Infrastructure Engineer (SAN / Active Directory)

Infrastructure Engineer (SAN / Active Directory) Manchester £45,000 - £55,000 + Benefits

Excellent opportunity for an Infrastructure Engineer with hands-on SAN and Active Directory experience to join a growing infrastructure team within a large, multi-site organisation.

This role offers a varied mix of infrastructure project work and technical support across a predominantly on-prem environment. You will work within an established team responsible for supporting a significant national estate covering more than 90 sites and over 1,000 servers.

In this role, you will help support and maintain the organisation's core infrastructure, with a particular focus on SAN storage and Active Directory. You will also contribute to upgrades, migrations, installations and wider infrastructure improvement projects.

The ideal candidate will have practical SAN or enterprise storage experience, a good working knowledge of Active Directory, and be based within a reasonable commuting distance of Manchester.

Experience with VMware, Windows Server, physical infrastructure, networking or cloud platforms would be beneficial, but you are not expected to have experience across every area.

This is a great opportunity for an Infrastructure Engineer who wants to broaden their technical exposure, contribute to meaningful infrastructure projects and develop within a large, complex environment.

The Role

Support and administer SAN and enterprise storage environments

Maintain and troubleshoot Active Directory

Contribute to infrastructure upgrades, migrations and improvement projects

Support physical and virtual server environments

Assist with server builds, installations, patching and lifecycle management

Work alongside experienced infrastructure engineers across a large national estate

Help ensure infrastructure remains secure, stable and reliable

Primarily based from the company's Manchester site

The Person

Hands-on experience supporting SAN or enterprise storage technologies

Good working knowledge of Active Directory

Previous experience in an Infrastructure Engineer, Systems Engineer or similar role

Based within a commutable distance of Manchester

Eligible and willing to obtain SC clearance

Full UK driving licence

Beneficial Experience

VMware administration

Windows Server

Physical servers, racks and data centre environments

Microsoft 365

Azure or AWS

Networking and firewalls

Infrastructure migrations or upgrade projects

Firmware upgrades, patching and lifecycle management

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The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client.

We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.