KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer - Contract
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Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer | 6 Month Contract | Up to £650 per day (Inside IR35) |
Location
Motherwell + travel across Central Belt sites
About the Role
We're recruiting a hands-on Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer to join a major M&A integration programme, taking legacy IT infrastructure and bringing it into a stable, standardised environment.
This is a genuinely hands on, onsite role. You'll be in server rooms and comms rooms day-to-day: racking and cabling hardware, physically relocating equipment between sites, migrating NAS storage, and reconfiguring networking as legacy systems are brought across - all while mentoring an early career in-house team through to handover.
What You'll Be Doing
- Assessing legacy infrastructure and delivering pragmatic, low risk migration plans
- Physically relocating equipment between sites - racking, unracking, structured cabling and rack configuration
- Commissioning new server rooms, including rack population and cable management
- Managing Dell server hardware, Windows Server, and virtualisation (Hyper-V/VMware)
- Executing QNAP NAS storage migrations
- Owning backup and restore using Veeam Backup & Replication, including active support during migrations
- Configuring and troubleshooting Cisco Meraki networking (MX/MS/MR) - firewalls, VLANs, segmentation
- Leading SaaS and tenancy repointing, including identity platform work (AD/Entra ID)
- Acting as a senior escalation point, working closely with project managers, security teams and vendors
- Mentoring junior IT team members ahead of contract handover
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Requirements
This role requires an engineer who can hit the ground running from day one, with strong, current, hands-on experience across the full technology list above - not partial coverage or adjacent tools.
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Two areas are non-negotiable:
- Genuine hands-on Cisco Meraki (MX/MS/MR) deployment experience — not just general networking exposure
- Direct, hands-on experience delivering infrastructure integration as part of an actual M&A programme
Alongside this, you'll need:
- Senior level infrastructure experience in a mid-to-large organisation with complex, bespoke legacy environments
- Experience in a regulated sector (financial services, healthcare, life sciences, defence)
- Full UK driving licence
- Happy working onsite in Motherwell - this is a 5-day-a-week, fully on-site role
How to Apply
Apply now with a CV that clearly evidences your experience against the above, or reach out for a confidential conversation about the role.
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