Spectrum IT Recruitment
Infrastructure Engineer
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Excellent Opportunity for Infrastructure Engineer | Southampton
Our client's Engineering Team in Southampton is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join them. This exciting role involves designing, managing, and continuously improving the infrastructure that enables software and hardware engineers to deliver cutting-edge technology.
The Role
As the Infrastructure Engineer, your key responsibilities will include:
- Managing and enhancing both physical and virtual infrastructure while supporting engineering teams.
- Maintaining platform reliability, security, and performance across multiple development environments.
- Collaborating closely with software and hardware engineers to address infrastructure requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
- Leading automation initiatives to streamline deployment, configuration, and administration.
- Monitoring system health, troubleshooting complex issues, and implementing improvements for maximising uptime.
- Contributing to the evolution of infrastructure, tooling, and operational best practices.
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Essential Skills & Experience
Applicants must have:
- Strong Linux administration skills (Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky Linux, or Red Hat Experience).
- A solid understanding of networking including switching, firewalls, and fault diagnosis.
- Experience with virtualisation environments, preferably using XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra.
- Familiarity with storage management, ideally NetApp.
- Hands-on expertise with infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform, or OpenTofu).
- Administration of Jenkins, including server configuration and CI/CD pipeline creation.
- Knowledge of monitoring and observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, or Zabbix).
- Proficiency in Bash and/or Python scripting.
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Desirable Skills (Bonus)
It would be advantageous to have experience with:
- Kubernetes administration and Rancher.
- Automated bare-metal provisioning (iPXE or Redfish).
- Secrets management platforms (such as HashiCorp Vault).
- Software licence management (FlexLM/FlexNet).
- CI/CD platforms (Azure DevOps).
- Artifactory administration.
- Slurm Workload Manager.
- Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Azure, and Entra ID administration.
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
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