Nissan Sunderland 5 days per week.

Expect overtime and extra hours when operational demand requires it.

You must be willing to join an on-call support rota.

You must be able to give out-of-hours support for critical incidents and planned maintenance.

Working pattern: 5 days per week onsite, plus overtime and out-of-hours support as operational demand requires.

Flexible arrangements are offered, depending on role and location.

Benefits

• Industry-leading benefits, support and services covering health and wellbeing.
• Flexible working arrangements that suit you, depending on role and location.